Analysis of Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure in the SEE Region

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1 Analysis of Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure in the SEE Region June 2016

2 Publisher: DRŽAVNA GEODETSKA UPRAVA Republic of Croatia State Geodetic Administration Gruška 20, HR Zagreb Hrvatska / Croatia For publisher: Danko Markovinović Editor: Sanja Zekušić Design: Tomislav Ciceli Alan Čaplar Prepress and printing: Urednik d.o.o., Zagreb ISBN: CIP record is available in the Online Catalogue of the National and University Library in Zagreb under No Organization committee: Danko Markovinović, Ph.D, State Geodetic Administration MSc. Sanja Zekušić, State Geodetic Administration MSc. Tomislav Ciceli, State Geodetic Administration Ariana Bakija Lopac, State Geodetic Administration Antonio Šustić, State Geodetic Administration Violeta Dančuo, State Geodetic Administration Vesna Husnjak, State Geodetic Administration Technical committee: Sanja Zekušić, State Geodetic Administration Tomislav Ciceli, State Geodetic Administration Ariana Bakija Lopac, State Geodetic Administration Antonio Šustić, State Geodetic Administration Lidija Krstevska, Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia Xhevair Llakaj, Central Office for Real Estate Registration of the Republic of Albania Slobodanka Ključanin, Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Muzafer Qaka, Kosovo Cadastral Agency Mirjana Ljumović, Real Estate Administration of Montenegro Božidar Pavićević, Real Estate Administration of Montenegro Velibor Vitor, Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Saša Đurović, Republic Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia Dritan Prifti, State Authority for Geospatial Information of the Republic of Albania Tomaž Petek, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia Vilma Jan-Špiler, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia

3 Content Foreword 5 Introduction 6 Abbreviations 7 Agenda of the Conference 8 Analysis of Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure in the SEE Region 10 Section 1: Organisation Section 2: Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update Section 3: Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (i) alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data Section 4: Analysis of Status of basic topographic map in Western Balkan Countries Section 5: NMCA legal framework Section 6: Status of key registers Section 7: Private sector Section 8 & 9: Purpose of the land administration system and Land administration Reform program Section 10: Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Section 11 & 12: Analysis of Land Administration in the Support of Strategic Investments and the Most Important Improvements Last Year in the Western Balkan Countries Section 13: Status of Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) in the region Annex: Results of the questionnaire by institutions in alphabetical order 74 Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia - AREC State Authority for Geospatial Information of the Republic of Albania ASIG and Central Office for Real Estate Registration of the Republic of Albania IPRO Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Kosovo Cadastral Agency - KCA Real Estate Administration of Montenegro - REA Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Republic Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia - RGA Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia - GURS State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia - SGA

4 4 Analysis of Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure in the SEE Region - June 2016

5 Foreword Danko Markovinović, PhD, director of the State Geodetic Administration Dear friends, Esteemed colleagues, Welcome to Croatia, welcome to Opatija, the city hosting the 9th Regional Conference on Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure June The topic of this year s Conference is»geospatial data in the service of strategic projects and economic development. Today, the following words can be heard all the time... development... investments... employment... strategic projects... And there is one thing linking all of them geospatial data. Commercial development of geospatial infrastructure serving as a basis of economic development and social stability, and creating conditions for efficient spatial management must be the main guidelines for all countries caring about their spatial planning, economic development, progress, and a better future. Environmental concerns and interoperability of geospatial and economic data for better utilisation of national resources constitute special parts of good planning. An important role in national geodetic agencies strategies is played by raising awareness about cadastral and land registry data, providing a basis for their safe use and sustainable development, as well as building trust in key land registers. National geodetic agencies/administrations play a crucial role in the collection, processing, analysis and distribution of data, being at the service of their citizens and institutions on an everyday basis. What gives special value to our institutions is the exchange of knowledge and experience, training, and cooperation on the local and regional levels. Our IMPULS Project serves as a particular incentive, as projects implemented and results achieved provide added value to our countries development, greatly assisting us in the implementation of European guidelines and the INSPIRE Directive. I am also using this opportunity to sincerely thank our dear friends and colleagues from Sweden s Lantmäteriet for their support and funding in the realisation of this project, in which the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia is a partner, with the beneficiary countries. I would like to thank everyone who has been involved in organising this Conference, the guests, participants and presenters, all colleagues form the institutions who have put a lot of effort in preparing and analysing the Questionnaire, and prepared overviews of the situation in their countries. This analysis will be of great help in making strategic decisions, conducting business analyses, and providing a better insight into improving spatial data and their implementation in the society. I wish all of you successful work and spending a good time together. Sincerely, Danko Markovinović 5

