Law on Peasant Farms (No. 841-XII of 1982).

This Law is composed of 18 articles which regulate the establishment, the rights and obligations, property and employment of peasant farms. These are defined in article 1 as being independent subjects with legal personality which produce, process and sell agricultural products on land they own or rent. Peasant farms are a form of free enterprise activity, carried out according to the principles of economic advantage . Interference by state, public or cooperative organizations in the activites of peasant farms is prohibited. Among the obligations of peasant farm members, article 5 lists: soil protection, efficient and productive use of land, prevention of environmetnal degradation. The property of a peasant farm comprises the land, crops, perennials, constructions, cattle, poultry, agricultural machines, means of transport, etc. (art. 7). Property is owned collectively (art. 8). Article 9 broadly regulates employer-employee relations. The remaining articles concern the following: accounting, sales, supplies, funds, taxation, joint activity of peasant farms, state protection against unlawful activities by third parties and responsibility for economic loss, termination of activity.