For the purposes of this regulation, in addition to the concepts defined in article 3 of Law 9036, the following shall be understood as:
1. Accretions (Accesiones): All those elements that are incorporated into a real property and that become part of it by being attached to it, by human action or nature.
2. Agrarian activity: Is the development of a biological cycle for the production of plants, animals or other organisms as a main activity, those connected to it of transformation, industrialization, valorization and commercialization of agrarian products, as well as those auxiliary to these, referring to acts and contracts inherent to the exercise of agrarian activity and rural development.
3. Extraordinary acquisition: That acquisition of real property carried out by the Institute for reasons of convenience, utility, public interest, or for the purpose of resolving precarious possession conflicts, or by application of articles 44 and 66 of Law 9036 or for any other cause permitted and contemplated in the current legal system.
4. Ordinary acquisition: Is the acquisition of real property carried out by the Institute with the purpose of providing the land resource for the execution of an approved project or one that is in the process of approval and for the attention of the institution's own programs.
5. Admissibility (Admisibilidad): Analysis of compliance with the general requirements to access the services and benefits provided by the Institute that will be defined in this regulation.
6. Family farming (Agricultura familiar): Is a way of life of families in rural territories including peasant, indigenous, fisherfolk, aquaculturists and silviculturists who, through their productive activity, generate food and services that contribute to food and nutritional security, both of the families and of the population. This includes a productive unit in which ownership, administration and work are predominantly and permanently family-based, occasionally employing labor external to the family group. It constitutes a continuum, from self-consumption systems to family production systems with market and resource sufficiency. Family farming promotes associative, integral and sustainable development, as well as the principles of fair trade.
Its cultural, environmental and economic bases are found in its family and territorial environment, it incorporates, values and respects all family members, from the perspectives of equity, inclusion and multiculturalism and promotes rootedness and identity for generational integration, with strict respect for the rights of children, the elderly, persons with disabilities and the legislation that protects them.
7. Area affected by restrictions: Corresponds to those areas of a real property that are subject to some type of legal restriction under the Forest Law, Water Law, Organic Law of the Environment, Law on Use, Management and Conservation of Soils and other applicable laws that establish restrictions on the acquisition, ownership, tenure, administration and use of land.
8. Lease (Arrendamiento): Modality of land allocation (dotación) by which the use and enjoyment of a property owned by the Institute is granted, in exchange for the payment of a fee (canon) for a determined period and compliance with a series of obligations, to a natural or legal person.
9. Assignment (Asignación): Modality of land allocation by which ownership of a parcel that belongs to the Institute is conditionally transferred to a natural or legal person declared as a beneficiary, in exchange for payment of the defined value according to the established term and compliance with a series of obligations.
10.Beneficiary: Natural persons contained in article 2 of Law 9036, as well as non-profit legal persons, are considered potential beneficiaries of the Inder, as well as associations that are not for profit and are regulated in different norms of the legal system, including, but not limited to, community-based groups, self-managed enterprises, peasant community enterprises, social solidarity economy enterprises and any other associative form carried out on a non-profit basis. Also, all de facto organized groups, such as de facto civil societies or any other that functions materially as an organized group without profit, may be beneficiaries, even if the formal procedures to constitute themselves as a legal person have not been completed.
11.Fee (Canon): Amount of the monetary quota for rental or concession, in arrears, that the lessee of a parcel allocated through the lease modality must pay, or through the assignment modality and that is in a trial period.
12.Census of occupants: is the census study to determine the conditions of areas occupied in a property, owned or belonging to a third party, or a settlement aimed at knowing the current condition of occupation or possession of the land and in which a preliminary mosaic is made, based on registry and cadastral studies, and such information is compared with the respective field inspections to prepare the definitive mosaic, which will serve as a basis for the start of the validation and sanitation process.
13.Directive Committee of the Territorial Council of Rural Development: Body responsible for the management, and representation of the Territorial Council of Rural Development in accordance with the competencies established in its Statute of constitution and operation, as well as this regulation and other applicable regulations.
14.Regional Development Council (COREDES): Regional Instance defined and coordinated by the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy (Mideplan) that articulates policies, plans, programs and institutional and interinstitutional projects, through the active participation of the different segments involved in regional development.
15.Territorial Council of Rural Development (Territorial Council): Territorial instance for coordination and articulation of rural development, whose establishment and coordination will be facilitated by the Inder.