6 Introduction Sanja Zekušić, State Geodetic Administration Analysis of Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure in the SEE Region was developed as a basis for the 9 th Regional Conference on Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure and represents the status in these areas in the following countries in the region of the South East Europe (SEE): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo 1, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. During the preparation of this document, the following institutions responsible for registration of real estate and spatial data infrastructure were included (in alphabetical order): Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia, Central Office for Real Estate Registration of the Republic of Albania, Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo Cadastral Agency, Real Estate Administration of Montenegro, Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia, State Authority for Geospatial Information of the Republic of Albania, State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia. The 9 th Regional Conference on Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) entitled»geospatial data in the service of strategic projects and economic development«is held on 16 th - 17 th June 2016 in Opatija, Croatia. The goal of the Conference is to exchange the knowledge and experience gained in the implementation of cadastral reform and the establishment of spatial information infrastructure, with a particular emphasis on using geospatial data in the support of public and private investment and economy, including strategic projects. The conference is organized under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and in partnership with the regional IMPULS Project. Along with representatives of the above mentioned institutions, the participants of the Conference include representatives of cadastre and mapping institutions from Sweden Lantmäteriet, and Norway Kartverket, FAO and the World Bank, the European Commission - DG Environment, EuroGeographic, Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE), the United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) and European Land Information Service (EULIS). The 1 st Regional Conference was held in Opatija in 2008, organised by the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Recognizing the need to continue this kind of cooperation, the above mentioned institutions organised the following Regional Conferences: in Ohrid (2009), Bečići (2010), Bled (2011), Banja Luka (2012), Belgrade (2013), Tirana (2014) and Priština (2015), thus making this gathering traditional. 1 This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/99 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence 6

7 For the purposes of the first six Conferences, and with help from sponsors, Regional Studies on the Cadastre and SDI were produced. Issuing these Studies was supported by members of the Permanent Technical Committee, established at the 2 nd Regional Conference in Ohrid. Despite the fact that, due to financial constraints, the Study on Cadastre and SDI was not produced in the last two years, institutions have accepted the proposal of the State Geodetic Administration for a renewal of the practice of convening the Technical Committee with the task of preparation of a joint review of the most important activities in the field of cadastre and SDI. As a result of this collaboration, a questionnaire was prepared that served to conduct an analysis of the organisational structure of the institutions; progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre; status of development and implementation of electronic information services; status of basic topographic map; legal framework; key registers; private sector; purpose of the land administration system and land administration reform program; status regarding supporting to the strategic investments and the most important improvements and status of SDI in the region. Abbreviations AREC ASIG FGA GARS GURS Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia State Authority for Geospatial Information of the Republic of Albania Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and Council of 14 March 2007 for establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information within the European Community IPRO Central Office for Real Estate Registration of the Republic of Albania KCA Kosovo Cadastral Agency NMCA National Mapping and Cadastre Authority RGA Republic Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia REA Real Estate Administration of Montenegro SDI Spatial Data Infrastructure SEE South East Europe SGA State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia 7

8 Agenda of the Conference June 15, 2016 Social event; Welcome drink at 19.00; June 15, 2016, Hotel Royal - Holiday Platz June 16, :30 9:00 Registration of participants 9:00 9:45 Welcome speeches: Peter Wasström, Lantmäteriet, Head of International Service Department, Sweden Mirjana Čagalj, Vice President of the Croatian Chamber of Economy for Construction, Transport and Communications Renata Duka, Ministry of Justice, Assistant Minister Danko Markovinović, State Geodetic Administration, Director-General Lovro Kuščević, Minister of Construction and Spatial Planning Session 1 Priority activities of institutions in the region regarding geospatial data in the service of strategic projects and economic development 9:45 10:00 Challenges and lessons learned in supporting strategic investments, Antonio Šustić, Ariana Bakija Lopac, State Geodetic Administration 10:00 11:00 Round table: Geospatial data in the service of strategic projects and economic development, NMCA s directors 11:00 11:30 Coffee break & Photograph of all participants 11:30 13:15 Presentation of Questionnaire results, NMCA s representatives - members of Permanent technical committee 13:15 13:30 Discussion 13:30 14:30 Lunch break Session 2 International projects 14:30 15:00 IMPULS project achievements and future plans, Lennart Johansson, Lantmäteriet, Sweden, and Amir Sogojeva, Kosovo Cadastre Agency 15:00 15:20 Norwegian funded projects in the Balkans now and for the coming years, Helge Onsrud, Kartverk, Norway 15:20 15:35 Discussion 15:35 15:50 Coffee break 8

