Acta academica karviniensia 2014, 14(1):156-165 | DOI: 10.25142/aak.2014.016

ECONOMIC VIEW ON LAND REFORM IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

David Slavata

Vysoká škola báňská-Technická univerzita Ostrava, Ekonomická fakulta, Sokolská třída 33, 701 21 Ostrava, Email:david.slavata@vsb.cz

The article deals with the basic principles of Czech land reform. The Czech land reform has started since 1992 and hasn't been finished till this time. Until today there were redistributed around 600 000 hectares of agriculture land. From 2011 there will start a possibility of selling the land to the ownership of citizens of EU. The main rules of this procedure are presented in this contribution. There are two basic points of the reform- restitution of the land and privatization of land. Both are managed by the state institution called State Land Fund of the Czech Republic. The structure and activities of the institution there are presented as well as the financial aspects of the procedure. In the article there are mentioned all the variants of privatization of land and the possibilities of farming on the land including of using state and European subsidies.

Keywords: land management, land reform, privatization of land, restitution, subsidies

JEL classification: H82, Q15

Received: March 23, 2011; Accepted: September 11, 2013; Published: March 30, 2014  Show citation