Legal regulation of the lease of land plots from agricultural land under the legislation of Russia and foreign countries: comparative legal analysis

The purpose of this article is to develop recommendations for improving the legal regulation of the lease of land plots from the composition of agricultural land in the Russian Federation. To achieve this goal, it seems necessary as tasks to identify the problems of legal regulation of land lease relations in the Russian Federation, to conduct a comparative analysis of Russian and foreign legislation governing the lease of land plots, including from the composition of agricultural land, to identify shortcomings and positive experience in this area legal regulation in the Russian Federation and foreign states.
The purpose and objectives of the work determined the methodology of this study, which is based on a number of methods, in particular: comparative legal, concrete statistical, formal logical, dialectical method of cognition of social phenomena and processes.
As a result of the study, the author formulated a number of conclusions, as well as some recommendations regarding the improvement of Russian legislation in this area. In particular, both Russian and foreign legislation establishes the obligations of tenants for the protection of agricultural land, the rational use of land. But in the EU member states, in our opinion, the state plays a more active role in regulating land relations, providing for fairly strict requirements for the lease of land plots from agricultural land: the tenant must have an agricultural education, experience in agriculture, live in these areas, to have the necessary financial resources for agricultural production. The measures of economic incentives for farmers-efficient land users, enshrined in foreign legislation, also mean a lot. It is proposed to introduce a number of changes into Russian legislation, taking into account foreign experience in regulating land lease relations, which will contribute to the effective use and protection of agricultural land leased.

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