9 15:50 16:10 Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina CILAP project second phase, Denis Tabučić, Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 16:10 16:25 Map based solution for registering companies in Albania, Sonila Jazo, consultant to Norwegian funded projects in Kosovo and Albania 16:25 16:40 Discussion 16:40 Closing of the 1 st day of the Conference Social event; Official Dinner at 20:00, June 16, 2016, Grand Hotel 4 Opatijska Cvijeta, Oleandar Bar June 17, 2016 Session 3 International institutions/organizations 9:00 9:20 Status and outlook of the INSPIRE Directive underpinning the EU SDI for egovernment and environment, Hugo de Groof, European Commission, DG Environment 9:20 9:40 EuroGeographics in 2016 what s in it for you, National Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Authorities in Europe and beyond, Mick Cory, EuroGeographics 9:40 10:00 The need for geospatial data management at national, regional and global level and how UN-GGIM could help to do this, Tomaž Petek, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia 10:00 10:15 Discussion 10:15 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 10:50 Technology Support to Improve Governance of Tenure, FAO and World Bank support, Rumyana Tonchovska 10:50 11:00 Council of European Geodetic Surveyors CLGE, Maurice Barbieri 11:10 11:30 EU e-justice programme, Julie Barry, HM Land Registry for England and Wales, EULIS Board member. 11:30 11:45 Discussion Session 4 Closing session 11:45 12:15 Conclusions and Closing of the Conference 12:15 13:00 Extraordinary meeting of IMPULS Directors and NC s 13:00 14:00 Lunch 9

10 Analysis of Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure in the SEE Region Section 1: Organisation Section 2: Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update Section 3: Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I ) alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data Section 4: Analysis of Status of basic topographic map in Western Balkan Countries Section 5: NMCA legal framework Section 6: Status of key registers Section 7: Private sector Section 8 & 9: Purpose of the land administration system and Land administration Reform program Section 10: Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Section 11 & 12: Analysis of Land Administration in the Support of Strategic Investments and the Most Important Improvements Last Year in the Western Balkan Countries Section 13: Status of Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) in the region 10

11 Section 1: Organisation Muzafer Çaka, Drenushë Januzi, Kosovo Cadastral Agency 1. Describe the responsibility of your institution The main responsibilities of national mapping agencies of Western Balkan countries are: The maintenance of surveying and Real Estate Cadastre, which includes: monitoring, identification and recording of technical changes on the land, buildings and other utilities that have an impact on the data surveying and Real Estate Cadastre. Manage the geodetic-cadastre information system; Perform basic geodetic works; Perform real property survey; Perform survey and maintenance of the state borderline; Perform geodetic works for special purposes; Perform mass valuation of real properties registered in the real estate cadaster; Perform address register system etc. Surveying and Real Estate Cadastre Mapping National Spatial Data Infrastructure Utility cadastre Mass valuation Addresses register Institutions responsible AREC, FGA, GARS, GURS, IPRO- ASIG, KCA, RGA, SGA, REA AREC, FGA, GARS, GURS, IPRO- ASIG, KCA, RGA, SGA, REA AREC, FGA, GARS, GURS, IPRO-ASIG, KCA, RGA, SGA, REA IPRO-ASIG, KCA, RGA, SGA, REA, AREC AREC, RGA AREC, GARS, KCA, RGA, SGA No. of institutions

12 2. Describe the organizational structure of your institution In the table below it is shown the core organizational structure of institutions Sector s/ Directories Legal Mass real estate valuation Information Technology System Cartography Finance Real Estate Cadastre and Geo-information Institution part of which is the sector/ directorate GARS, IPRO- ASIG, KCA, RGA, SGA, AREC GURS, AREC GARS, IPRO- ASIG, KCA, RGA, REA, AREC, SGA FGA, GARS, GURS, IPRO- ASIG, KCA, RGA, REA, SGA, AREC FGA, GARS, KCA, SGA FGA, GARS, GURS, IPRO- ASIG, KCA, RGA, SGA, REA, AREC No. of institutions

13 3. Position of the institutions within public administration (under which ministry or independent) Most of the institutions are within the Governments of respective countries, specifically Ministries. GURS and KCA are part of Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning. IPRO is part of Ministry of Justice; meanwhile ASIG is State Authority finance by state Budget, under the State Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation. Two other institutions are stand-alone institutions supervised in their work by Ministry of Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure (RGA) and Construction and Physical Planning (SGA). REA is within the Ministry of Finance AREC reports directly to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia. FGA and GARS are the two independent/self-governing institutions. 4. Number of staff and their qualifications In the first chart it s presented an overview of the total number of employees in each of these countries, whereas in the second chart are presented (in percentage) the types of qualifications of employees per each institution. 13

