Federal Law No. 123-FZ introducing amendments to Land Code and to the Federal Law No. 101-FZ on turnover of agricultural land.

Article 36 of Land Code acquires a new wording: “Natural and legal persons that own, use free of charge, carry out economic management or operate edifices, constructions and works situated on the plots of land pertaining to public or municipal property shall acquire the rights to the aforesaid plots of land in conformity with the present Land Code.” Article 10 of the Federal Law No. 101-FZ on turnover of agricultural land shall be supplemented with the following paragraph: “The plots of agricultural land allotted to the religious organizations on condition of permanent (open-ended) tenure in conformity with the Article 28 of Land Code can be conceded in ownership free of charge in cases envisaged by the regional legislation.”