Constitutional Court Opens Case Challenging Agricultural Producers Support Act Amendments

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The Constitutional Court has opened a case following a request by 52 members of the 52nd National Assembly to declare certain provisions of the Agricultural Producers Support Act unconstitutional, the Court said. Judge Desislava Atanasova has been appointed as the reporting judge in the case.
On September 17, Parliament amended conclusively the Agricultural Producers Support Act. On September 25, Democratic Bulgaria said that it would seek to have the law declared unconstitutional.
“One hundred and fifty million euros have been forcibly taken from the property of Bulgarian citizens and redirected to a newly established fund for supporting agricultural producers. This was achieved through amendments to the Agricultural Producers Support Act, which in turn introduced changes to the Agricultural Land Ownership and Use Act. During the parliamentary debate, we strongly opposed these actions by the governing majority, represented by Progressive Bulgaria, but not a single one of our arguments was taken into consideration,” said MP Svilen Trifonov.
According to Democratic Bulgaria, some of the amendments concern funds collected from the so-called ‘blank spots’, which are agricultural land plots for which no use agreement has been concluded between the owner and an agricultural producer, but which are included in a special procedure for the allocation of agricultural land to ensure that they are not left uncultivated and the agricultural producer using such land is required to pay rent.
If the owner does not claim the money, the amount is deposited into a special account held by the local regional directorate of agriculture and can be claimed by the owner within a statutory time limit of 10 years. If the owner does not claim the money within that period, which may be because the owner is unaware of the existence of the money, it is collected by the government.
Democratic Bulgaria maintains that the contested provisions violate the principle of the rule of law, the guarantees of the right to property and the inviolability of private property. The coalition noted that the relevant case law of the European Court of Human Rights was not taken into account when the new legislation was adopted.

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