The Cabinet of Ministers has removed restrictions on the acquisition of land for participants of the anti-terrorist operation. Such a decision was made during the meeting of the government on January 17 this year, after considering the relevant request of the head of the UKROP political council Taras Batenko to the Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.
This is the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers “On amending the strategy for improving the management mechanism in the field of using and protecting agricultural properties of state owned land and their disposal”.
The document establishes the primary right to provide the ATO participants with land plots, regardless of the total area of land for which the right to lease was sold. In this way, the government has lifted an artificial limitation on the registration of land plots for the ATO participants, according to which the military had previously had the right only to 25% of the total land area, which had been sold during the previous period at open auctions by the relevant departments of the State Geocadastre.
“At its time, the government created an artificial obstacle for ATO participants in exercising their constitutional right to privatize land. Finally, Ukrainian defenders will get the widest possible access to the guaranteed legal benefits. Hopefully, the state will finally show its respect for those who defend its borders,” said Taras Batenko.
The MP has noted that amendments to the Strategy will significantly accelerate the development of permits for technical documentation. At the same time, a much bigger number of soldiers will be able to exercise the right to privatize land. According to the government, since the introduction of the initiative to provide land to the ATO participants, the relevant applications to the bodies of the State Geocadastre have been submitted by more than 187 thousand people.
More than 24 thousand applications were filed after the adoption of the Strategy in July 2017. Since then, the state has satisfied only over 6.5 thousand appeals, or 27% of the total number of the filed applications.