16.Declaration of beneficiary: Is the administrative act that, based on the admissibility, suitability and legality studies, as applicable, determines whether the applicant meets all the requirements established to be considered a beneficiary of the approved project.
17.Land Allocation: Valid and effective administrative act issued by the Board of Directors of the Inder through which the Institute allocates to a person the land resource under any of the modalities permitted by law, be it use permit, concession, lease or assignment in ownership to be used in the development of a project, or to resolve a land possession conflict, by recognition of decennial possession or for any of the other purposes permitted by law.
18.Requirements Compliance Study: Technical study carried out by the Inder to determine compliance with the requirements that must be satisfied by the natural or legal person interested in accessing any of the services provided by the Institution in rural territories.
19.Suitability Study: In productive or service projects that include land allocation, it is the technical study carried out by the Inder through the evaluation of the natural person applicants, under the parameters defined by the project for which they are being evaluated and that can determine if the applicant has the necessary skills, knowledge, aptitudes and abilities for the execution of the proposed project. If they do not have the skills or abilities, the Institution must seek a way to approve the study.
20.Feasibility of the project: Through the formulation of diverse studies, the structural capacity of a project is defined where it is demonstrated that the investment of resources allows the generation of capital returns and benefits or counter-benefits in rural territories. Within these diverse studies are, but not limited to, the following studies: market, technical, legal, organizational and financial, economic-social and environmental evaluation, the depth of which will be determined by the reasonable assurance that allows making the investment decision. Feasibility will be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to determine the viability of the project.
21.Social function of property: Conception of property from a social and economic point of view, in the sense that it imposes an obligation on its owner to convert the property into a productive good or one of productive aptitude, as well as the obligation of the State to endow all subjects who do not have productive goods, or have them insufficiently, and who have the capacity to develop a business activity, with those goods so that the subjects can join the productive process, developing humanly on social and economic planes.
22. Regional Instance: Regional administrative unit responsible for coordinating and supervising the processes of territorial rural development, in the terms of article 4 subsection c) of Law 9036, for each of the regions established by Mideplan.
23. Institute: Rural Development Institute.
24.Law 2825: Land and Settlement Law (ITCO), of October 14, 1961 and its reforms.
25.Law 8131: Law on Financial Administration of the Republic and Public Budgets.
26.Law 8220: Law on the Protection of Citizens from Excessive Administrative Requirements and Procedures.
27.Law 9036, Inder Law or Law: Law on the Transformation of the IDA into the Inder Number 9036 of May 29, 2012 and which entered into force on November 29, 2012.
28.LGAP: General Law of Public Administration.
29.Useful and necessary improvements: All expenses indispensable for the conservation of the thing shall be considered necessary improvements, and those that have increased the market value of the thing shall be considered useful improvements. They are those that can be used in the execution of the purpose of the project or activity that gave rise to the allocation and that it was necessary to introduce in order to execute it and that allow maintaining the productive capacity of the property or increasing it.
30.Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG): as rector of the national agricultural sector, is responsible for the formulation of rural development policies.
31.Territorial Office: Administrative unit located within a Regional Instance, responsible for coordinating and executing the rural development process in the territory, in the terms of article 4 subsection c) of Law No. 9036 in each of the territories defined by the Inder.
32.Legal person: For the purposes of Law 9036 and this regulation, legal persons are legally constituted non-profit organizations, regardless of whether they receive income or not. Commercial companies are considered for-profit legal persons.
33.Applicant person: Natural or non-profit legal person who makes a request before the Institute to be subject to the benefits and/or services of Law No. 9036.
34.Territorial Rural Development Plan (PDRT): Planning instrument whose purpose is to guide the integral development of the territory, based on the identification of the needs and priorities for action that are generated from each territory.
35. National Development and Public Investment Plan (PNDIP)(*): Guiding framework of the Government of the Republic defined in the Regulation to the Law on Financial Administration of the Republic and Public Budgets, Decree number 32,988 H-MP-PLAN.
(*)(Note from Sinalevi: Its name thus modified by subsection a) of article 43 of the Regulation for the Implementation of Law No. 10441 of March 13, 2024 and the Operation of the National Public Investment System, approved by executive decree No. 45163 of August 8, 2025. Previously indicated as "National Development Plan (PND)") 36.National Territorial Rural Development Plan (PNDRT): National planning instrument, which defines the strategic actions and projects defined in the Territorial Rural Development Plans, in accordance with the State Policy for Territorial Rural Development (PEDRT), and within the framework of the National Development Plan.
