Secondary abstract: |
This thesis focuses on the agricultural lands, which are very important for human survival, as they are basis for food production. Therefore, it is of utter importance to protect agricultural lands. One of the important regulations that protect agricultural lands is the Agricultural Land Act, whose objectives are “the conservation and improvement of production potential and growth of agricultural land for food production, sustainable use of fertile land, landscape conservation, and the conservation and rural development” which are defined in Article 1a. In order to achieve these objectives, and due to great importance of agricultural land, the law has interfered with free disposal (ius obutendi) of the land, and for single transfer of ownership prescribed a specific process and defined pre-emption beneficiaries. In order to successfully transfer the ownership rights on agricultural land, any required tax payments must be fulfilled. Tax assessment, and if any tax payment is required, depends on the value of agricultural land and the type of legal transaction. For the final transfer of ownership rights, it must be entered in the land register.
Whether it concerns any type of land use (i.e agricultural, forestry, construction, water management), it is provided by the municipal spatial plan of the municipality within which the land is located. In order to change the purpose of agricultural land, it is therefore necessary to amend the municipal spatial plan. The mere implementation of spatial planning is defined by the Spatial Planning Act, in which it is possible to detect the objectives of the Aarhus Convention. The objectives laid down in Article 1 of the Aarhus Convention, which was also signed by Slovenia, are that every person has the right to live in an environment that is stimulating for their health and well-being, and to ensure the public right to information, a right in decision-making, and a right to legal protection in environmental matters. |