Land Fund Lawsuit Vs Kishantos Organic Farm, Greenpeace Suspended
- 10 Nov 2015 2:00 AM
A Pest County court suspended a lawsuit filed by the National Land Management Fund (NFA) against the organic farm of Kishantos and Greenpeace Hungary. Last year, the NFA filed a lawsuit against the Kishantos Rural Development Centre saying that it had caused damages to the state for more than six months by using land that it had been leasing in the past but then lost the eligibility to use.
The NFA had said that neither the centre nor the new leaseholder had paid the lease to the state during that period. The state sought 14 million forints (EUR 44,650) in damages from the Kishantos farm.
The court agreed to suspend the lawsuit in light of other ongoing legal disputes related to the case. Both respondents insisted that they had acted lawfully. Before the hearing, representatives of several NGOs and some members of opposition parties demonstrated outside the court building in support of the Kishantos farm.
The Kishantos Rural Development Centre was set up under an agreement between the Hungarian and German governments 16 years ago.
It operated on 452 hectares of state-owned land and produced the highest-grade organic seeds, as well as offering courses to farmers and carrying out agricultural research.
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