Land rights

[Nicos]

We have a small area of field behind our house and the local farmer has access to grazing.

When we bought the house and land we asked the notaire if the farmer would still have rights to access for grazing if we decided to use it ourselves.

He said the area concerned would be too small to cause problems.

Now then....we are considering asking that farmer if we can buy a bit of his land to enlarge our tiny field.

Does anyone know at what point ( ie size of land) the farmer would have rights of continued access for his cows???

Also- when we bought our house and land it was automatically sent to SAFER to see if it should be offered to the local farmers first( and it wasn't)

At what size does the property/land need to be before it would be offered to the local farmers if we chose to sell it??