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Text consolidated by Valsts valodas centrs (State
Language Centre) with amending laws of:
30 March 2006 [shall come
into force on 1 May 2006];
19 December 2006 [shall come into force on 1 January
2007];
18 October 2007 [shall come into force on 8 November
2007];
13 March 2008 [shall come into force on 27 March
2008];
30 April 2009 [shall come into force on 3 June
2009];
12 June 2009 [shall come into force on 1 July
2009];
28 January 2010 [shall come into force on 15 February
2010];
31 March 2011 [shall come into force on 28 April
2011];
13 October 2011 [shall come into force on 1 January
2013];
14 June 2012 [shall come into force on 28 June
2012];
16 October 2014 [shall come into force on 12 November
2014];
30 October 2014 [shall come into force on 1 January
2015].
If a whole or part of a section has been amended, the
date of the amending law appears in square brackets at
the end of the section. If a whole section, paragraph or
clause has been deleted, the date of the deletion appears
in square brackets beside the deleted section, paragraph
or clause.
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The Saeima 1 has adopted and
the President has proclaimed the following law:
Law on Agriculture and Rural
Development
Chapter I
General Provisions
Section 1. Terms Used in this
Law
The following terms are used in the Law:
1) agriculture - a sector of national economy which
ensures the production of agricultural products and the provision
of the services related thereto;
2) rural development - production of non-agricultural
products in a rural territory, and also the provision of services
related to the use of water and land resources and the
preservation of the rural landscape;
3) [1 May 2004 / see Transitional Provisions];
4) [1 May 2004 / see Transitional Provisions];
5) [30 April 2009];
6) [30 April 2009];
7) [1 May 2004 / see Transitional Provisions];
8) [1 May 2004 / see Transitional Provisions];
9) integrated growing of agricultural products - the
growing of agricultural products using environmentally friendly
measures, preserving biological diversity, and reducing the risks
to human health and the environment, concurrently ensuring plant
protection, animal health and welfare measures;
10) plantation of woody plants - permanent plantations
(except for ornamental woody plants, orchards, and nurseries)
which have been developed for specific purposes and in a regular
placement on agricultural land and the maximum growing cycle of
which is up to 15 years after which the crop is renewed or the
use of the land for the growing of other agricultural crops is
continued.
[18 October 2007; 30 April 2009; 16 October 2014]
Section 2. Purpose of this Law
The purpose of this Law is to provide legal basis for
agricultural development and to specify a long-term agricultural
and rural development policy in accordance with the Common
Agricultural Policy and the Common Fisheries Policy of the
European Union.
Section 3. Scope of Application of
the Law
This Law determines the implementation, supervision, and
evaluation of the agricultural and rural development policy in
order to facilitate the long-term development of this policy.
Chapter II
Implementation of the Agricultural and Rural Development
Policy
Section 4. Fundamental Principles
and Methods of the Implementation of the Agricultural and Rural
Development Policy
(1) The fundamental principles of the implementation of the
agricultural and rural development policy shall be as
follows:
1) conformity with the specific regional and sectoral
features;
2) State and foreign investments, and also investments of
natural and legal persons which promote rational development of
agricultural production, optimum use of the production factors,
and preservation of the rural environment, provide the producers
of agricultural products with support of income and market
prices, and promote the development of rural support and
structural measures.
(2) The methods of the implementation of the agricultural and
rural development policy shall be as follows:
1) State aid and European Union aid;
2) credit and tax policy;
21) risk management policy;
3) market intervention;
4) application of quotas;
5) application of a foreign trade regime;
6) support to producer groups;
7) other methods which arise from the international
commitments of Latvia.
[13 March 2008]
Section 5. State Aid and European
Union Aid
(1) State aid and the European Union aid is granted in order
to promote agricultural, rural, and fisheries development, and
also to raise the standard of living for the inhabitants of a
rural territory and to create equal competition preconditions for
the producers of agricultural products of Latvia and European
Union Member States.
