"Vitebskoblimushchestvo" has sold unused state property worth Br4.2 billion since the beginning of the year.

August 10, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. More than 100 real estate objects have been sold at auctions by the Vitebsk Regional Territorial Fund of State Property "Vitebskoblimushchestvo" in the first seven months of the current year, Larisa Shcheglova, head of the auctions and tenders department, told a BELTA correspondent. A significant part of them (about 80) were sold for one basic unit. In total, from January to July, real estate objects, the right to conclude lease agreements for land plots, and equipment worth a total of Br4.2 billion were sold at 22 successful auctions. Among the largest sales, Larisa Shcheglova mentioned the sale of unused buildings and structures and the right to a 10-year lease of a land plot with a total area of 11 hectares (this is the territory of the former oil depot in Zaolshe, Liozno district) for almost Br2.2 billion at auction. The buyer was a Russian-Dutch company, which intends to create a large agro-logistics center in this border area with Russia. The auction was held at the end of June, and today the investor has already started implementing the project. According to Larisa Shcheglova, the sale of unused and inefficiently used property will intensify in the near future. The decree No. 6 "On stimulating entrepreneurial activity in small and medium-sized towns, rural areas" and decree No. 294 "On the procedure for disposal of state property", which entered into force on July 6, 2012, will contribute to this. Thus, the decree provides for the possibility of alienating state real estate in small towns without selling the right to conclude a land lease agreement and providing it without an auction and without charging a fee for the right to conclude a lease agreement. This will significantly help solve the problem of abandoned buildings and structures in rural areas, the interviewee believes. Decree No. 294 expands the powers of regional executive committees to dispose of unused and inefficiently used property owned by the Republic of Belarus, included in the list of unused and inefficiently used property owned by the Republic of Belarus, to involve it in economic circulation, including decisions on the alienation of such property on a compensatory basis, including sale at auction with the establishment of an initial price equal to one basic unit. This measure will also contribute to the reduction of bureaucratic procedures and the faster transfer of objects to an effective owner, believes Larisa Shcheglova.