Publications and Talks of John Booth

Legal issues relating to agri-photovoltaic installations
(Booth/Heise in Agrar- und Umweltrecht (AUR), 2025, p. 122 ff.)

Legal issues relating to wind turbines in forests
: Deutscher Waldbesitzer 1/2024

Ground-mounted PV installations:
Berlin Forum 2023: ‘Solar Parks – Is It All That Simple?’ organised by the DBV, the DGAR and the Edmund Rehwinkel Foundation, 20 November 2023

‘Wind energy in forests: Legal issues from the landowner’s perspective: What forest owners should bear in mind when drafting contracts.’
Presentation given at the AGDW Forest Symposium, amongst others, on 8 September 2023 in Braunschweig

‘Tax implications of leasing agricultural land for the construction and operation of ground-mounted photovoltaic systems’
– article in AgrB – Agrarbetrieb, Issue 4-2023, p. 215

“Ground-mounted PV systems – tax issues and legal solutions”
Lecture delivered at the 77th Agricultural Law Seminar organised by the DGAR/DAA on 27 September 2022 in Goslar

“Agricultural Land Ownership * Protection under Article 14 of the Basic Law against the backdrop of society’s demands on agriculture”

Presentation delivered at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s agricultural policy forum on 19 September 2022 in Rostock on the topic “Current challenges facing agriculture in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania”

“Ground-mounted PV systems and tax implications for landowners”
– article in Wochenblatt, issue 52, 30 December 2021

“Investment solutions for landowners – tax implications and pitfalls”
Lecture delivered at the online seminar on 8 December 2021 as part of the “Ground-mounted PV Plant” seminar series organised by HLBS Informationsdienste GmbH

“The Transfer Agreement – Selected Issues in Contract Drafting”
Presentation given at the digital event “Autumn Seminar” organised by Familienbetriebe Land und Forst on 7 December 2021

“The Climate Protection Act and the Federal Constitutional Court ruling of 24 March 2021 – Implications for agriculture and forestry –"
Lecture on 4 November 2021 at the general meeting of Familienbetriebe Land und Forst M-V e.V. in Güstrow

“Significant enforcement problem”
The federal states should be more creative than before in defining the desired agricultural structure and resolve the enforcement problems relating to land leases, says solicitor John Booth from Schwerin.
Interview in top agrar 5/2021

“Ground-mounted photovoltaic systems: What do owners need to bear in mind?”
Article in LAND 3/2021

A tight constitutional straitjacket – Agricultural land transactions in the debate
on land market policy Article in dbk 10/20

The actual value of the land is the benchmark for compensation
– Interview in ‘Businesstalk am Kudamm’ here

50 years of AUR
– Editorial in AUR, 9/2020

Significant hurdles to greater regulation
– Discussion on agricultural structure laws to curb
non-agricultural investors. Article in DLG-Mitteilungen 10/2020, pp. 20 ff.

Who is still allowed to buy land?
Article in *Bauernzeitung*, issue 17, 2019, p. 42 ff.

Reinstatement to the previous status due to failure to meet the appeal deadline in agricultural matters
– Article in *AgrB Agrarbetrieb*, No. 5/2019

Lease agreements for land for the construction of wind turbines
– Essay in *land*, April 2018

8th Symposium on Agricultural Law: Future Structures in Agriculture –
Responsibilities, Financing, Spaces
; Outlines of Watercourse Maintenance on 7 March 2018

‘Comments on the Federal Court of Justice’s rulings on the Land Transactions Act since November 2016’
AUR 2017, p. 416 ff.

‘Will the authorities soon be getting properly involved? – The Lower Saxony Agricultural Structure Preservation Act’
Article in DLG-Mitteilungen 7/2017, pp. 31–33

“Land Transactions Law and Land Lease Law in Germany”
Article in CEDR Journal of Rural Law 3/2017, pp. 54–61

“Land Lease Law – Recent Developments on Conclusion, Content, Enforcement and Notice”
Lecture delivered on 14 March 2017 in Göttingen on the occasion of the 11th BB Day organised by BB Göttingen GmbH

7th Symposium on Agricultural Law: “Upheavals” in agriculture –
economic and legal restrictions
; comments on the content and limits of the guarantee of property rights on 1 March 2017

“The Land Transactions Act – Are the existing regulations sufficient for a functioning land market, or are new regulations needed in the area of land transactions?”
Lecture on 21–22 November 2016 on the occasion of the autumn seminar organised by Familienbetriebe Land und Forst in Kassel

“The Land Transactions Act: A bulwark against land speculators or a toothless tiger?”
Lecture delivered as part of the seminar for lay judges in agricultural proceedings on 11 November 2016 in Stuttgart

‘The leasing of agricultural land in connection with its sale to non-farmers. The challenge to such land lease agreements under Section 4 of the Agricultural Land Lease Act (LPachtVG).’
Article in AUR 8/2016, p. 300 ff.