(2) [18 October 2007]
(3) State aid for agricultural development in the form of
subsidies may not be less than 2.5 per cent of the total
expenditures of the annual basic budget which are covered from
grants from general revenues, deducting the contributions to the
budget of the European Union.
(31) State aid measures for the development of the
agricultural and forest sector, the amount of State aid, and the
criteria for granting it shall be determined by the Cabinet.
(4) The procedures by which State aid and European Union aid
is granted to agriculture and the procedures by which State aid
and European Union aid is granted for rural and fisheries
development shall be determined by the Cabinet. The Ministry of
Agriculture may delegate the implementation of individual State
aid measures to a body governed by private or public law in
accordance with the procedures laid down in the State
Administration Structure Law.
(41) The Ministry of Agriculture may delegate the
development and updating of the guidelines regarding conformity
with the requirements of mutual compliance to a body governed by
private or public law by a contract in accordance with the
procedures laid down in the State Administration Structure
Law.
(42) [16 October 2014]
(5) Long-term credits with preferential provisions and credit
interest subsidies may be allocated to the producers of
agricultural products in accordance with that specified in the
national programmes approved by the Cabinet.
(6) [13 March 2008]
(7) The procedures by which State aid and European Union aid
is administrated and supervised and the procedures by which State
and European Union aid for rural and fisheries development is
administrated and supervised shall be determined by the
Cabinet.
(71) The authority involved in the administration
of State and European Union aid shall take the decision on
approval or refusal of an application for aid not later than
within five months after submitting of the project application.
If additional time is required for the assessment of the project
application in order to determine the facts, the time period for
the assessment of the project application and for the taking of
the decision shall be extended, but not longer than until 12
months. If, for the assessment of the application for aid, the
determination of additional facts is necessary, the time period
for the taking of a decision may be extended until 12 months,
notifying the applicant thereof.
(8) The procedures by which the European Agricultural
Guarantee Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural
Development, and the European Fishery Fund shall be administered,
and also the competence and obligations of the institutions
involved in the administration of such funds shall be determined
by the Cabinet.
(9) The beneficiaries of State and European Union
agricultural, rural, and fisheries aid and the amount of the aid
received shall be deemed to be generally accessible information
which shall be made public. The Cabinet shall determine the
procedures by which information on the beneficiaries of State and
European Union agricultural, rural, and fisheries aid shall be
published.
(10) The Cabinet shall determine the procedures by which, in
developing the draft law on the budget for the current year,
State liabilities regarding guarantees which have been provided
according to the agricultural and rural development credit
guarantee programmes are provided for, and also the procedures
for guaranteeing agricultural and rural development credits and
the procedures for the supervision of the guarantees issued
according to the agricultural and rural development credit
guarantee programmes.
(11) In the amount specified in the law on the State budget
for the current year, the State shall be liable for the
guarantees which have been provided according to the agricultural
and rural development credit guarantee programmes.
(12) The decision on the granting of State aid shall be
revoked within the time period specified in Article 15 of Council
Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 of 22 March 1999 laying down detailed
rules for the application of Article 93 of the EC Treaty, if the
European Commission takes the decision specified in Article 88(2)
of the Treaty Establishing the European Community. Contesting of
the decision on the recovery of State aid shall not suspend the
operation thereof.
(13) Contesting or appeal of the decision taken on the
approval, rejection of an application for European Union aid, on
granting of payment or refusal to grant payment, and also of the
decision taken on the recovery of aid unduly disbursed shall not
suspend the operation thereof.
(14) The case for the application for State and European Union
aid is restricted access information.
[30 March 2006; 18 October 2007; 13 March 2008; 12 June
2009; 28 January 2010; 31 March 2011; 14 June 2012; 16 October
2014]
Section 6. Market Intervention
(1) Market intervention shall be implemented in order to
stabilise the market prices, using an intervention procurement or
private storage mechanism.
