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The Land Code of 1991 provided the following forms of land
ownership: state, collective, and private. All forms of ownership are
equal. Land is at disposal of Council of Peoples Deputies, that transfer
lands into ownership or in use within their jurisdiction. By purposes,

all land of Ukraine is subdivided into following categories:
1. Agricultural land.
2. Land of settlements (urban, rural).

3. Land for industrial, transport, communication and defense
purposes and land of another purposes.
4. Conservancy, sanitary, recreation land and land of historical
and cultural value.

5. Land of Forest Fund.
6. Land of Water Fund.
7. Reserve land. Land transference from one to another category

is made in the case use has been changed.
Ukraine still lack political and social consensus on the basic
principles of restitution of ownership and related legislation that

causes many problems connected with land tenure and ownership of
land in our country.

Task 3. Answer the questions, using the active vocabulary.

1. What is land tenure?
2. What spheres of human life is it (land tenure) connected with?
3. What are the main catagories of land tenure?

4. Can you name the difference between communal and state
catagories of land tenure?
5. What catagories is the land of Ukraine subdivided into?

6. Is the system of land ownership and tenure in Ukraine
effective? Why?

Task 4. Define whether the following statements are true or
false. Correct the false ones according to the text.

1. Rules of tenure define how property rights to land are to be
allocated within societies.

2. Land tenure is not multi-dimensional.
3. Within a community, individual families may have exclusive
rights to residential parcels, agricultural parcels and certain trees.
4. Marine tenure is open only to the government.

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