Processes for reforming civil legislation on real estate and their social significance
The Council for Codification and Development of Civil Legislation under the President of the Russian Federation has presented a new approach to understanding immovable property for popular discussion. The developers proposed to include in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation a new chapter 6.1 «Immovable things». In the article, the author conducts a civilistic analysis of the alleged innovations of civil legislation, while stressing the special social importance of land and natural resources as the conditions of life of citizens and the basis of their economic existence. In this regard, the exclusion of natural resources from real estate objects by the author is considered to be a socially dangerous trend in the development of civil legislation. The article proves that it is important to maintain the balance of private and public starts in the civil-legal regulation of real estate, so that the interest of developing its market does not prevail over the interest of preserving its integrity and value for subsequent generations of Russians. And in this context, the author sees special social importance of modern processes of reform of civil legislation on immovable property. The author argues the need to introduce a category of real estate - ‘‘public heritage’’, which will ensure the preservation of land serving socially useful purposes.