(2) The procedures by which market intervention arrangements
are administered and supervised in the market of crop production,
livestock production, fishery, and aquaculture production market
shall be determined by the Cabinet.
Section 7. Quotas
(1) Quotas shall be applied in order to reduce the
non-conformity of supply and demand of agricultural products and
to improve the market balance.
(2) The Cabinet shall determine the regulations regarding the
administration of milk quotas. The regulations regarding the
administration of milk quotas shall govern the procedures for
carrying out transactions with milk quotas, the administration
and control of milk quotas, and also the procedures by which
payment shall be made for the exceeded milk quota and for the
annual declaration of the direct trade and supply quota not
submitted within the deadline.
(3) The procedures for the allocation and administration of
quotas for the production of potato starch shall be determined by
the Cabinet.
[12 June 2009]
Section 8. Foreign Trade Regime
(1) The foreign trade regime shall be applied in order to
introduce uniform arrangements in relation to the bringing in
(import) and bringing out (export) of agricultural products and
the processed products thereof and to govern the procedures for
the supervision and administration of these procedures.
(2) The procedures for the administration of the foreign trade
regime shall be determined by the Cabinet.
Section 8.1 Application
of the Security
(1) The securities specified in Commission Regulation (EEC) No
2220/85 of 22 July 1985 laying down common detailed rules for the
application of the system of securities for agricultural products
shall be applied in order to guarantee the fulfilment of
liabilities in the implementation of the organisational
management measures of the common agricultural market.
(2) The procedures for the application of the security for
agriculture and the processed products thereof shall be
determined by the Cabinet.
[18 October 2007]
Section 9. Producer Groups and
Producer Organisations
(1) A producer group or producer organisation is a legal
person which, in accordance with the laws and regulations
regarding the operation of producer groups and producer
organisations, has been approved and established in order to
ensure the quantity and quality of agricultural products,
planning and adapting of the production to meet the demand, to
facilitate the concentration of the supply and the marketing of
the products produced by the members of the abovementioned groups
or organisations, to provide services, to reduce production
costs, to stabilise producer prices, and to facilitate the
recycling of environmentally friendly production waste, and also
the preservation of the landscape and the biological diversity of
the environment.
(2) The criteria for the recognition and the procedures for
the recognition of producer groups, the operational conditions
and operational control thereof shall be determined by the
Cabinet.
(3) The criteria for the recognition and the procedures for
the recognition of producer organisations, the operational
conditions, and the control thereof shall be governed by the
Cabinet.
[13 March 2008; 12 June 2009]
Section 10. Use and Preservation of
Land
(1) A change in the category of agricultural land use shall be
performed in accordance with the procedures laid down in laws and
regulations.
(11) [30 April 2009]
(12) The following shall be carried out for
ensuring sustainable use of agricultural land:
1) agro-chemical research of soils for the purpose of
obtaining information on the fertility level of agricultural land
and the changes therein, and also a database for the
agro-chemical research of soils shall be created and
maintained;
2) agro-chemical research of soils upon request of the land
owner or legal possessor.
(2) The procedures for obtaining and compiling information on
the fertility level of agricultural land and the changes therein
shall be determined by the Cabinet.
(3) [30 October 2014]
(4) [30 October 2014]
(5) The development of plantations of woody plants shall be
permitted on agricultural land if it conforms to the requirements
of the spatial development planning documents and if:
1) the relevant territory has not been included in the State
register maintained by the Nature Conservation Board in
accordance with the procedures laid down in laws and regulations
as a specially protected habitat (including grassland habitat of
European Union importance) or a habitat of specially protected
species;
2) in amelioration areas they are developed in accordance with
the requirements of the Amelioration Law.
