Legal consequences arising from the existence of safety zones pipelines are facedin practice quite often both investors and experts, owners and users of real prop-erty (especially land plots) or potential candidates for their purchase. The factthat real property is encumbered by these zones, implies awhole range of restrictions on their use. The paper deals with legislation providing for these restrictions, which is in force since 1st January 2016, in particular with issues arisingby establishment and cancellation of the safety zones, with possibilities to per-form ownership rights in these zones and with relation of the safety zones vis-á-vis institutes of private law (in particular easements). The article also points toexisting decision making of the courts on these issues.