37.Regional Development Plan (PRD): Medium and long-term planning instrument, -no less than 5 years, formulated under the technical coordination of Mideplan with the support of the institutions of the National Planning System (SNP), with the participation of citizen organization and governance and in accordance with national planning instruments. The Regional Development Plan is the guiding framework of the Development Region, which operationalizes the National Strategic Plan, the National Development Plan and other national, regional, territorial and cantonal planning instruments, thereby concertedly establishing the corresponding policies, plans, programs and projects.
38.State Policy for Territorial Rural Development (PEDRT) 2015-2030: Conceptual and normative framework in matters of rural development that allows the definition of strategic actions and projects of regions and territories, by the social actors, for their subsequent incorporation into the National Development Plan.
39.Direct Possession: Exercise of possession over a real property in a direct and very personal manner, whether because one is the possessor or owner thereof and is exercising possessory acts, in person, as owner as a habitual activity, directing the activity of the agrarian or rural development enterprise. Direct possession allows the exceptional contracting of labor to complement one's own.
40.Indirect Possession: When the person is the owner or legal possessor of a property, but is not exercising possessory acts over it, but has the right to exercise them and is in charge of the activity of the agrarian or rural development enterprise habitually, and uninterruptedly.
41.Possessor: Any person who occupies a real property for more than one year and exercises acts of possession, directly or indirectly, over it.
42.Executable project: Is the project that has been analyzed and endorsed by the Rural Development Fund, taking into account its feasibility and viability.
43.Project: Set of interrelated efforts, background, studies and activities, to obtain a product, achieve defined objectives with a determined period, cost, resources and scope, directed at a group of beneficiaries in order to solve problems, take advantage of opportunities, satisfy needs and generate economic, social and environmental impacts on rural development.
44.Owner: One who has the right of ownership and has the property registered in their name.
45.Development route: Process of intervention, both for natural and legal persons, in which the set of services, from both the Inder and other public or private actors, is established in a structured and systematic manner, in addressing their problems, needs or opportunities in order to generate improvements in their economic or social conditions. This will be one of the possible strategies for approaching the potential beneficiaries of the institute and will be considered as a project.
46.Private sector: Natural or legal persons that are not considered public entities and that are duly classified as micro, small or medium-sized producers for the purposes of the Inder.
47.Sepsa: Executive Secretariat for Agricultural Sector Planning, advisor to the Rectorate of the Agricultural and Rural Sector, is the sectoral instance for the coordination and articulation of the sector and the construction of its policies.
48.Services: Set of programmatic offerings that the Institution develops with the objective of satisfying the needs or deficiencies of the rural population for their development.
49.Seteder: Technical Secretariat for Rural Development, stipulated in Chapter IV, Section VII of Law 9036.
50.De facto society: Are groups of persons that function materially and collectively as a society without having met the formal requirements established by the Law to be recognized as a legal person.
51.Sufficiency and aptitude of lands: Is the determination made on the real property that the applicant person directly or indirectly possesses, whether a natural or non-profit legal person, to define whether it is sufficient and suitable for carrying out the project or not.
52.Territoriality (Territorialidad): Geographic unit of planning, composed of a social and institutional fabric, in which mainly rural activities are developed, whose construction must occur in a consensual manner with social actors, taking into account social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental factors that are common among the population that coexists there.
Promoting social inclusion and sustainable development processes with the active participation in decision-making of the actors belonging to the territory.
53.Single parcel: corresponds to an undivided property or one that could be legally or materially divided into one or several sectors due to the construction of roads, geographic accidents or other type of legal restriction but that corresponds to a single productive unit and/or a single land allocation.
In the case of a settlement that originated according to an orderly subdivision based on the corresponding studies, the single parcel shall be determined based on the established parcel distribution.
54.Updated value of the property: Is the purchase cost of the property updated to present value according to the Consumer Price Index established by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC).
55.Viability of the project: Is, on one hand, the possibility that a project has to create relationships and articulations with the actors involved in a project to achieve the objectives, eliminating threats and taking advantage of the opportunities imposed by the environment and, on the other hand, the sustainability capacity that the project has. The depth of the viability analysis will be determined by the reasonable assurance that allows making the investment decision according to the nature of the project.