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Property and Use Rights of Agricultural Land in the Republic of Serbia
Authors: Dusan D. Dabovic
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The main objective of this study is to determine the legal framework for the ownership and use of agricultural land in the Republic of Serbia. The methods used in the study are the formal-legal method, and the text analysis. The used sources and the materials are the Serbian regulations of various levels of the government (republic, autonomous regions, and local self-government), international agreement, as well as scientific works and other documents. In the first part which relates to the Constitutional norms and charges of the various levels of the government, author presented the relevant Constitutional provisions and methods of regulation in this field at the level of autonomous regions and local self-government. The provisions of the law relating to property rights and the right to use agricultural land are discussed in details, as well as regulations governing the planning, protection and management on agricultural land, given that these issues are directly related to the right to use the land for agricultural purposes. In addition, the European integrations of Serbia are considered in the area of agricultural land, that is, the Agreement on Stabilization and Association, concluded with the EU Member States, which is partly related to the issue of ownership of agricultural land.