Act No 287 / 2025 Coll.
Act amending Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., on the State Land Office and on the amendment of certain related laws, as amended, and certain other laws
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of 2 July 2025
amending Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., on the State Land Office and amending certain related laws, as amended, and certain other laws
Parliament has decided on this law of the Czech Republic:
Amendment to the State Land Authority Act
Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., on the State Land Office and on the amendment of certain related laws, as amended by Act No. 256 / 2013 Coll., Act No. 280 / 2013 Coll., Legislative measure No. 340 / 2013 Coll., Legislative measure No. 344 / 2013 Coll., Act No. 250 / 2014 Coll., Act No. 185 / 2016 Coll., Act No. 225 / 2017 Coll., Act No. 295 / 2017 Coll., Act No. 229 / 2019 Coll., Act No. 481 / 2020 Coll., Act No. 261 / 2021 Coll., Act No. 183 / 2021 Coll., Act No. 36 / 2021 Coll., Act No. 299 / 2021 Coll., Act No. 325 / 2023 Coll., Act No. 412 / 2023 Coll., Act No. 412 / 2023 Coll., Act No. 183 / 2024 Coll., Act No. 36 / 2025 Coll.
1. In Section 1, paragraphs 8 to 10 are added, including footnotes 41 and 42:
"(8) The State Land Authority shall monitor the erosion of agricultural land. The Ministry sets out by decree a binding procedure for monitoring the erosion of agricultural land, defining responsibility for reporting and recording the occurrence of an event.
(9) The State Land Authority shall, through monitoring the erosion of agricultural land, assess compliance with the conditions of the soil management standard in a way that reduces the risk of soil degradation and erosion, including taking account of slope slope, pursuant to Government Regulation No 73 / 2023 Coll., laying down rules on cross-compliance of payments to farmers, and the directly applicable European Union41). It shall cooperate with the State Agricultural Intervention Fund42.
(10) The State Land Authority assesses, in the case of an applicant for direct payments under the directly applicable European Union41) the crop belt rotation project for the erosion-vulnerable part of the soil block registered in the land use register according to userrelations (42) and gives confirmation of this project to this applicant. It shall cooperate with the State Agricultural Intervention Fund42.
(41) Regulation (EU) 2021 / 2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 2021 laying down support rules for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the common agricultural policy (CAP strategic plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1305 / 2013 and (EU) No 1307 / 2013, as amended.
42) Act No. 256 / 2000 Coll., on the State Agricultural Intervention Fund and amending certain other laws (Act on the State Agricultural Intervention Fund), as amended. Act No. 252 / 1997 Coll., on Agriculture, as amended. '
2. In Article 2 (6), after the second sentence, the phrase "If a branch for the territory is not established, the Regional Land Authority shall decide."
3. In Article 3 (6), "10a or 10b 'is replaced by" or 10a';
4. In Article 4 (4), after the words "Act No. 229 / 1991 Coll., as amended," the words "or land intended for the implementation of common facilities under Act No. 139 / 2002 Coll., as amended," and the last sentence is replaced by the words "Rules for the calculation of annual rent for the use of land under the jurisdiction of the State Land Office, which constitutes or belongs to the Agricultural Land Fund, shall be laid down in a decree including the production areas of the Ministry of Agriculture. The annual rent shall be fixed at the percentage of the average price of agricultural land in the cadastral territory established under the Special Regulation (25); the decree sets out the percentage rate per production area and the conditions for derogation from the rates thus determined. ';
5. The following Section 4a is inserted after Section 4, including footnote 43:
(1) The State Land Office shall, as a priority, smuggle the land with which it is responsible, to a farmer who fulfils the conditions for granting additional income support for young farmers under another legislation (43) (hereinafter referred to as the "young farmer").
(2) If a plot of land which is not smuggled or is smuggled for an indefinite period and the period of the plot is at least 10 years, the young farmer, the State Land Office, shall issue an invitation offering the item of land.
(3) The invitation to tender shall specify:
(a) details of the land to be smuggled;
(b) the price of the smelting fee determined on the basis of the Decree pursuant to Article 4 (4);
(c) the time limit for the submission of tenders; and
(d) the address of the land office designated to take over the tender.
(4) A young farmer (hereinafter referred to as "the applicant ') may report to the invitation which:
(a) operate on land in the same or neighbouring cadastral territory;
(b) have access to the land to be smuggled in; and
(c) is not late in carrying out its debt towards a State with which the State with which the State Land Office is responsible is liable.
(5) In the tender for the plot of land, the tenderer shall indicate in addition to the general terms of the application:
(a) data certifying that the tenderer is a young farmer;
(b) identification of the land on which it is entitled to farm;
(c) identification of the land to be smuggled;
(d) a contract to ensure access to the land to be smuggled in or another document certifying that fact; and
(e) information on the integrity referred to in paragraph 4 (c).
(6) If, within the time limit set by the invitation, only one tenderer applies or if only one tenderer meets the conditions laid down, the State Property Office shall conclude a smuggling contract with that tenderer. If, within the time limit set by the invitation, more than one tenderer who fulfils the conditions laid down is applied for, the Land Land Office shall organise a public tender on the basis of which it shall conclude a smuggling contract with the tenderer offering the highest price.
(7) Before concluding a smuggling contract under this provision, the State Property Office shall terminate the existing smuggling agreement in respect of the smuggled land. If the existing smuggler shows an interest in continuing the management of the land which is not affected by the offer of the pacht under this provision, the State Property Office shall adjust the subject matter of the original smuggler contract with the existing smuggler to those parcels.
(8) The procedure laid down in paragraphs 1 to 7 shall not apply to parcels which are smuggled to a young farmer and to parcels for which the end of the patch would constitute a breach of the terms of the grant or of the repayable financial assistance.
43) Paragraph 26 (1) and (2) of Decree No 83 / 2023 Coll., on the conditions for granting direct payments to farmers, as amended. "
6. In Article 6 (1) (b) (1), the words "to the municipalities or regions' shall be inserted after the words" Article 3 (2) ';
7. in Article 6 (1) (b) (3), the words "real estate according to Article 17 (3) of Act No. 229 / 1991 Coll., as amended," are replaced by the words "real estate."
8. in Paragraph 6 (1) (b) (4), the words "zoning office" shall be replaced by the words "municipal authority of the municipality with extended competence as zoning office."
9. in Article 6 (1) (g), the word "or" shall be deleted;
10. In Article 6, at the end of paragraph 1, the dot is replaced by a comma and the following points (i) and (j) are added:
"(i) land forming a reserve of state land pursuant to Article 3 (1) (a) acquired by exchange or purchased pursuant to Article 3 (2) for the purpose of land modification; or
(j) agricultural parcels intended for transport, water or energy infrastructure or strategic investment buildings as referred to in Annexes 1 to 3 to Act No. 416 / 2009 Coll., on speeding up construction of strategically important infrastructure, as amended. '
11. in Paragraph 6 (2):
"(2) At the request of the State Land Authority, the competent administrative authority shall inform in writing within 30 days whether the land to be transferred under this Act, pursuant to Act No. 229 / 1991 Coll., as amended, or Act No. 44 / 1988 Coll., as amended, is not excluded from the transfer under paragraph 1. In the event of a discrepancy between the facts disclosed, the State Land Authority shall verify the transferability of the land by its own activities, provided that the fact can be ascertained from publicly available sources. In the case of a transfer of built-up land, the communication referred to in paragraph 1 (c), (e) and (f) shall not be required. ';
12. in Article 7 (1) (e), the words "green or" shall be replaced by the words "green," and the words "or to establish or extend a public burial ground" shall be inserted after the words "measure."
13. in Paragraph 7 (1), point (e) is replaced by the dot and point (f) is deleted;
14. in Article 7 (2) (a), the word "land" shall be inserted after the word "or" land. "
15. in Article 7 (2) (b):
"(b) a strip of land adjacent on both sides to the local communications or special purpose communications body referred to in (a) which serves the purposes of protecting and maintaining the local communications or special purpose communications referred to in (a) with which it is competent to manage when the communication is located in the established territory of the municipality;"
16. in Article 7, the following point (c) is added at the end of paragraph 2:
"(c) land forming a road protection zone (17) related to local communications as referred to in (a) with which it is responsible.";
17. in Articles 8 (1), 8 (2), 10 (a) (2) and 20 (6), the words "price regulation" are replaced by the words "law on the valuation of assets."
18. in Paragraph 8 (1), the words "green or" shall be replaced by the words "green," and the words "or to establish or extend a public burial site" shall be added at the end of the text of the paragraph.
19. in Article 9, at the end of point (c), the dot is replaced by a comma and the following point (d) is added:
"(d) municipality or county."
20. in Article 10 (1) (b), the words "or in a stoppable area" shall be inserted after the word "territory."
21.
22. § 10c, including the title reads:
Transfer of agricultural parcels in parallel
Where the persons referred to in Articles 7 (1) and (3), 10 (1) to (5) or 10 (a) request the transfer of the agricultural parcel at the same time, the applicant referred to in Article 10 (3) and (4) and the applicant referred to in Article 10 (5) shall be satisfied first and foremost, the applicant referred to in Article 10a and finally the person referred to in Article 7. ';
23. In Paragraph 13 (1), the word "land 'is replaced by the words" land with an area of up to 1 000 m2, which has been offered in vain three times in public tender pursuant to § 11a of Act No. 229 / 1991 Coll., as amended, and "and the words' and which have not been transferred in accordance with the procedure set out in § 12 'are deleted.
24. In Article 13 (4), the words, "15, if it is a provision relating to lien," shall be deleted.
25. In Paragraph 13 (5), at the end of the first sentence, the words "or established if this price is higher than the normal price 'shall be added.
26. In Paragraph 13, the following paragraph 6 is inserted after paragraph 5:
"(6) In the event of a repeated tender for the most appropriate tender, the minimum price declared may be lower than the normal price or determined price. ';
Paragraphs 6 and 7 shall be renumbered paragraphs 7 and 8.
27. in Article 13 (8), the words "or discovered" shall be inserted after the words "usual," the number "20 000" shall be replaced by "500 000" and the words "in the event of its closure" shall be deleted;
28. In Paragraph 14 (1), the word "at least 'shall be inserted after the word" to' and at the end of the text of the paragraph the words "or at a price found to be higher than the normal price 'shall be added.
29. in Paragraph 14 (2), the first sentence is deleted;
30. In Article 14 (3), the word "part 'is replaced by" advance payment' and "at least 10% ';
31. Article 15 shall be deleted, including the title.
32. in Article 16 (4), the words "State Property Office" shall be replaced by the words "acquirer together with the State Property Office."
33.Paragraph 19 (1) reads as follows:
"(1) The failure to pay the administrative fee for the application to initiate the procedure for the admission to the property register by the acquirer pursuant to Article 16 (4) constitutes grounds for the withdrawal of the State Land Office from the transfer contract. For the use of agricultural land for the period up to its effective date, the State Land Office shall be entitled to reimbursement of one twelfth of the annual rent referred to in Article 4 (4) for each month started. '
34. In Article 19 (2), the word "purchase 'is deleted and the words" transfer of agricultural land' are added at the end of the text of the paragraph.
35. Paragraph 19 (3), including footnote 33, is deleted.
36. In Article 21 (4), the words "and other administrative decisions' and the words" by 'are replaced by the words "by'.
Transitional provisions
1. Proceedings initiated pursuant to Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., as effective before the date of entry into force of the Act, shall be completed pursuant to Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., as effective before the date of entry into force of the Act, with the exception of the procedure under Sections 10 and 10a which shall be completed pursuant to Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., as effective from the date of entry into force of the Act.
2. The legal ratios relating to lien and pre-purchase law arising in connection with purchase contracts concluded pursuant to Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., as effective before the date of entry into force of this Act, are governed by Article 15 of Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., as effective before the date of entry into force of that Act. This also applies to restrictions associated with them.
3. Prolongation with payment of the purchase price or repayment of more than 30 days in the sale of agricultural land pursuant to § 10 to 13 of Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., as effective before the date of entry into force of this Act, is governed by § 19 of Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., as effective before the date of entry into force of the Act, the use of agricultural land from the date of conclusion of the purchase contract until the date of entry into force of the Act is entitled to reimbursement of one twelfth of the annual rent pursuant to § 4 (4) of Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., as effective from the date of entry into force of the Act, for each month of entry into force of that Act.
4. For land where there is a change in the data held in the cadastral property register of the Bonized Soil Organic Units by taking such data from the basic register of territorial identification, addresses and properties following their registration in that base register pursuant to Article II (1) of Act No. 229 / 2019 Coll., amending Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., on the State Land Office and on the amendment of certain related laws, as amended, and other related laws, a transitional period of 3 years shall apply from the date of entry into force of this Act. During this transitional period, for the management, where one of the relevant criteria is the indication of the soil-protected organic unit, the relevant indication of the soil-protected organic unit held in the property register prior to the change in the data referred to in the first sentence shall be the one.
Amendment of the Land Adjustment Act and Land Authorities
Act No. 139 / 2002 Coll., as amended, Act No. 53 / 2004 Coll., Act No. 186 / 2006 Coll., Act No. 227 / 2009 Coll., Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., Act No. 280 / 2013 Coll., Act No. 185 / 2016 Coll., Act No. 193 / 2017 Coll., Act No. 225 / 2017 Coll., Act No. 295 / 2017 Coll., Act No. 481 / 2020 Coll., Act No. 284 / 2021 Coll., Act No. 152 / 2023 Coll. and Act No. 36 / 2025 Coll., is amended as follows:
1. In Paragraph 1, the words "the Regional Land Authority or 'shall be inserted after the words" and to the activity it carries out'.
2. In Article 8, the following paragraph 5 is inserted after paragraph 4:
"(5) The personnel of the State Land Office shall be authorised to enter or enter the land in question in order to verify the necessity of updating the soil-protected ecological units and to conduct field research. This shall be notified to the owner or other person concerned in writing at least 10 days before the entry or entry into the land. ';
Paragraphs 5 to 7 shall be renumbered paragraphs 6 to 8.
3. In Paragraph 8 (8), "6 'is replaced by" 7'.
Amendment of the Act on the treatment of property relations with land and other agricultural assets
In Act No. 229 / 1991 Coll., on the modification of property relations to land and other agricultural property, as amended by Act No. 42 / 1992 Coll., Act No. 93 / 1992 Coll., Act No. 39 / 1993 Coll., Act No. 183 / 1993 Coll., Act No. 254 / 2011 Coll., Act No. 75 / 2012 Coll., Act No. 30 / 1994 Coll., Act No. 139 / 2002 Coll., Act No. 320 / 2002 Coll., Act No. 253 / 2003 Coll., Act No. 354 / 2004 Coll., Act No. 200 / 2005 Coll.
Transitional provision
If the non-payment of the allocation price pursuant to Article 23 (3) has not been paid in full or in part by 31 December 2024, it shall be deemed to have been entitled to payment of the non-payment to the extent that it has not been paid, unless it is the subject of pending legal or enforcement proceedings on that date, or has already begun to exercise the lien provided for in the provision of such non-payment. The recognition of the debt already made for the non-payment of the allocation price pursuant to Paragraph 23 (3) and the contractual arrangements for the payment of the non-payment of the allocation price shall not be affected by that provision. ';
Amendment of the Nature and Landscape Conservation Act
In Article 61a (2) of Act No. 114 / 1992 Coll., on Nature and Landscape Conservation, as amended by Act No. 36 / 2025 Coll., the last sentence is replaced by the sentence "The annual remuneration for the use or consumption of land within the jurisdiction of the Agency's management or administration of the national park, which constitutes or belongs to the agricultural land fund, is 2,2% of the price of land under the Decree governing the average basic prices of agricultural land, unless otherwise agreed between the Agency or the administration of the national park and the tenant."
Amendment to the Act on the Protection of the Agricultural Soil Fund
Act No. 334 / 1992 Coll., on the Protection of the Agricultural Soil Fund, as amended by Act No. 10 / 1993 Coll., Act No. 98 / 1999 Coll., Act No. 132 / 2000 Coll., Act No. 76 / 2002 Coll., Act No. 320 / 2002 Coll., Act No. 444 / 2005 Coll., Act No. 149 / 2006 Coll., Act No. 222 / 2006 Coll., Act No. 225 / 2008 Coll., Act No. 403 / 2010 Coll., Act No. 544 / 2009 Coll., Act No. 444 / 2009 Coll., Act No. 41 / 2009 Coll., Act No. 184 / 2016 Coll., Act No. 183 / 2017 Coll., Act No. 375 / 2011 Coll., Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., Act No. 64 / 2014 Coll., Act No. 41 / 2015 Coll.
1. In Paragraph 3d (1), the part of the sentence behind the semicolon, including the semicolon, is deleted.
2. Paragraph 3d (2) reads as follows:
"(2) Paragraph 1 shall not apply if:
(a) the garden,
(b) land of less than 2 000 m2;
(c) land which consists of one functional unit with a real estate construction owned by the acquirer; or
(d) land which is a common part of the immovable property divided into units or is linked by law to the ownership of the unit. "
3. In Section 3d, the following paragraph 3 is added:
"(3) Paragraph 1 shall no longer apply if acquisition takes place:
(a) owned by a citizen, a natural person residing or a legal person domiciled in a Member State of the European Union, of the European Economic Area, of Switzerland or of a State for which there is something else under an international treaty which the Czech Republic is bound;
(b) under a common matrimonial property regime where one of the spouses fulfils the conditions laid down in (a);
(c) inheritance,
(d) by a relative in a series of direct, siblings or husbands; or
(e) in exchange for other agricultural land on the territory of the Czech Republic, the price of which does not exceed the price of the original agricultural land established under the asset valuation law. "
Amendment to the Geometry Act
In Section 4b of Act No. 200 / 1994 Coll., on Geometry and on the amendment and addition of certain laws related to its implementation, as amended by Act No. 47 / 2020 Coll. and Act No. 202 / 2023 Coll., paragraph 11 is added:
"(11) The Office shall manage, control and methodically unify the performance of regional authorities in the field of the management of digital technical maps of regions."
Amendment to the Agriculture Act
Act No. 2 / 1997 Coll., on Agriculture, as amended by Act No. 62 / 2000 Coll., Act No. 441 / 2005 Coll., Act No. 444 / 2005 Coll., Act No. 64 / 2014 Coll., Act No. 179 / 2014 Coll., Act No. 267 / 2006 Coll., Act No. 157 / 2009 Coll., Act No. 409 / 2006 Coll., Act No. 73 / 2011 Coll., Act No. 95 / 2009 Coll.
1. In Article 3 (7), the words "and 8 'are deleted.
2. Paragraph 3 (8) is deleted.
Paragraphs 9 to 12 shall be renumbered paragraphs 8 to 11.
3. In Paragraph 3 (10), "paragraph 10 'is replaced by" paragraph 9'.
4. In Article 4c (5), "Article 3 (10) 'is replaced by" Article 3 (9)'.
5. The following § 4fa is inserted after § 4f, which, including the title and footnotes No 88 and No 89:
Implementation of checks on social cross compliance requirements
(1) The competent control authority shall, on the basis of its competence to carry out the checks and supervision provided for in the Specific Regulation 88), notify the Fund at least once a year of the results of the checks provided for in the European Union89), on the basis of which penalties have been imposed by decision for infringement of the provisions of the legislation referred to in the Implementing Regulation issued pursuant to § 2b (2) or § 2c (5).
(2) The competent control authority shall simultaneously provide copies of the final decisions referred to in paragraph 1 in the notification to the Fund.
(3) The Ministry shall provide the competent control authority (88) referred to in paragraph 1 from the database maintained pursuant to Article 3 (9) with data on applicants of the year in question for the purpose of submitting the notification.
88) Act No. 251 / 2005 Coll., on Labour Inspection, as amended.
89) Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2021 / 2115 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as amended. Article 87 and 88 (1) of Regulation (EU) 2021 / 2116 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as amended. ';
Amendment of the Act on the State Agricultural Intervention Fund
In Article 7 (3) of Act No. 256 / 2000 Coll., on the State Agricultural Intervention Fund and on the amendment of certain other laws (Act on the State Agricultural Intervention Fund), as amended by Act No. 128 / 2003 Coll., Act No. 41 / 2004 Coll., Act No. 250 / 2014 Coll., Act No. 128 / 2004 Coll., Act No. 237 / 2004 Coll., Act No. 482 / 2004 Coll., Act No. 441 / 2005 Coll., Act No. 130 / 2014 Coll., Act No. 342 / 2006 Coll., Act No. 457 / 2011 Coll., Act No. 18 / 2012 Coll., Act No. 281., Act No. 281 / 2012 Coll., Act No. 281.
Amendment of the cadastral law
Act No. 256 / 2013 Coll., on cadastral property (cadastral law), as amended by Act No. 86 / 2015 Coll., Act No. 139 / 2015 Coll., Act No. 318 / 2015 Coll., Act No. 106 / 2016 Coll., Act No. 298 / 2016 Coll., Act No. 460 / 2016 Coll., Act No. 183 / 2017 Coll., Act No. 225 / 2017 Coll., Act No. 163 / 2020 Coll., Act No. 481 / 2020 Coll., Act No. 261 / 2021 Coll., Act No. 371 / 2021 Coll., Act No. 240 / 2022 Coll., Act No. 251 / 2023 Coll. and Act No. 263 / 2024 Coll., is amended as follows:
1. In Paragraph 14 (1) (b), the words "if they are applicants, also the number of the electronically readable identification document, if issued to them 'are replaced by the words" State citizenship'.
2. In Paragraph 62, the following paragraph 5 is added:
"(5) All restrictions arising from the allocation of land and other property pursuant to Act No. 81 / 1920 Coll., which are issued by reason of § 10 of the Act of 16 April 1919, No. 215 Coll. and, above, provisions on the allocation of seized land and the provision on the legal relationship to the land allocated, Act No. 90 / 1947 Coll., on the implementation of the library order of the parties to the confiscated enemy property and on the modification of certain legal conditions applicable to the property allocated, Act No. 142 / 1947 Coll., on the revision of the first land reform, and Act No. 46 / 1948 Coll., on the new land reform, shall be deemed to exist regardless of whether or not; consent to the management of the assigned property shall not be required. The Catastral Office will delete these restrictions from the cadastral on the basis of the declaration of the Ministry of Agriculture. The entry provisions shall apply mutatis mutandis to the deletion of such deleted restrictions; Paragraph 11 shall not apply. ';
EFFECTIVE
This Law shall take effect on the first day of the second month following its publication, with the exception of Article I (5), which shall take effect on 1 January 2026.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 287 / 2025 Coll., amending Act No. 503 / 2012 Coll., on the State Land Office and on the amendment of certain related laws, as amended, and certain other laws |
|---|---|
| Regulation Type | Law |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 12.08.2025 |
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| Effective from | 01.10.2025 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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