“Acquisition of agricultural businesses”
– Lecture delivered on 25 February 2016 at NORD/LB in Hanover

“The new inheritance tax is coming – should business transfers be brought forward?”
Lecture delivered on 17 February 2016 at the regional specialist event organised by the SHBB/LBV in Todendorf

“The Land Transactions Act – Structure, implications and reform efforts”
Lecture delivered on 24 November 2015 in Berlin, seminar for lay judges in administrative law and agricultural matters

“Expulsion and Reunification – The Struggle for Rehabilitation and Restitution”
Maueranker und Stier, edited by Christian von Plessen – 2015

“Valuation of Agricultural Land – Current Developments and Market Trends”
Lecture on 19 November 2015 as part of the HVB Agricultural Workshop in Berlin

“Assessment of the proposed courses of action for adapting land law instruments from an agricultural law perspective”
Presentation at the DGAR/DBV expert discussion with the agricultural divisions of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) and the Higher Regional Courts (OLG) on 3–4 September 2015 in Heidelberg

Efforts to amend the Land Transactions Act (GrdstVG)
– Lecture at the DGAR, Forum for Expropriation and Land Law in Goslar, 7 October 2015

“The CAP after 2013 – The new premium system”
Lecture to the Brandenburg Landowners’ Association in Potsdam on 16 May 2014

Symposium on the CAP after 2013 – Latest developments in state aid law
: Presentation at the symposium organised by the law firm Geiersberger Glas & Partner mbB, Rostock, 5 March 2014

“Succession in Agricultural Holdings – A Challenge for Both Generations”
Lecture at the North-West Mecklenburg District Farmers’ Association on 10 October 2013 in Grevesmühlen

Acquisition of former owners’ land/privatisation under the
Compensation Act – Article in *Bauernzeitung* 15/2013, p. 55

“Land Lease Agreements – Workshop on Land Lease Law for Nature Conservation Organisations”
Lecture at the NABU Foundation for National Natural Heritage in Berlin on 29 January 2013

“Current Issues in Agricultural and Environmental Law”
Lecture at the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg, on 25 April 2012

“Developments in land privatisation in the new federal states, taking into account the Second Land Acquisition Amendment Act (2. FlErwÄndG)”
AUR March 2012, p. 81 ff.

Biogas 2012
Symposium: Presentation on the topic: “CAP 2013 and its implications for substrate supply contracts” on 1 March 2012 at the Tri-Hotel Rostock (summary of the symposium)

Contribution to the *Munich Lawyers’ Handbook on Agricultural
Law*, Beck-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-406-60207-8

“Land Lease Agreements Under Scrutiny – The Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
– presentation at the BMVEL Future Forum during Green Week in Berlin on 26 January 2011

“Contract drafting for the marketing of rapeseed and wheat – Cereal contracts”
Presentation at the GBB’s spring conference on 10 March 2011

“Land Lease Agreements Under Scrutiny – The Most Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
Lecture at the BMVEL Future Forum during Green Week in Berlin on 26 January 2011

Controversial sales practice – Valuation by the BVVG
DLG-Mitteilungen 17/2010, p. 16 ff.

The Land
Acquisition (Amendment) Act, AUR 2009, pp. 322 ff.

“Substrate supply contracts for biogas plants”,
Bauernzeitung 2/2010

“The 2008 Reform of the Limited Liability Companies Act” and “The Land Transactions Act and its Application in Practice”
– presentations at the 2009 LMS Symposium for Business Management Advisers in Satow

The New Environmental Code
, DLG-Mitteilungen 9/08, p. 15 ff.

Pension planning for farm owners
– lecture at the Agricultural Advisory Service of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein in Klepelshagen on 6 May 2008

Preparing for business succession
: presentations at SHBB Schleswig-Holsteinische Buchführungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft mbH in Schwerin, Güstrow and Grimmen on 28 November 2007; 4–5 December 2007

Amendment of lease agreements
DLG-Mitteilungen, Issue 12, 2007, page 13 ff.

Latest developments regarding the BVVG (Business Pension Act) and privatisation
: DLG-Mitteilungen, Issue 12, 2007, p. 26 ff.

Conversion
law: Consultancy conferences organised by LMS Landwirtschaftsberatung Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania GmbH, 4 September 2007

Latest developments on CAP reform
– Presentation at the specialist conference of the Working Group on Legal and Environmental Issues of the Forest and Landowners’ Associations on 22 March 2007 in Kassel

Legal situation regarding premium trading
: DLG-Mitteilungen, Issue 2, 2006, p. 24 ff.

Trading in payment entitlements following the CAP reform
*Bauernzeitung*, 23 December 2005, p. 21

CAP Reform – Payment Entitlements/Single Farm Payment as Collateral
for Loans: Presentation at the Genossenschaftsverband Norddeutschland e.V. on 11 October 2005 in Klein Plasten

The new premium legislation in the conflict between landowners and tenants
– Lecture delivered at the conference of the Expert Committee on Agricultural Land and Expropriation Law of the German Society for Agricultural Law in Goslar on 27 September 2005

Water services under the EU Water Framework Directive
: A mandate for the legislature and the water sector
General Assembly of the Hessian Forest Owners’ Association, 15 July 2005

The EU – Agricultural Reform
: BVVG Legal Working Group, 27 April 2005

‘Transfer of agricultural assets within the framework of anticipated succession’
– Lecture by LMS – Agricultural Advisory Service Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania GmbH – Bad Doberan, 9 October 2004 and 11 October 2004

Land Registry Law
, LMS Agricultural Advisory Service Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania GmbH, September 2004

“The EU Agricultural Reform and its Impact on Land Ownership”
– Expert Committee on Land and Expropriation Law of the German Society for Agricultural Law, Goslar, 6 October 2003

“Property and Land Lease Transactions
: Legal Issues Relating to Land Use for Wind Turbines and Other Forms of Energy Generation” – Classification under planning law, shared use for agriculture and other
purposes, Saxony State Training Centre Reinhardtsgrimma, Reinhardtsgrimma, 2 April 2003

Commentary on the Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling on the EALG
TOP Agrar Spezial, Issue 1, January 2001, p. 3 ff.

Current developments in the preferential acquisition
of land: Agricultural Law Seminar organised by the DGAR/DAI in Goslar, 2 January 2001