Nowa ustawa o kształtowaniu ustroju rolnego – uwagi do projektu Polskiego Stronnictwa Ludowego

The draft bill on shaping of the agricultural system which is to repalce the current version of the Act of 11 April 2013 was submitted to the Parliament by Polish People’s Party in in July 2014. Beyond aims listed in the article 1 of the Bill, undoubtedly it is also to create more effective than the present ones mechanisms counteracting the possibility of acquisition of agricultural lands by foreigners. Planned arrangements are partly based on the current Act of 2003 and there are also new instruments proposed, such as obligatory mediating of Agricultural Property Agency in the sales of every agricultural property irrespectively of its size, as well as prohibition of sale and encumbrance of the agricultural property purchased by tender for 10 year of the date of purchase. The proposals are ill-conceived from the agricultural activity practice point of view and the limitations go far beyond the nature of property right, which is contrary to the Constitution.