Importance of an Integrated Approach to Reformation of Legal Provisions That Govern the Transfer to Land Plots of Land Shares Allocated 30 Years Ago

The purpose of the article is to investigate to what extent the decision to abolish unclaimed shares is provided by the current rules for surveying plots allocated to the account of shares. The privatization of farmland assigned to collective farms and state farms carried out in the early 1990s led to the formation of common shared ownership of these lands. After 20 years, almost a third of these lands had the status of unclaimed (unclaimed land shares). Over the past 10 years, municipalities have carried out significant work and about half of such shares have passed into municipal ownership on the basis of court decisions. From 2025, all other unclaimed shares will become municipal by virtue of the law, and within a year they must be allocated to land plots. This requires, among other things, land use planning support. The adjustments made over the past 20 years to federal legislation regulating the turnover of agricultural land are characterized by complexity. This also applies to the land use planning provision that implements the relevant norms. From 2025, fundamentally new provisions on the status of unclaimed shares will come into force, also requiring land use planning support, but this time no corresponding amendments have been made to special legislation. It is proposed to make appropriate adjustments to the rules for allocating abolished unclaimed shares to land plots.