PECULIARITIES OF LAND MANAGEMENT UNDER MARTIAL LAW

Abstract

The land management sector in Ukraine has undergone significant reforms over the past few years. These reforms include lifting the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land, implementing the principle of extraterritoriality for land plot approval and registration, improving the Public Cadastral Map of Ukraine and electronic registers, and introducing other innovations to improve land relations in Ukraine. However, the full-scale war outbreak has created new challenges. Due to the nature of land management, these activities were suspended for almost four months, and electronic databases were closed. The Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Restoring the System of Registration of Lease Rights of Agricultural Land Plots and Improving Legislation on Land Protection" suspended the process of free transfer of land to private ownership. Nevertheless, the functioning of the State Land Cadastre was preserved, and over time, the work of land management organizations resumed. This enabled the establishment of communication between the subjects of land relations, but certain peculiarities in the implementation of land management work under martial law still arose. The authors of the scientific publication identify those peculiarities and problems of land management works during martial law, highlight their causes, and analyze the consequences for the subjects of land relations. Based on the results of the study, the authors define four factors that determine the peculiarities and problems of land management under martial law, namely, technical, legal, organizational, and economic factors.

It is substantiated that insufficient awareness of the land relations participants leads to numerous negative consequences for all parties. At the same time, the established communication between land relations subjects can increase the effectiveness of reforms and significantly reduce the negative consequences, even if imperfect legislation is adopted.