Presidential Decree No. 970/2000 validating the Regulation on the State Committee on Land Resources.

The State Committee on Land Resources is the central executive body which activity shall be directed and coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers. The main tasks of the Committee are: 1) elaboration of the proposals for the formation of the state land policy, regulation of land relations, protection and monitoring of land, and also keeping state land cadastre and implementation of the aforesaid policy; 2) coordination and carrying out land reform in the Ukraine; 3) carrying out the state control over land use and land conservation; 4) keeping land cadastre and carrying out land survey; 5) renewal of the fertile soil layer. The State Committee on Land Resources shall carry out the following functions : 1) elaboration of the state programs regarding privatization of land, rational land tenure, conservation and monitoring of soil, and also keeping the state land cadastre ; 2) land valuation ; 3) registration of the plots of land and contracts of land lease ; 4) land survey ; 5) land monitoring ; 6) data collection regarding land relations and creation of database ; 7) coordination of the topographic, cartographic and geodetic activity.

Amended by: Presidential Decree No. 795/2005 regarding some issues of the state regulation in the sphere of land valuation. (2005-05-16)