Parliament amended the rules on the marketing of agricultural land – Puls Biznesu

The amendment also applies to the Law on Land and Mortgage.

The law voted 443 deputies, against were 3, two people abstained.

The Parliament supported a patch club PiS extending the list of entities authorized to purchase agricultural land for national parks. The other three amendments proposed by the PO and PSL were rejected.

Work on the amendments to the permanent record briefly: first reading deputies projects were carried out on Tuesday morning at a meeting of the parliamentary agriculture committee. It was also about changes that will facilitate the implementation of the Act to suspend the sale of real estate of the Agricultural Property of the Treasury, which entered into force on 30 April this year.

The Commission considered the three projects of the club PiS, PO and Modern, finally adopted a draft Law and Justice as the “far-reaching”. All projects related to solving the problem, which arose after the entry into force of the new legislation ws. Marketing of agricultural land in Poland. Banks began to recite the financing of investments on agricultural land, which security would be a mortgage on the agricultural property.

According to the banks to limit the sum of the mortgage to the market value of agricultural property means that they can not adequately protect their receivables arising from loans.

the current rule states that the sum of the mortgage on the agricultural property can not exceed the market value of the property, as determined by a court accompanying the request for mortgage registration in the Land register appraisal, prepared by the valuer.

PiS suggested that the owner of the land together with the bank determined the value of the property under a mortgage, Modern – proposed that this value is defined as one hundred and fifty percent of the future value of agricultural property if the mortgage securing the repayment of a loan granted for investment purposes, and PO – that it was 200 percent.

moreover, the Parliament agreed to exempt from the Act on shaping the agricultural system of agricultural properties that are internal roads. No such record caused problems in selling the property.

With effect from the end of April the rules on trading in agricultural real estate for five years suspend sale of state land; the exception are the property of 2 ha and the other for example. non-agricultural purposes, such as for housing, business and logistics centers or warehouses Storage.

From under the rigors of the law are excluded plots of less than 0.3 hectare ( 30 acres), which means that it will be able to buy them is not a farmer.

Deputy Minister of agriculture Zbigniew Babalski during the second reading of the draft on Tuesday, said that the new rules were discussed, among others, with representatives of the Polish Bank Association, the National Council of Notaries and the Polish Federation of Valuers.

Now the law will be discussed by the Senate.