3.1 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих слов и выражений:

природоохранная территория, государственная структура, землевладелец, виды, лечебно-оздоровительные местности.

3.2 Переведите слова и выражения в скобках:

1. Nature reserves (определяются) by government institutions (в некоторых странах).

2. A few of them (появились до) the October Revolution of 1917.

3. The status of (охраняемых территорий) in Russia (устанавливается) by the laws of the Russian Federation.

3.3 Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What is a nature reserve?

2. How many nature reserves are there in Russia?

3. What categories of protected areas do you know?

Text 4 The Land Code

The Land Code of the Russian Federation is a document passage into law effectuated by the Federal law. The Land Code consists of 18 chapters. This document regulates the procedure, conditions, principles and other important issues of legal land relationship in the Russian Federation.

 General provisions contained in the Code determine principles and elements of land legislation specify the participants of legal land relationship, objects of legal land relationship, contain the list of categories of lands in the Russian Federation.

The Code establishes different mechanisms of operations with different plots, different legal regime of their use. The Code defines the concept "protection of land", determines purposes and content of such protection.  The Code specifies the kinds of control in accordance with the land legislation, protection and use of lands (state, municipal, social, industrial control). Besides, the Code contains responsibility for offences in the area of protection and use of lands.

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4.1 Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих слов и выражений:

земельный кодекс, приводить в исполнение, земельные отношения, положения, участок (земли), земельное законодательство, правонарушение.

4.2 Укажите в каком из приведенных значений данное слово употребляется в тексте:

condition a) состояние

b) условие

c) обстоятельство

operation a) разработка

b) эксплуатация

c) действие

plot a) план

b) участок

c) проект

4.3 Что регулирует земельный кодекс?

a) The Land Code regulates participants of legal land relation?

b) The Land Code regulates the procedure, conditions, and principles of legal land relationship.

c) The Land Code regulates law effectuated by the Federal law.

Text 5 The relations of landownership

The relations of landownership have always been the central part of social and economic relations.

The Earth represents the unique natural resource. It is a unique place of mankind’s existence, main and unique factor of creation of its productive forces.

At the same time, in market economy the land acquires the form of goods and is a subject to the property agreements. Introduction of the market relations shows demands to a system of the state registration of land lots, control over their legal status and turnover of land and its rational usage.

And, at last, land is a basic compound of any real estate. According to article 130 of the Civil Code of Russian Federation we refer to real things (real property, real estate) land lots, sites of subsoil, isolated aquatic plants.

Now it is impossible to isolate such plants of the real estate, as sites of subsoil, forest and long-term green plants.

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