The law on "forest amnesty" is adopted

On July 29, 2017 the Federal law No. 280-FZ "About introduction of amendments to separate acts of the Russian Federation for elimination of contradictions in data of the state registers and establishments of belonging of the land plot to a certain category of lands" has been adopted.

This law has made changes to a number of acts, such as Land code of the Russian Federation, Town-planning code of the Russian Federation, Federal law "About Environmental Protection", Federal law "About the State Registration of the Real Estate" and others.

According to the adopted law, in case of existence of contradictions between data of the forest register and data of USSRE and documents of title, accessory of the site will be established on the basis of data of USSSRE and documents confirming the right of the citizen for the earth provided that the rights for the land plot have arisen till January 1, 2016.

In case of a contradiction between data on site belonging to a certain category in USSRE and the data specified in documents of title, the site according to the statement of the owner will be referred to the category defined in the title document if it has been received about day of entry into force of the law.

The law provides an exception of data on the timberland from the forest register if data on them aren't entered in USSRE, their borders cross borders of other forest or land plots and at the same time the lease contract doesn't work for sites.

In addition, the law provides creation of the mechanism on completion of forest plantings. The wood lot surrounded with lands of the settlement joins in the settlement and is subject to the regime of the city woods not less than for a year.

The land plots of agricultural purpose which turn is regulated by the Federal law "About Turnover Land of Agricultural Purpose" in the presence at authorized body of the data confirming the facts of non-use of such land plots on purpose or their uses with violation of the law of the Russian Federation will be carried to lands of forest fund.