Federal Law No. 87-FZ introducing amendments and addenda to the Federal Law No. 101-FZ on turnover of agricultural land and to the Federal Law No. 78-FZ on land use planning.

The following amendments and addenda must be introduced to the Federal Law No. 101-FZ: 1) Sub-item 2 of the item 3 of the Article 1 acquires a new wording “to establish maximum size of the area of agricultural land situated within the boundaries of a single municipal unit that can be owned by a single natural person and (or) by a single legal person”; 2) Item 2 of the Article 4 acquires a new wording “Maximum size of area of agricultural land situated within the boundaries of a single municipal unit that can be owned by single natural person and (or) by a single legal person must be of no less than 10 per cent of the total area of agricultural land at the moment of transaction.” 3) Article 17 of the Federal Law No. 78-FZ must be supplemented with the following wording “The location of the boundaries of the plots of land destined for subsidiary small-holding, gardening, truck farming and production of agricultural commodities can be determined with the use of data of state land cadastre and territorial land use planning documentation.”