Decree on the transfer of land of the National Land Fund to the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic (No. 240 of 1996)

GOVERNMENT DECREE Bishkek, House of the Government May 27, 1996, # 240 On the transfer of land of the National Land Fund to the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic dated November 3, 1995, «On measures for further development and government support to the land and agrarian reform in the Kyrgyz Republic», the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic dated March 25, 1996, # 130 «On additional objectives on further development and government support to the land and agrarian reform», the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic decrees: 1. To transfer the land of the National Land Fund to the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic (hereafter - Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund). 2. To ensure that allocation of land plots from the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund is made for: • expansion of rural settlements in accordance with the Master Plans of their development; • creation and operation of seed-growing, livestock-breeding, testing and selecting, experimental farms and state variety testing entities; • establishment of special agricultural entities to grow agricultural crops by the Decision of the Kyrgyz Republic Government; • sale of rights to use land plots at the auctions; • leasing out land to farmers; • citizens, who worked and lived outside the farm (including those who come from this farm) and came to the farm for permanent residence before July 1, 1996, are entitled to an average farm land share; • other purposes provided for by the Decision of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. 3. To approve the attached Regulations: • on procedures of land allocation from the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund for the expansion of the territories of rural settlements; • on allocation of land from the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund to the seed-growing, livestock-breeding, testing and selecting, experimental farms and state variety testing entities. 4. Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic, State Agency of Land Management and Land Resources under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Architecture and Construction, local state administrations are to identify, before July 1, 1996, areas and boundaries of land allocated from the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund for the expansion of rural settlements. 5. Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic, State Agency of Land Management and Land Resources under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic in collaboration with local state administrations are to identify areas and boundaries of land plots of the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund for: • creation and operation of seed-growing, livestock-breeding, testing and selecting, experimental farms and state variety testing entities (until July 1, 1996); • establishment of special agricultural entities to grow agricultural crops (until July 1, 1996); • sale of rights to use land plots at the auctions (until September 1, 1996); • leasing out land to farmers (until October 1, 1996). 6. Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Defence of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic and oblast state administrations are to consider, till September 1, 1996, an issue on possibility of the establishment of specialised agricultural entities on the land of the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund. 7. In view of abolishment of the National Land Fund and according to Point 6 of the Regulations on the National Land Fund approved by the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic dated May 19, 1994, # 345 «On approval of the Regulations on the National Land Fund», to ensure that leaseholders are entitled to use the leased land from the National Land Fund until the completion of 1996 harvesting operations, but not later than October 1, 1996. 8. Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic in collaboration with local administrations, by September 1, 1996, are to submit Regulations for approval by the Kyrgyz Republic Government on procedures and conditions for leasing out land plots of the Agricultural Land Redistribution Fund. 9. To commission the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic, State Agency of Land Management and Land Resources under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic in collaboration with local state administrations, until July 1, 1996, to check the target use of land, allocated from the former National Land Fund to establish dairy farms, and by the results of checking-up to submit a proposal to the Kyrgyz Republic Government. 10. To exclude the words: «with the adjoining fund» in Paragraph 1, Point 1 of the Regulations on procedures for fixing a land share and issuing certificates enabling to use a land share, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic dated August 22, 1994, # 632, and the words: «including the adjoining land fund» in Paragraph 2, Point 6 of the Regulations on reorganisation of the agricultural enterprises, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic dated August 22, 1994, # 632. 11. Control over the implementation of this Decree is charged to B.T.Talgarbekov, Prime-Vice Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic. Prime-Minister A.Djumagulov Approved by the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic dated May 27, 1996, # 240