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ISSUES IN CRETION AND USE OF ROADS IN AGRICULTURAL AREAS
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Creating roads in agricultural land covers many aspects like legal eligibility, planning and design, road safety, quality assurance, mobilization of resources, environmental protection, social contribution, maintenance management, research and development provision, etc. Currently, the issue of construction agricultural roads is underestimated. Priority is given to highway construction. Society is not institutionally, scientifically and resource prepared to promote this process. The goal of the paper is to examine the existing legal grounds of providing access to farmland outside the urban area and to make suggestions for improvements of the regulatory framework in order to enable the process of development an optimal rural road network with aim of achieving substantial socio-economic effect, i.e. optimal connectivity on farm and inter-farm level and most facilitated service of the agricultural production. The paper studies, firstly, the legal status of roads that lead to and serve the landed properties under different ownership: state, municipal or private; and secondly, the problems and issues of road establishment through different access procedures, including voluntary legal relation settlement, administrative proceeding and, in some cases, judicial intervention. The paper stresses on the need of legal concretization for preservation of the agricultural permanent purpose of use and land quality under various forms of entities and management, i.e. in cases of lease, rent or joint processing agreements. It outlines the apparent need of regulations of the process of road construction, operation and maintenance that guarantee minimal adverse effects on soils and environment; and before everything, filling the gap of needed specifications like categorization and technological standards for building safe, sustainable and cost effective un-surfaced low traffic roads in the rural areas.
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