[19 December 2006; 30 April 2009; 28 January 2010; 16
October 2014; 30 October 2014]
Section 10.1 Development
of Agricultural Land in a Forest
(1) The development of agricultural land in a forest shall be
permitted if it is not in contradiction with the spatial
development planning documents of the local government and the
restrictions specified in the laws and the regulations regarding
environmental and nature protection have been complied with. The
initiator of the activity shall receive a permit from the local
government before commencing the development of agricultural land
in a forest.
(2) The procedures for the development of agricultural land in
a forest, and also for the issuing of a permit for the
development thereof shall be determined by the Cabinet.
[13 October 2011; 30 October 2014]
Section 11. Organic Farming and
Integrated Growing of Agricultural Products
(1) The functions of the control authority provided for by
Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic
production and labelling of organic products and repealing
Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 (hereinafter - Council Regulation No
834/2007) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 of 5
September 2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation
of Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and
labelling of organic products with regard to organic production,
labelling and control (hereinafter - Commission Regulation No
889/2008) shall be performed by the authorities stipulated by the
Cabinet which, in accordance with laws and regulations, have been
accredited with the State Agency of Meteorology and Accreditation
and which have been issued with a certificate of the Food and
Veterinary Service that they conform with the criteria of Council
Regulation No 834/2007. A State fee shall be paid for the issuing
of the certificate.
(2) The decision of the control authority for organic farming
on the operator joining the control system for organic farming
shall be taken within one month after preparation of the control
report referred to in Article 65(3) of Commission Regulation No
889/2008.
(21) The Food and Veterinary Service shall assess
the operation of the control authority in the third country in
accordance with the requirements laid down in Articles 32 and 33
of Council Regulation No 834/2007. The expenditures related to
the supervisory visit of the control authority and the
preparation of the operational assessment report of that
authority in accordance with Article 4(3)(c) and Article 11(3)(c)
of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 of 8 December 2008
laying down detailed rules for implementation of Council
Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 as regards the arrangements for
imports of organic products from third countries shall be covered
by the control authority in accordance with the procedures laid
down in the laws and regulations regarding the State supervision
and control activities performed by the Food and Veterinary
Service and the payment of the paid services provided in
accordance with the specified procedures.
(22) The Food and Veterinary Service shall prepare
an assessment report on the operation of the control authority
not later than within 60 days.
(3) The Cabinet shall determine:
1) the procedures for the supervision and control of organic
farming;
2) the procedures for the circulation of animals and products
derived from them which is not governed by the directly
applicable acts of the European Union regarding organic
farming;
3) the requirements for integrated cultivation, storage, and
labelling of agricultural products, and the procedures for the
control thereof;
4) the amount of the State fee, the procedures for the payment
thereof, and the reliefs for the issue of a permit for the use of
vegetative propagating material and seed in organic farming, if
such material and seed have not been obtained by the method of
organic farming production;
5) the amount of the State fee and the procedures by which the
payment for the issue of a permit for the use of food ingredients
in the processing of organic food products shall be made, if such
food ingredients have not been obtained by the method of organic
farming production;
6) the amount of the State fee and the procedures by which the
payment for the issue of the certificate of conformity of the
organic farming control authority shall be made.
[30 April 2009; 14 June 2012]
Section 12. Co-operation with
Agricultural and Fisheries Organisations
(1) In developing and implementing the agricultural and rural
development policy, the Ministry of Agriculture shall enter into
consultations with the Co-operation Council of Agricultural
Organisations, but in relation to the fisheries development
policy - with the Fisheries Advisory Council.
(2) The Co-operation Council of Agricultural Organisations
shall be an advisory body. It shall itself approve its by-laws
specifying the objectives and main tasks of the Co-operation
Council of Agricultural Organisations.
(3) The Fisheries Advisory Council shall be an advisory and
co-ordinating body the objective of which is to create a balanced
policy of fisheries development and to co-ordinate the views of
State and non-governmental organisations on the implementation of
the fisheries policy. The Fisheries Advisory Council shall be
consist of the representatives of State and fisheries
organisations. The Cabinet shall approve the by-laws of the
Fisheries Advisory Council.
