THE POSITION OF THE HUNGARIAN AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION IN THE TENDENCIES OF THE LEGISLATION CONCERNING THE EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS
THE POSITION OF THE HUNGARIAN AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION IN THE TENDENCIES OF THE LEGISLATION CONCERNING THE EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS

Summary/Abstract: The primary aim of this paper is to deal with the general tendencies which influenced the current European and Hungarian legislation concerning agricultural holdings. The assessment of these historical tendencies is especially important in the field of agricultural law because of the special features of agriculture as one of the branches of the economy (i.e. the changes of the agricultural structure always demand more time than those of other economic branches). The systematizing research of agricultural provisions can be pursued in several ways. The present work is based on the approach which focuses on the subjects of agricultural legislation i.e. the separate elements of the agricultural legal relations.1 The main subjects of agricultural law are the agricultural activity, the agricultural producer, the agricultural holding, the agricultural product and food as well as the rural areas.2 The author of the present paper has to emphasize that he focuses on the evolvement of the legal subjects in Western European countries but these legal subjects have not been totally integrated into the Hungarian legislation yet. The category of the agricultural activity is continuously expanding: at this moment it consists of four levels. The first level, as the core of the concept, includes the growing of crops and the keeping of animals. The second level is really close to the first level and means the processing and sale of the agricultural products in the primary form. The third level means the secondary activities in the frame of agricultural holdings (see the definition of agricultural holdings below); e.g. agrotourism in the rooms of a farm building. The fourth level means the secondary activities outside agricultural holdings3 (see the rural development at the definition of rural area.

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