The purpose of this procedure is to make it legally and factually possible for the investor (the owner of the land property, or developer with created right to build on another person’s land, or developer granted with the right to build on another person’s land by virtue of a special law) to effect building on land property which is located on an agricultural territory.
Agricultural territories are lands designated for farming, such as fields, orchards, vegetable gardens, meadows, etc., or non-arable land like grazing land, gulches, slopes, etc. Agricultural land can be used for farm produce and pasture in ways which do not harm the fertility of soils or public health.
1.Agricultural land may not be land located within the boundaries of urbanized territories, defined by a DTCP or designated circles.
2.Agricultural land may not be land included in the forests fund.
3.Agricultural land may not be land built-up with buildings of industrial or other business companies, rest homes and health institutions, religious communities and other public organizations; or turned into yards or warehouses of such buildings.
4.Agricultural land may not be land occupied by open mines, pits and quarries, power, irrigation, transport or other equipment for public use, or a pertaining part to such equipment.
Yards of co-operatives or parts of them which are outside the built-up areas of settlements are agricultural lands if they have not been built up and are suitable for farming. Lands on which there are installations and equipment which have been scrapped, and lands built up with negligible buildings, may be rated as agricultural land, if they are suitable for farming.
 Provided that this procedure is successfully finished and reviewing ends with approval, then investor may begin building and erection works.

Building works can be executed on agricultural land requiring either change or no change of land status.
I.Land with no change in status is allowed to be built up in accordance with their purpose of use as follows:
1.With land plots of up to 10decares(1hectare), you can build one-storey buildings with built up area of 35m2 for the storage of farm produce and tools, including a residential area. Such buildings cannot have a permanent status.
2.With land plots over 10decares:
a)You can build premises to store farm produce, equipment, as well as an engineering network.
b)You can build residential buildings for the land owners or leaseholders  and such buildings are built on a place intended for building (yard for building or farmer’s yard).
You will need a permit only if the building(s) bear the characteristics of solid structures.
When the land plot is within the boundaries of settlements, then the chief architect of the municipality approves it. In big cities which administratively are divided in districts, the district council may authorize the district architect to grant approval. Having obtained the approved investment project, permit to build, and protocol defining building size, the investor may commence construction and erection works.
It is not binding to obtain a permit to build for:
1.external and internal painting of buildings and premises; replacement of roofing materials; interior renovation when it does not affect the building structure or it does not involve removal or position change of existing outer walls or boring holes in them (if they may weaken the building structure) and when the purpose of rooms  and loads in them remain unchanged; routine repairs of buildings, equipment and installations; elements of the technical infrastructure (providing layout and technical characteristics remain unchanged); roads (if road beds remain intact); monuments; conservation and restoration of facades of buildings which are cultural monuments having neither world nor national importance.
2.Permits for new construction will not be issued when the investor has an authorized building on the same plot for which he applies for a new building unless he removes the illegal building or legalize it. Such an obligation does not affect persons different from the perpetrator of the unauthorized building.
3.The permit to build is considered null and void, if construction has not started within 3 years from date of permit issue, or if the skeleton of the building, including the roof, has not been completed within 5 years from date of issue of the permit. In such cases building can be renewed after update of the permit, but failure to do so within one year will make the project null and void.
Applications for permission to start building together with applications for approval of investment projects are to be entered in the municipal or district office. If an applicant has first received approval for the investment project, then they must enter the application for permission to build within one year from the date of approval of investment project.
Applications for permission to build projects of the technical infrastructure of size and significance to more than one municipality must be addressed to the regional governor’s office, and in the case when projects spread over more than one region or the entire country, they must be filed with the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works.
When the law does not provide for approval of the investment project and the permit to build is issued on the grounds of the filed application and a document to prove ownership, created right to build or right to build on another person’s land property by virtue of special law.
Basically, the permission to build covers the entire construction, but the investor can apply for permission to build    on separate stages (parts) those parts which can be used independently. With residential buildings each stage(part) must be completed in terms of spatial and architectural, and façade completion of each finished stage of construction.
The permission to build will contain all factual and law-abiding grounds for its issuance, and the conditions to be fulfilled during construction, including the disposal of the soil layer excavated and removing or keeping of existing buildings until construction is completed. The permission to build is issued together with the approval of the investment project or within 7 days from date of application, if it is filed individually.