| An increasing number of requests for
legal advice relate to questions that cut across the traditional
subject matters in which the Development Law Service has worked.These
have included such diverse issues as wholesale agricultural marketing
(Georgia, Armenia and Croatia); rural radio (Burkina Faso); trade
(Jamaica, Turkey); institutional structure of agriculture ministries
(Mali), etc.
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In these projects, the legal component
often consists of carrying out a detailed study of the legal framework
concerning a particular subject area, such as agricultural trade or
policy. For example, the project in Slovakia has produced a lengthy
study describing the Ministries and other organisations involved in
the agricultural sector and compiling the laws relating to agricultural
management, land restitution, privatisation, forestry, food industry
management, seed certification, plant variety and animal breed protection,
agricultural product marketing, and others.
On the basis of this information, the Development Law Service will
recommend either amendments to legal instruments or the enactment
of new legislation to assist Slovakia in revamping the agricultural
sector during its transition from a centralised economy to a free
market one. In a far-reaching project in Venezuela, eight consultants
with expertise in various aspects of agricultural development provided
input to the legal expert, who drafted a basic law on agricultural
development and food security.
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