Section 12.1 Agricultural
Risk Management
(1) Agricultural risk management shall ensure an efficient
system for compensating losses caused by agricultural production
risks.
(2) The procedures by which the agricultural risk fund is
administered and supervised, and also the procedures by which
contributions to this fund are made and refunds are disbursed
from it shall be determined by the Cabinet.
[13 March 2008]
Chapter III
Information Necessary for the Ensuring, Supervision, and
Evaluation of the Agricultural and Rural Development Policy
[12 June 2009]
Section 13. Ensuring and Accounting
of Agricultural Information
(1) The procedures by which information on the prices and
trading volumes of agricultural products during a specified
reference period shall be collected and compiled shall be
determined by the Cabinet. The Cabinet may delegate the
collecting and compiling of the abovementioned information to a
body governed by private or public law in accordance with the
procedures laid down in the State Administration Structure
Law.
(2) The Ministry of Agriculture shall each year ensure the
compilation of the information on the revenues, production costs,
results of economic activity of the producers of agricultural
products and the structural and production indicators of farms
thereof, and also the inclusion of the abovementioned information
in the farm accounting data network. Farms shall be classified
according to the economic size and specialisation thereof.
(3) The procedures for the establishment, maintenance, and
operation of the farm accounting data network shall be determined
by the Cabinet. The Cabinet may delegate ensuring of the
maintenance and operation of the farm accounting data network,
and also the tasks of the accounting office, except for the
control of financial resources, to a body governed by private or
public law in accordance with the procedures laid down in the
State Administration Structure Law.
(4) The Ministry of Agriculture shall each year ensure the
preparation of the economic aggregate calculation of agriculture
in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic
accounts for agriculture in the Community. The procedures for the
preparation of the economic aggregate calculation of agriculture
shall be determined by the Cabinet. The Cabinet may delegate the
preparation of the abovementioned aggregate calculation to a body
governed by private or public law in accordance with the
procedures laid down in the State Administration Structure
Law.
(5) The procedures for forecasting the productivity of crops
and conducting the sample surveys of agricultural statistics, and
also the procedures for calculating the gross margin for groups
of crop production and livestock shall be determined by the
Cabinet. The Ministry of Agriculture may delegate the forecasting
of crop yields, the performance of sampling surveys of
agricultural statistics, and the calculation of gross margin for
groups of crop production and livestock in accordance with the
procedures laid down in the State Administration Structure Law to
a body governed by private or public law by contract.
(6) The Ministry of Agriculture may delegate the distribution
of the information necessary for the ensuring of an agricultural
and rural development policy to local governments in accordance
with the procedures laid down in the State Administration
Structure Law to a body governed by private or public law by
contract.
(7) The procedures for compiling the data necessary for the
preparation of justifications for the support payments specified
in Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 on
support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund
for Rural Development (EAFRD) shall be determined by the Cabinet.
The Ministry of Agriculture may delegate the compiling of the
data necessary for the preparation of justifications for the
support payments specified in Council Regulation (EC) No
1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 on support for rural development
by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
in accordance with the procedures laid down in the State
Administration Structure Law to a body governed by private or
public law by contract.
(8) The Ministry of Agriculture may, in accordance with the
procedures laid down in the State Administration Structure Law,
delegate the following administrative tasks to a body governed by
private or public law by contract:
1) further vocational training of the specialists employed in
the Ministry and the organisations subordinate thereto;
2) ensuring the functioning of agricultural interest
groups;
3) informing and training of farmers, foresters, and forest
owners regarding agricultural, rural development, and forestry
issues, and also the latest developments of the relevant
sectors.
(9) The data to be compiled in the information systems of the
institutions under subordination and supervision of the Ministry
of Agriculture shall be combined in a single information system
for the agricultural sector. The manager and keeper of the single
information system for the agricultural sector shall be the
Ministry of Agriculture.
