Changes in the New Land Law (Review of the Provisions of the Federal Law of June 23 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterations to Russian Federation Land Code and Other Russian Federation Legislative Acts)

The article deals with the review of the Federal Law of June 23, 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterations to the Russian Federation Land Code and other Russian Federation Legislative Acts, which is to be enacted March 1, 2015. The authors have carried out a detailed analysis of significant changes in the Russian Federation Land Code, the Russian Federation Civil Code and other legislative acts. These changes target a number of tasks set by the Russian Federation President to harmonize the Land Code with the Russian Federation Civil Code and the legislation on urban development, increase the transparency of the procedures as to land relations, exclude collisions between federal laws and clauses causing corruption. The authors have focused on the new order of arranging and providing land plots which are in state or municipal ownership, new institutions of land legislation and transitional rules provided by the Federal Law of June 23, 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterations to the Russian Federation Land Code and other Russian Federation Legislative Acts, stress legal features of norms pivotal to arrange enforcing and court practice. The authors express the opinion on the consequences of the alterations both for public authorities, legal entities and natural persons, as the land resources will be easier to get into possession for the country's population including benefit-entitled citizens and investors. The paper also justifies the causes for the key alterations, studies case practice showing some controversial issues which the new legislative norms may facilitate. The authors specify norms and the laws of the Russian Federation subjects which may be adopted to implement the Federal Law of June 23, 2014 No 171-FZ On Making Alterations to the Russian Federation Land Code and other Russian Federation Legislative Acts.