Summary:

The authors analyzed the legal regulations, technical and administrative proceedings held on the exclusion of agricultural and forest land from appropri-ate production. This allowed to identify not only the problems which arise during the implementation of act on the protection of agricultural and forest land, but proposals for their solution as well.
The paper presents the current procedures related to the change in use of agricultural and forest land that are made in the local spatial plan. The reduction in the amount of agricultural land in Poland is also noted in the study. Another problem described in this work is the issue of identifying the classification con-tours boundaries when finishing investment process. The attention has also been paid to the synchronization of legislation on grounds and buildings cadastre and the law on the protection of agricultural and forest land.