Acta Iuris Stetinensis

The aim of the article is to examine whether the provision of Article 8a of the Act on modelling the agricultural system concerns the supervision or control of the National Agriculture Support Centre (KOWR) over the performance of obligations of an agricultural real estate’s buyer. In addition, the study aims to explain KOWR’s rights with respect to this buyer and to examine what will determine the future recovery of agricultural property by KOWR acting on behalf of the State Treasury when it is found that the property is not used in accordance with the obligations set out in the Act on modelling the agricultural system. The research is carried out using the following methods: examination of the law in force, analysis of judicial decisions and relevant literature. The analysis demonstrates that KOWR cannot issue any binding orders or recommendations for an agricultural real estate’s buyer, i.e. it does not have any supervisory measures, therefore the provision of Art. 8a of the act concerns control, and the legislator used the concept of supervision in this provision wrongly and unnecessarily. Moreover, it is clarified that if an inspection demonstrates that the buyer uses the agricultural property contrary to the provisions of the Act, it does not mean that the State Treasury will regain it, as KOWR may not have the financial resources to pay the market value of the property pursuant to the provisions of the Act on real estate management.