To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Amendments to Law 17/2014 brought by Law 175/2020 became effective in February, as secondary legislation was published in the Romanian Official Gazette on February 8, 2021. The chief innovations in the new legislation are: Extending the list of pre-emptors from three to seven categories; Extending the pre-emption period from 30 calendar days to 45 business days; Creating a new category of preferential specialized buyers, which have an extra 30 business days following the pre-emption period to exercise their right to buy; For leaseholders to qualify as pre-emptors, there are the requirements: to have a valid lease agreement in force for the land being sold for at least one year before the farmland sale offer is published;for leaseholders and their controlling shareholders