Sale-purchase of agricultural land located outside built-up areas / Gruia Dufaut Law Office
31/03/2021

Further to the approval of Law no. 175/2020, in force since October 13, 2020, amended and supplemented by the GEO no. 203 of November 23, 2020, the legislation regulating the purchase and sale of agricultural land located outside builtup areas has been subject to some significant changes lately.
The Law no. 175/2020, amending and supplementing the Law no. 17/2014 on the sale of agricultural land located outside built-up areas comes, indeed, with certain restrictions related to the preemption rights in case of transfer of ownership, to agricultural activity and the regime of agricultural land.
Hereinafter, there is a summary of the main changes brought by the Law no. 175/2020, amended by the GEO no 203/2020 and the provisions of the Law no. 246/2020 on the use, conservation and protection of soil. Our member Gruia Dufaut Law Office made this interesting study: