On protection of soils at leasing of land

Abstract

The purpose. To determine pressing questions and state of development of the legislation in Ukraine, to analyze the international and domestic experience of protection of soils. Methods. Aspects of legislative adjustment of legal protection of soils in Ukraine during leasing of lands of agricultural assignment are surveyed, features of normative-legal adjustment of preservation of edaphic resources in different states of the world are studied. Results. Positive foreign experience of some countries is probed and presented. It is shown as during leasing of lands of agricultural assignment in Ukraine the interested subjects can practically care about the state of soils at the level of signing agreements. Application of measures of protection of edaphic resources at that level is one of scientifically-practical and socially useful results. Conclusions. For legislative adjustment of legal protection of soils in Ukraine it is necessary for parliament to adopt the Law “On preservation of soils and protection of their fertility”, and also to approve other acts in the yielded sphere. Considering urgency of the problem of protection of soils as a whole, special attention is given to the necessity of supervisory control over the state of soils during leasing of lands of agricultural assignment.