The reform of the proceedings and competences of the agrarian judiciary in Costa Rica

Abstract

This article deals with the administrative judiciary in the Costa Rican legal system. The aim of the study was to present the peculiarities of the regulation of administrative judiciary which, in the context of the expansion of agricultural law covering the regulation of private law and public law, should be made distinct and separate. The concept of agrarietà has been fully implemented in Costa Rican agricultural law and now the Code of Agricultural Proceedings contains new criteria for distinguishing between judicial decisions in agricultural and administrative matters. The decisive criterion for determining the agricultural nature of a matter is the substantive or material content of the asserted claim in an agricultural or rural development dispute. An agricultural matter will be, for example, tracing the origin of agri-food products.