The BRDO suggests to simplify the land plot purchasing / leasing procedure and reduce the terms of registration. The Construction Sector Head Olena Shuliak said about it during the Ukrainian Building Community “Land and Freedom: Actual issues” business breakfast.
According to her, business surveys showed that land issues are one of the most urgent, as now the procedure of selling or getting the land from community property is rather non-transparent, costly and bureaucratic.
BRDO experts estimated that this procedure takes almost 9 months and sometimes even 2-3 years. During this time, businessmen have to register about 55 documents and meet with officials and a land surveyor about 17 times.
Olena Shuliak thinks that simplifying this procedure according to the BRDO proposal will allow to reduce the time required for registration to 2.5 months.
For this, it is necessary to act in two stages. The first one provides making selective amendments that can be done quickly to the land legislation within one-two months and without serious consequences for all procedure parties (both governmental authorities and business representatives). The second one is working out and implementing comprehensive changes, which require at least 1 year to be conducted.
BRDO experts participated in drafting the law, which allows shortening the procedure of getting a land plot from communal lands.
Particularly, the draft law allows copying cartographic materials submitted for getting permissions to develop land-planning projects on land allotment independently and free of charge.
It is also proposed to make land plot allocation permits an optional condition. An economic entity will be able to develop a land-planning project on land allocation and submit it for approval optionally.
Besides, it is proposed to abolish permits for conducting an expert money valuation of land plots while selling it, which are unnecessary permissive documents.
“We hope that the sufficient political will allow to deracinate bureaucracy in the land sector”, Olena Shuliak said.