Area: Okolje in prostor
Competent authority: MF, MzI
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 326
Initiative accepted and completed: '2014-08-29'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2014-04-17'
Initiative published: '2014-04-17'
Initiative submitted: '2014-04-14'
Response from the competent authority: Answer from the Ministry of Agriculture:The
  Agricultural Land Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No.71/11 and
  No.58/12; hereinafter referred to as the "ALA") stipulates that the sale of agricultural
  land, forests or farms shall be carried out in accordance with the procedure and
  in the manner provided for in this Act, unless otherwise provided for by another
  law with regard to the pre-emption right of agricultural land, forests and farms.
  Under the current legislation, the administrative unit is bound by the provisions
  of the ZKZ and the Administrative Procedure Act (Official Gazette of the Republic
  of Slovenia, 24/06, 126/07, 65/08, 8/10, 82/13; hereinafter referred to as the "APA")
  when conducting legal transactions with agricultural land (from the announcement
  of an offer for the sale of agricultural land to the issuance of a final decision).
  The ZKZ provides for a 30-day time limit for the information and acceptance of an
  offer for the sale of agricultural land published on a notice board, starting from
  the day on which the offer was published on the notice board of the administrative
  unit. However, in order for the contract to be validly concluded, pursuant to Article
  22 of the ZKZ, the natural or legal person concluding the transaction with the owner
  of the property must submit an application for approval of the transaction to the
  competent administrative unit. The application for approval of the transaction must
  be submitted no later than 60 days after the expiry of the 30-day deadline for acceptance
  of the offer. Since the decision by which the administrative unit approves or refuses
  to approve the transaction is an administrative procedure, the administrative unit
  is bound by the time limit laid down in the ZUP when issuing the decision. V 222.
  Article 222 of the ZUP provides that, where proceedings are initiated at the request
  of a party or ex officio, if it is in the interest of the party and no special determination
  procedure is required before a decision is taken, the competent authority must issue
  a decision and serve it on the party as soon as possible, but at the latest within
  one month from the date on which it received a complete application for initiation
  of proceedings or from the date on which the ex officio proceedings were initiated.
  In other cases, where proceedings are initiated at the request of a party or ex
  officio, if it is in the interest of the party, the competent authority must issue
  a decision and serve it on the party within two months at the latest.The warning
  you have provided about the length of the procedure for the legal turnover of agricultural
  land will be considered by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, which
  will examine whether it is justified to amend the individual provisions concerning
  the legal turnover of agricultural land at the first possible amendment of the Agricultural
  Land Act.
Text file: 326.txt
Title: Certificate of approval of the transaction
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=326
