The Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations recommends that the Parliament adopt as a basis the bill on amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On personal farming" (re regulating the membership issue)

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
09 February 2015, 10:53

The bill (Reg. No. 1464) suggests establishing that a person receives a membership in personal farming on the day that a respective executive body or local self-government body adopts a decision to allocate a land plot for personal farming, or on the day of concluding a lease of a land plot for the purposes established by law.

Under the bill, members of personal farms can also be family members or relatives that are living together with a person who has been allocated a land plot for personal farming.

It is suggested to establish that people under 16 years can not be members of personal farming.

The bill includes a norm under which if a person terminates their membership in personal farming, they submit applications to a village, township or city council.