Ministerial Decree No. 1262 regarding the validation of the Regulation on the modalities of transfer of agricultural land.

The necessity of transfer of agricultural land from one type into another is substantiated by natural factors and economic expediency of its further use within the stock of land. The transfer of land can be carried out on request of the land tenant forwarded to a local executive body. The transfer is carried out by the departments of the State Committee on Land and Land Survey. Agricultural land comprises arable land, fallow land, land covered by perennial plantations, hayfields and pastures.