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With the adoption at first reading a bill, the Verkhovna Rada set the minimum rental period for agricultural land under vineyards or for laying it at 25 years.
Bill No. 2064 on amending certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the promotion of viticulture in Ukraine was supported by 295 MPs.
In addition, the bill establishes the pre-emptive right to renegotiate the contract after the expiration of the previous period for a person who leases land for growing vineyards and who properly fulfills the terms of the contract.
It is envisaged that upon transfer of ownership with the early termination of the right to use the land plot under viticulture, the land user should be paid reimbursement of expenses incurred for laying and caring for perennial plantations, as well as for losses incurred. The amount of losses should be determined by an independent assessment.
According to an explanatory note to the document, in recent years 21,200 hectares of new plantings were grown on farms of all forms of ownership, and 34,100 hectares were uprooted.
The problems of the development of viticulture are also associated with the high capital intensity of creating a modern vineyard (investments per 1 ha are more than UAH 100,000) and the duration of its payback. The duration of the creation of a vineyard is four years or more. The period of intensive operation of an industrial vineyard is 20-25 years.