The Ministries of Environment and Agriculture have repealed the Order of the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Agriculture „On the minimum environmental standards for persons entitled to state support for the acquisition of agricultural land“. This will reduce the administrative burden on both the population and the Environmental Protection Department (DEP), and will make the process of acquiring agricultural land more expeditious and smoother.

This change is due to the expiry of the Government Resolution, which approved the Rules on Compensation of Interest on Loans for the Acquisition of Private Agricultural Land. This decree, which has been declared invalid, stipulated that the Ministry of the Environment, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, was to be entrusted with the task of drawing up and adopting minimum environmental standards which had to be complied with by persons entitled to state support for the acquisition of agricultural land.

The rules on interest compensation for loans for the acquisition of private agricultural land stipulated that natural persons (purchasers) shall submit to the municipality or the Agricultural Loan Guarantee Fund a certificate of compliance with the minimum environmental standards issued by the regional branch of the AAD for the purpose of interest compensation.

The Law on the Acquisition of Agricultural Land, which has been in force until now, did not define the subjects of state support for the acquisition of agricultural land, including the requirement to comply with the minimum standards of environmental protection, hygiene and animal welfare. As long as these rules were in force, the AAD was still obliged to issue certificates of compliance with minimum environmental standards to natural persons.