14 5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) The registration of property rights in different countries is carried out by different institutions. For example in: Slovenia - land book (registry) at Supreme Court is responsible for the registration of real property rights, organized at 44 district courts as evidential departments. Kosovo - for the maintenance of the register are responsible KCA and 38 MCOs. Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - until full establishment of REC, property rights will be gradually moved from land registry to real estate cadaster and GARS is responsible for both registers. Montenegro - the responsible institution for the registration of property rights is REA. 14

15 Croatia - The Land Registration Management Service (LRMS) is a special unit within MOJ responsible for managing the Land Registry Offices (LROs) which are subordinate to the municipal courts. Albania - Ministry of Justice is responsible and it consists of the Central Immovable Property Registration Office and 35 local offices. Macedonia - is part of the GCIS - Geodetic cadastre information system which contains data on real property rights, property rights holders and spatial and descriptive data for the real properties. Serbia - RGA it s responsible among others for renewal and maintenance of real estate cadaster. Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina the BiH s land register management is the responsibility of municipal courts that provide services of real estate registration and the right to the same. 6. Number of staff and their background education at the institution responsible for carrying out the registration The institutions below are not part of the chart because they provided data related to education level which is part of question 4: State Geodetic Administration (SGA),Croatia Republic Geodetic Authority (RGA), Serbia State Authority for Geospatial Information/Immovable Property Registration Office (ASIG/ IPRO) - Albania Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs (FGA) -Bosnia and Herzegovina - In land registry offices in FB&H, there are 166 employees, out of which 139 or 84% are land registry clerks who had passed the exam, and 27 or 16% are the administrative staff. 15

16 Section 2: Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update Velibor Vitor, Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia, (AREC) Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs (FGA), Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of Republika Srpska, (GARS), Bosnia and Herzegovina 100% Real estate cadastre is established on the entire territory of Republic of Macedonia 25% with annual increase throw establishment of Real estate cadastre and throw harmonisation activities of RERP projects (Real Estate Registration Project supported by World Bank credit) and other initiatives. 26% In the Republic of Srpska the transition from a dual real estate registration system (the land book, as ownership evidence and cadastre, as technical evidence, all administered by GARS) to a single real estate registration system (the Real Estate Cadastre (REC)) is on-going. This transition was facilitated by a new Law on Survey and Cadastre of Republic of Srpska. Real estate cadastre with harmonized land book (according to former legislation from and 1996.) - 20% New real estate cadastre according to The Law on survey and cadastre (2012.) - 6% 16

17 Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia. (GURS) State Authority for Geospatial Information/Immovable Property Registration Office (ASIG/IPRO) - Albania 100% A digital cadastral representation of land parcels and buildings was produced for the entire territory of the Republic of Slovenia. The Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia together with Land Registry is responsible for maintenance of cadastral and ownership data in Slovenia. Cadastral maps were produced for the entire territory of the Republic of Slovenia for the last 200 years and was digitized in period from % The register of immovable property, administered by IPRO, includes all information related to the immovable property identity of its owner, the boundaries of the property, the date of registration and the relative deed of ownership acquisition and plans that show the location of property. In addition, any mortgage, easement, usufruct, right to use or any other right connected to or deriving from the immovable property ttop of Form Bottom of Form hat is transferred to any third party, should be recorded in the register. Kosovo Cadastral Agency, (KCA) 75 % System of land administration consists of the Cadaster (providing information on the location of immovable property, the shape and boundaries) and immovable property rights register (providing information on property rights, restrictions, and responsibilities). Maintenance of records and registration of the immovable property is executed by the Municipal Cadaster Offices (MCO), which, although they are under the organization of the municipal assemblies in professional level are monitored by KCA. MCOs duties are: preparation and registration of property and property rights to the cadastral register Republic Geodetic Authority (RGA), Serbia Real Estate Administration of Montenegro, (REA) State Geodetic Administration (SGA), Croatia 99% (territory of Kosovo and Metohija is not included in percentage) The Real Estate Cadastre provides a unified system for registration of real property and is maintained by RGA. Number of parcels: 18,806,093 Number of constructions: 4,695,786 housing: 2,050,010 auxilliary: 1,809,345 other: 836,431 Number of parts of construction: 1,014,898 apartments: 853,397 offices/shops: 88,486 other: 73, % of properties are covered by up to date, harmonized cadastre register, but in different types of cadastre 27% Real estate cadastre with harmonized land book 17

18 2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia, (AREC) Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs (FGA), Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of Republika Srpska, (GARS), Bosnia and Herzegovina Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia. (GURS) State Authority for Geospatial Information/Immovable Property Registration Office (ASIG/IPRO) - Albania AREC enabled merging of the attribute database and graphic data in a single centralized base for data management. Total of 1844 cadastral municipalities have been imported to MAK EDIT, (licensed software) i.e. 98,67 % of the overall territory of the Republic of Macedonia. As far as the centralized database is concerned, a total of 1762 cadastral municipalities have been entered, i.e. 96,08 % of the territory of the Republic of Macedonia Approx. 70 % Approx.70 % All data, geometric and descriptive, are in the same database. The textual part is about 98% populated, while about 75% of the spatial data is in the data base. There are a considerable consistency issues between the spatial and textual data, while the internal consistency within the same data types are generally good. The data is continuously updated through real estate cadastre establishment transactions. The data model is harmonised with ISO standard, with some local variations. 100% covered the territory of the Republic of Slovenia but some does not have adequate positional accuracy for all todays users purposes and needs % Kosovo Cadastral Agency, (KCA) 100 % Republic Geodetic Authority (RGA), Serbia 57% 18

19 Analysis of Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure in the SEE Region - June 2016 Real Estate Administration of Montenegro, (REA) Real estate cadastre: 68 % Data prepared for Real estate cadastre establishment: 22 % Old (census) cadastre: 10 % State Geodetic Administration (SGA), Croatia 100 % 3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources in Euros Total budget in million Euros Sources (in Euros) 19

20 4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any AREC Capacity building projects financed by SIDA Holland NSDI project INSPIRATION Project RECPR Project additional financing - financed by World bank IMPULS project FGA CILAP Swedish support IMPULS Swedish support to WB region INSPIRATION Project EU IPA funds Ortophotomaps EU IPA funds BIHPOS EU IPA funds RERP WB funds Public services for real estate market and EU integration Norwegian support GARS RERP Project (Real estate registration project) World Bank credit funds ( ) under implementation, CILAP Project(Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina) Kingdom of Sweden government donor support ( ), extended implementation period, IMPULS Project (Cooperation in the Western Balkan region - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the region of Western Balkan) The Kingdom of Sweden support to Western Balkan region - donor project( ), Public Services for the Tangible Property Market and European Integration, The Kingdom of Norway donor project ( ), INSPIRATION Project EU IPA funds Orthophotomaps creation for B&H EU IPA funds GURS»Modernization of spatial data infrastructure to reduce risks and impacts of floods«, EEA Financial Mechanism Programme, ASIG/IPRO ALBPOS, Lantmäteriet (SIDA), »Creation of Geospatial Information Infrastructure in Albania, support from Government of Norway, KCA Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project (RECAP), World Bank Human Resource Development Project on Geo Spatial Information of Kosovo - KCA, Japan International Cooperation Agency,

21 Support to Kosovo - KCA Cadastral Agency, Government of Norway, Support to the implementation of the unified address system in Kosovo - KCA, European Union, RGA World Bank funded project - REMP (October 1st, 2015 December 31st, 2020) Impuls project (June 2014 December 2018) ELF project (since January 21st, 2016) REA World bank loan Land administration management project LAMP (December December 2009) Cooperation with Norwegian Government Digital Archive Project ( ) INSPIRATION project ( ) Impuls project (June 2014 December 2018) SGA Projects that supports SGA (SGA as beneficiary): Integrated Land Administration System (ILAS), financed by the EU pre-accession fund IPA I 2010 and the state budget ( ) Integrated Land Administration System financed by the World bank loan (IBRD Loan HR) and the state budget ( ) INSPIRATION project ( ) SGA as junior partner in implementation of the projects: Organization, Streamlining and Computerization Process in Mapping in the Republic of Moldova, Project is funded from European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument 2011 ( ) Impuls project, SIDA founded project, (June 2014 December 2018) 5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so AREC Project proposal - Update of the NSDI Strategy submitted to the Dutch foreign office FGA Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs has recently signed agreement for continuation of Swedish support until end of Negotiations are ongoing for new contribution from Norwegian Government and extension of RERP (WB funded) project. GARS CILAP-2 Twinning project supported by SIDA. Last month Republic Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs of the Republic of Srpska has signed agreement for continuation of Swedish supported CILAP Project until end of