(10) The data to be included in the single information system
for the agricultural sector, the procedures by which they shall
be processed and issued, and also received from other State
administrative institutions shall be determined by the
Cabinet.
(11) The manager of the single information system for the
agricultural sector shall inform the data subject of the
processing, receipt, and transfer of personal data only in the
case specified in Section 9, Paragraph two of the Personal Data
Processing Law.
[13 March 2008; 12 June 2009; 28 January 2010; 14 June
2012]
Transitional Provisions
1. With the coming into force of this Law, the Law on
Agriculture (Latvijas Republikas Saeimas un Ministru Kabineta
Ziņotājs, 1996, No. 23; 2001, No. 7; 2002, No. 2, 24; 2004,
No. 4) and the Saeima Announcement of 15 June 1998
regarding the Rural Development Programme of Latvia (Latvijas
Republikas Augstākās Padomes un Valdības Ziņotājs, 1998, No.
13) are repealed.
2. Until the day of the coming into force of the new Cabinet
regulations, but not longer than until 1 May 2004, the following
Cabinet Regulations shall be applicable insofar as they are not
in contradiction with this Law:
1) Cabinet Regulation No. 330 of 30 July 2002, Procedures for
the Establishment, Maintenance, and Operation of the Farm
Accounting Data Network;
2) Cabinet Regulation No. 331 of 30 July 2002, Regarding
Purchase of Grain from the Suppliers of the Limited Liability
Company Riga Bestsprit in 2002;
3) Cabinet Regulation No. 303 of 10 June 2003, Regulations
Regarding Intervention in Market in Cereals;
4) Cabinet Regulation No. 540 of 27 December 2001, Procedures
for Establishing a Uniform System of Administration for Aid to
Rural Areas, Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry;
5) Cabinet Regulation No. 514 of 26 October 2002, Procedures
for the Circulation and Certification of Organic Farming
Products;
6) Cabinet Regulations No. 232 of 29 April 2003, Procedures
for the Registration of Persons Engaged in the Circulation of
Organic Farming Products and Procedures for the State Supervision
and Control of the Circulation of Organic Farming Products;
7) Cabinet Regulation No. 7 of 3 January 2002, Regulations
Regarding the List of Agricultural Products;
8) Cabinet Regulation No. 363 of 1 July 2003, Procedures by
which Information Regarding the Prices and Trading Volumes of
Agricultural Products shall be Provided, Gathered and
Compiled.
3. Until the day of coming into force of the new Cabinet
regulations, but not longer than until 1 June 2004, Cabinet
Regulation No. 385 of 28 August 2001, Conditions for the
Transformation of the Agricultural Land and Procedures for the
Issue of Permits for Land Transformation shall be applied insofar
as it is not in contradiction with this Law.
4. The Cabinet shall, by 1 May 2004, issue the regulations
provided for in Section 5, Paragraphs four and seven of this
Law.
5. Section 1, Clauses 3, 4, 7, and 8 of this Law shall be in
force until 1 May 2004.
6. The Cabinet shall, by 1 September 2004, issue the
regulations provided for in Section 10, Paragraph two and Section
12, Paragraph three of this Law.
7. The Order No. 101 of 8 March 2004 of the Minister for
Agriculture, On Implementation of the Agricultural State Subsidy
Programme in 2004, shall be in force until 31 December 2004.
8. The organic farming certificates issued in accordance with
Cabinet Regulation No. 514 of 26 November 2002, Procedures for
the Circulation and Certification of Organic Farming Products,
shall remain valid until 1 October 2004.
9. The Cabinet shall, by 1 June 2006, issue the regulations
provided for in Section 5, Paragraph nine of this Law.
[30 March 2006]
10. The information indicated in Section 5, Paragraph nine of
this Law in respect of the period from Latvia's accession to the
European Union up to 1 May 2006 shall be published by 1 September
2006.
