SPÖ: “Reform of the basic traffic law superfluous”
politics
Instead of changing the land transfer law, the authorities should finally implement the existing rules for agricultural land sales. The Salzburg SPÖ is now demanding this. Because as the RH report shows, existing legal provisions have simply not been implemented.
“Farming land in the hands of farmers” – this principle of the Salzburg Land Traffic Act was only partially implemented in practice. According to the state audit office, this is now also criticized by the Salzburg SPÖ. In the unpublished rough report by the Court of Auditors on agricultural land sales in Pinzgau, the work of the Real Estate Commission in this district is criticized.
The Commission’s decisions are largely incomprehensible and therefore do not comply with the requirement of the rule of law, the examiners write.
Argarlandesrat Josef Schwaiger (ÖVP) has therefore already announced a reform of the basic traffic law. But for the SPÖ member of parliament Karin Dollinger, this is a diversionary maneuver. The problem is not the wording of the law.
“Change is of no use if implementation does not fit”
“A change in the law will be of no use as long as it is not implemented properly. Because then I can write into a law what I want if it is not implemented. That’s exactly how it should be here. The Court of Auditors is now working on this systematically. There should be hundreds of cases where something happened that shouldn’t have happened. All in all, this results in a great deal of space that has fallen into the wrong hands and is now not being used as it should have been,” says Dollinger.
For the members of the state parliament, what is needed now, above all, are uniform guidelines from the state of Salzburg for all district basic traffic commissions so that the decisions are more uniform and comprehensible.