22 Project for preparation of Flood Hazard Maps and Flood Risk Maps financed by Western Balkans Investment Frameworks with expected results: maps, LIDAR data for river basins. GURS Preparing new project proposal called espatial,. Project will be financed by Operational Programme for the Implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy in the Period in amount in period ASIG/IPRO Land Administration and Management Project (LAMP), World Bank KCA Application for new continuation RECAP 2 World Bank Project Application for new project from Government of Norway RGA There are no such activities REA There are no such activities SGA SGA is in the process of preparing the projects for financing from European Social Fund (ESF) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Projects that will be financed form ESF are focused on the development of human capacities of the SGA, while the ERDF projects are focused on Strengthening ICT applications for e-government. 22

23 Section 3: Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I ) alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data Božidar Pavićević, Real Estate Administration of Montenegro Very important part of NSDI - development and implementation of electronic information services is covered by survey conducted among regional cadastre/mapping/sdi institutions representatives and in this chapter comparison overview of provided answers is presented Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data Almost all countries from region has developed functional services for providing access to cadastral data through Geoportal or as standalone services. Situation with land registry data is little different one third of countries still does not provide online access to land registry data. 23

24 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness Geographic coverage and completeness of cadastre and land registry data in region is very good. There is just two cases, in two countries, where we have graphical data coverage less than 70% Data access pricing policy and prices Data access pricing policy differs among countries in region depending on types of users, data usage purpose and data access formats, so it can be categorized according to: type of data user: government bodies, public institutions, private companies, citizens; data usage purpose: non-commercial, commercial, public, scientific; data access formats: online forms on web applications, web services. All countries have regulations regarding price for data access, in case it should be charged. According to information collected by survey we can summarize received answers in chart below. 24

25 3.4. Data access restrictions Data access restrictions are derived in regional countries according to different legislation. Most of them have restrictions regarding access to personal data, and common case is that data access must be provided because of legislation covering free access to public data. Situation regarding data access restrictions is also very different, starting from no restrictions at all to very detailed and restricted data access. Some countries have introduced specific regulations on data access restrictions which covers: terms and conditions, technical specification of data access, conditions for obtaining user accounts, necessary agreement for data use, restrictions on data reuse and redistribution, etc Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service Download services are available in four countries. In three of them services are developed for or used by government institutions or some other authorized public institutions, and in one country they can be used by any type of user Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? Exchange data formats and datasets are mostly uniform for all users, but in some countries specific datasets and services are developed for specific types of users. This uniform data formats are based on local regulations or INSPIRE specifications, and some agencies are providing data in custom exchange formats for specific users and usage. Conclusion Status of development and implementation of services for data users are on different levels among countries in region, but in most cases strategy and work plans exists and commitment is visible. Lack of service implementations is some countries is caused mostly by insufficient resources, no harmonized data and uncompleted legislation. Although now we can see big differences in implementation status and data access and pricing policies among countries, thanks to increased awareness, knowledge exchange and regional projects like IMPULS, some positive trends can be identified, like common goals and convergent development in some areas in countries in region. 25

26 Section 4: Analysis of Status of basic topographic map in Western Balkan Countries Slobodanka Ključanin, Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1. Which digital topographic data are available? In the Western Balkan mapping agency/geodetic administration the most common digital 1 topographic maps are of the scale 1:25000 (89%), 1:50000 (78%) and 1:5000 (67%). Also important is the use of digital orthophoto in scale 1:5000 (67%) and digital orthophoto for urban area (the scale is larger than 1:5000) (78%). Other products are less common, depending on the individual agencies/administration. 1 The term digital includes digital raster and/or vector chart format of topographic maps. 26

27 2. Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? Of the nine agencies, only two replied that they have no ongoing program of production of new topographic maps. 3. To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? Orthophoto coverage is complete (100%) for the therritory of given agency/administration Western Balkan countries. The two agencies do not have a recording from the air (22%), and others have different cycle of recording (2-8 years). The most represented resolution of images is 50 cm, followed by 20/25 cm, and rarely have a resolution of 10, 40 and 60 cm. The best resolution images (8 cm) are used by agency KCA and ASIG/IPRO. 27

28 4. Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? Two agencies/administrations do not have laser scanning program, the other two have a partial program. Partial program implies that laser scanning is used for particular projects. The rest five agencies/administrations have a program of laser scanning (lidar). Results of laser scanning are used mainly for the purposes of risk management, renewal of cadatral information, infrastructure projekts, DOP productions and enviromental atlases. 28