[30 March 2006]
11. The Cabinet, by 1 January 2007, shall issue the
regulations provided for in Section 5, Paragraph eight of this
Law.
[30 March 2006]
12. Until the day of the coming into force of the regulations
provided for in Section 5, Paragraph six of this Law, but not
longer than by 1 January 2007, Cabinet Regulation No. 21 of 3
January 2006, Regulations Regarding State Aid for Agriculture in
2006 and the Procedures for the Granting Thereof, shall be
applicable insofar as they are not in contradiction with this
Law.
[30 March 2006]
13. Until the day of the coming into force of new Cabinet
regulations, but not longer than by 31 December 2008, Cabinet
Regulation No. 379 of 12 June 2007, Procedures for the
Supervision and Control of Organic Farming, shall be applicable
insofar as they are not in contradiction with this Law.
[18 October 2007]
14. The Cabinet shall:
1) by 1 January 2008, issue the regulations provided for in
Section 11, Clause 3 of this Law;
2) by 31 December 2008, issue the regulations provided for in
Section 11, Clause 2 of this Law.
[18 October 2007]
15. [30 April 2009]
16. The Cabinet shall, by 1 September 2008, issue the
regulations referred to in Section 12.1, Paragraph two
of this Law.
[13 March 2008]
17. Until the day of the coming into force of new Cabinet
regulations, but not longer than by 1 July 2010, Cabinet
Regulation No. 276 of 15 April 2008, Procedures for the
Circulation of Animal Products, Wild Plants and Products Derived
Therefrom which are not Regulated by Directly Applicable Legal
Acts of the European Union Regarding Organic Farming, shall be
applicable insofar as they are not in contradiction with this
Law.
[30 April 2009]
18. Until the day of the coming into force of new Cabinet
regulations, but not longer than by 1 July 2010, Cabinet
Regulation No. 401 of 2 June 2008, Requirements for Integrated
Cultivation, Storage and Labelling of Agricultural Products and
the Procedures for Control Thereof, shall be applicable insofar
as they are not in contradiction with this Law.
[30 April 2009]
19. Amendments to Section 10, Paragraph one of this Law
regarding the procedures for changing the agricultural land use
category and the deletion of Section 1, Clause 6 and Section 10,
Paragraph 1.1 of this Law shall come into force on 1
July 2009.
[30 April 2009]
20. Until 1 July 2009, the applications submitted to the Rural
Support Service for the receipt of a permit for the
transformation of agricultural land or the extension of the term
of the permit for transformation shall be examined in accordance
with the laws and regulations in force on the day of the
submission thereof. A person who has received a permit for the
transformation of agricultural land shall, in conformity with the
procedures laid down in the State Immovable Property Cadastre Law
and other laws and regulations, carry out the relevant activities
for changing the land use category.
[30 April 2009]
21. Section 11, Paragraph three, Clauses 4, 5, and 6 of this
Law shall come into force on 1 December 2009.
[30 April 2009]
22. The Cabinet shall, by 31 December 2010, issue the
regulations referred to in Section 9, Paragraph three of this
Law.
[12 June 2009]
23. Amendments to Section 5, Paragraph 3.1 of this
Law regarding the supplementation of Paragraph with the forest
sector shall come into force on 1 March 2013.
[14 June 2012]
24. The Cabinet shall, by 31 December 2012, issue the
regulations referred to in Section 5, Paragraph 4.2 of
this Law.
[14 June 2012]
25. The Cabinet shall, by 1 September 2012, issue the
regulations referred to in Section 13, Paragraph ten of this
Law.
[14 June 2012]
The Law shall come into force on the day following its
proclamation.
The Law has been adopted by the Saeima on 7 April
2004.
President V. Vīķe-Freiberga
Rīga, 23 April 2004
1 The Parliament of the Republic of
Latvia
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