A legal interpretation of the farm’s concept

Orlovits, Zsolt

Keywords: agricultural enterprise, farm, sum of objects, wealth rights, operation regulation, organizational forms.

Defining agricultural enterprise (farm) raises many problems not only from economic but also from a legal viewpoint. Even among professionals definitions of agricultural enterprise according to sum of objects versus organizational forms are mixed. The EU law considers agricultural enterprise as a distinct legal category and rests on the fact that member countries use a unified law to regulate frames of functioning of national farms. But strictly speaking this statement is true only for western states of the union. Although some elements of operation regulation are to be found in Hungarian law as well, they are related not to an abstract category of law but rather to concreat organizational forms of agricultural enterprises. Another feature of our agricultural law is that the different organizational forms occur not in a unified framework, rather in occasional regulations depending on jurisdiction of that time and regime.

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