Protected farms are farms or agro- m-economic units owned by one natural person, co-owned or jointly owned by a married couple, or a parent and child or adopted child, or their descendants. A protected farm encompasses forestry and residential buildings, along with land necessary intended for regular usage by a building, agricultural device tool or livestock. Only farms comprising of a least five hectares and not more than hundred hectares of comparable agricultural land qualify as protected farms. The status for protected farm can be granted by administrative unit of its own motion. In this bachelor thesis we will examine and compare current and past Slovenian legislation and the legislation of selected EU Member States, which covers the protection of farms against the fragmentation of their property. The differences between individual approaches and possible measures, that could further strengthen the economic power of farms and at the same time also enable economic and social stability of heirs, will be described. While writing this degree, we recognised that the older owners concur with the law and think well of it, whereas the younger owns view it as an obstacle, since this limits their free disposal of the land. Although they are the owners of farms, they cannot sell parts of the land as desired.
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