29 Section 5: NMCA legal framework Lidija Krstevska, Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia 1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) New legislation is in the place in most of the countries, main legislation for performing responsibilities of the NMCA is the cadastre and land registration act, most of the acts are enacted in the past 2-3 years. Establishment of the NSDI and implementation of the INSPIRE directive is the responsibility of the NMCA s, the laws on NSDI are also considered as a main legislation. 2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) There are number of other laws, ordinance that are regulating the cadastre and land registry issues. Most listed laws : Law on Construction; Law on construction land; Law on Planning and Development; Land Register Act ; Agricultural Land Act etc. 3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements In all countries there is a legislation that regilates this area, the process of legalisation of informal building and settlements is ongoing process in most of the countries, the role of the NMCA s is to record geodetic reports and acts for legalisation of the illegal buildings. FB&H reported that the process of legalisation is not under jurisdiction of FGA, while Montenegro reported that legislation is in preparation. 29

30 4. Availability of main legislation In all countries legislation is available on the official NMCA s websites, legislation is avaiable at least in two languages. 5. Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure Both, cadastre and surveyours is acting s a service and data providers. 6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years Most of the countries provided total number of the registered /legalized buildings for the past 4 years. 7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry It is obvious that institutional framework is determined by historic background, so unequal approaches are detected. In, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Srpska only one authority is responsible for cadastre and registration of real property rights (land registry). In Srpska process of merging has been completed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia still have a dual system in place. 30

31 7. A Re-organisation merging of cadastre and LR In Bosnia and Herzegovina new draft Law on Geodetic Survey and Real Estate Register (FBH, 2013) is in the procedure with a basic objective to establish unified registration system with an integrated real estate database. In Croatia process of merging of cadastre and land registry is planned to start in 2017 with adoption of the Action plan, prior to this the State Survey and Real Property Act, the Land Registration Act and other regulations will be reviewed, new institution is planned to be established by December 2018 and physical merger of cadastral and land registry offices is planned to be finalised, by In Slovenia, there was several initiatives to merge cadastre and land registry in one single institution but unfortunately this process failed due to the fact that the legal procedures for running this process has been stopped. 31

32 Section 6: Status of key registers Xhevair Llakaj, Central Office for Real Estate Registration of the Republic of Albania Overview Having in mind the role of key registries as fundamental part of building the NSDI and the role the Directive Inspire plays in this process, IPRO is trying to analyse the information collected from the institutions of the Western Balkan Countries for the status of these registers, according to the questionnaire prepared for the 9 th Regional Conference. Even though we have not found a definition of what the key registers mean, in this document key registers will be defined as a national information systems that houses essential data for the public sector and identify the basic units of society. These basic units include natural persons, juristic persons, communities, buildings, real estate, etc. Key Registers are of both areas, that of geographic information and that of non-geographic information. Some of Key Registers would be: Register of Administrative Units Register of Population Register of Addresses Register of Cadastre The Trade Register Register of Buildings Register of Geology Etc. These registers can be separate ones, or incorporated within the same data base. Register of Immovable Property in Albania, for instance, keeps within the same data base register of parcels, register of property ownership and that of buildings. State-of-play of key resisters Referring to Table 1,»Is there a regulation regarding the key registers in the national level?«, 1. Is there a regulation regarding the key resisters on the national level? 1.1. KCA No 1.2. FGA No 1.3. IPRO/ASIG Not a specific regulation, but Yes for Data Specification for the Spatial Data 1.4. GARS No 32

33 1.5. RGZ No 1.6. GURS No 1.7. SGA No 1.8. AREC No 1.9. REA Currently there is no specific regulation that covers key registers on national level. There are different thematic laws that stipulates creation and maintenance of separate registers by separate institutions: Central register of citizens Register of administrative units Real Estate Cadaster Address register Register of legal entities Typically, it is observed that in all the Balkan Countries there is not a specific law for the status on key registers, but legal basis are distributed by various public institutions, which are described in Table 2, Registers for which your institution is responsible. 2. Registers for which your institution is responsible 2.1. KCA Real property rights register (land registry) Parcel, building and parts of building (apartments) register Registration of mortgage register Address system register 2.2. FGA Real Estate Cadastre database Administrative units database 2.3. IPRO/ASIG ASIG reports for status of all 34 data Themes mentioned in the INSPIRE directive and by law 72/2012. IPRO is responsible for one database that includes: Real property rights register (land registry) Parcel, building and parts of building (apartments) register Mortgage register 2.4. GARS 6 different registers of land administration(real Estate Cadastre-REC): REC based on new survey with ownership, REC based on new survey with users, Census cadastre with Austro-Hung. old maps or even without maps, Land cadastre based on Austro-Hung. old survey, Land cadastre based on new survey, Land register, Communal utilities cadastre, 4 different public registers Central address registers, Register of spatial units Register of geographic names Register of real estate prices (in preparation phase) 33

