Sekundarni povzetek: |
Agricultural land, forest, and farm transactions in the Republic of Slovenia are subjected to a system that limits owners in a simple legal transfer of property rights. Due to the protection of public interest, which arises from the influence of appropriate cultivation of agricultural and forestry land on the successful agricultural and forestry activities, and the sufficient self-supply and sovereignty of the country, the legislator, under constitutional power, has standardized the field through the Agricultural Land Act. The Act determines an obligatory administrative procedure that must be followed by sellers, buyers, and administrative authorities in the process of transferring property rights. Special laws in the field of forests and protected farms, which determine specifics in the procedures of regular sales of this type of land, have been additionally standardized. The foundation of procedural regulation is represented by lawful pre-emptive rights, which prevent the owner from having a simple choice of a different contracting party, i.e., the buyer. These preemptive rights are exercised by an institute of tender reception under a statutory deadline. The tender is made public, under the initiative of the seller, by the administrative unit on the portal e-Uprava and on the administrative unit’s bulletin board. The further execution of legal transactions with the recipient of the tender depends on the approval of the legal transaction, which is given along with the decision by the administrative unit in the area in which the land is located and is continued by checking if all the regulatory rules are complied. The transaction is then granted to the receiver, which is, in terms of public interest, the most suitable future owner. This is the only way that provides the buyer an entry into the Land Registry and, by it, a legal transfer of property rights for agricultural lands, forests, and farms. A relatively straightforward process, based on the principle of proportionality and legitimacy, constitutionally permissible interference with private property and the pursuit of the public interest, in practice has certain shortcomings, which are identified in administrative and judicial practice, mainly due to legal loopholes resulting from the generality and rigidity of the legal regulation of the field in question. In the master’s thesis we have primarily drawn attention to the importance of a thorough assessment of the appropriateness and constitutionality of the currently applicable legal limitation of property in relation to the purpose which is pursued by such regulation. We have also identified and presented the unresolved issues, which arise in the process of selling, and possible improvements, which, in the future, could be appropriate in ensuring an economically, ecologically and socially more effective agriculture. |