34 2.5. RGZ Real Estate Cadaster Address Registry Spatial Units Register Utility Cadaster Register of Geographic Names 2.6. GURS ZK - Land cadastre (GURS) KS - Buildings cadastre (GURS) ZK GJI - Public infrastructure cadastre (GURS) REN - Real estate register (GURS) DOF - Digital orthophotos Digital terrain Model CRS - Coordinate reference system register ETN - Real Estate market registry RPE - Register of spatial units EZI Geographical names Register DTB - Topographical database 2.7. SGA Key registers on the national level Real property (land) cadastre Spatial Units Register Other registers which our institution is responsible Register of Geographic Names DOF5 DMR Register of Licensed Surveyors Base of topographic maps Permanent Geodetic Points Database 2.8. AREC REC real estate cadaster Graphic registry of construction land, Spatial units registry, Graphic registry of streets and house numbers 2.9. REA Real Estate Cadaster Address Register Register of administrative units Utility Cadaster where the data registers contain can be characterized as comprehensive, accurate and complete. Moreover, it appears that data are versitale and suitable for a large number of users and applications, as reflected in Table Who are the key users of registers of your institution? 3.1. KCA Citizens, Government Institutions, Private Sector, Students International institutions and NGO s 34

35 3.2. FGA Government Ministries, Agencies and other Administration institutions Private sector Educational institutions The public - citizens 3.3. IPRO/ASIG Citizens, Government Institutions, Private Sector, International institutions and NGO s 3.4. GARS Government Public agencies Local administration Business Citizens 3.5. RGZ Governmental organs (ministries and special organizations) Local governments Public enterprises Banks Geodetic organizations Law firms Realtors Citizens 3.6. GURS Public administration, private sector (used for investments and for providing services) general public 3.7. SGA Public administration bodies State agencies Public companies Local and regional government units Business entities Citizens 3.8. AREC Government Public agencies Local self-government Notaries, Private surveyors, Business Citizens 3.9. REA Government and public institutions Municipalities Notaries Geodetic organizations Law firms Banks Citizens The use of these data is made on the basis of agreements, taking into account the relevant laws of each country for the ways to use the data and obligations and limits for the sensitive ones. 35

36 If separate key registers are covering specific areas, such as a single system, all key registers cover all key areas of the administration. Refering to Table 4, from the information gathered, exchanging of registers data is different in different institutions. 4. Exchange of registers data of your institution? 4.1. KCA There is ongoing a discussion between KCA and Civil Registration Agency for linking registers 4.2. FGA Not at this point in time IPRO/ASIG ASIG - There is an ongoing process with the other institutions There is an ongoing discussion between IPRO and Civil Status Register Agency 4.4. GARS Currently there is not exchange of registers data 4.5. RGZ There is some data exchange of key registers within RGA jurisdiction. Users are mainly governmental institution like Ministry of interior, Serbian Business Registers Agency, etc GURS Free inside public administration, on the basis of a written requests or service level agreements SGA Public administration bodies send requests in writing, data submitted on portable media, free of charge Local and regional government units and public companies sign agreemens, data submitted on portable media, fee is charged 4.8. AREC Interconnection and use of registers and data bases between state administration bodies and institutions Interoperability project Implementation of this project enables inter-electronic data exchange between state administration bodies and institutions that are of importance in performing their functions, and contributes to quality, economic and efficient operation. he Pilot-project has been performed in 5 state institutions: Ministry of Interior Affairs Central Register Agency of Real Estate Cadaster Customs Office and Public Revenue Office 4.9. REA Currently there is no systematic exchange of registers data But the information as a whole, is vital not only for land administration, but for society in general, and is that the government ensures its validity for governmental institutions. For this purpose projects would serve to increase the level of interoperability between the key registers. As it is evident from the Table 5, in different countries there is different level of key registers interoperability. 36

37 5. Do you have projects for connecting of registers interoperability? 5.1. KCA Yes under development 5.2. FGA Yes Real Estate Registration Project 5.3. IPRO/ASIG Yes under development 5.4. GARS No, we have intentions to connect main registers, as one of results of establishment of geospatial data infrastructure of Republic of Srpska GSDI RS. It is also part of e-government strategy of Government of Republic of Srpska RGZ Yes. Real Estate Management Project in Serbia (WB Project) 5.6. GURS Yes 5.7. SGA No, we have intentions to connect the main registers, It is part of the e-government strategy 5.8. AREC Yes, interoperability project phase 2 Aditional 18 institutions will be involved REA Yes, project started by Ministry for information society and telecommunications creation of universal system for interoperability and data exchange of registers between government and public institutions Suggestions Since there are many governmental databases, administered by various public organizations, for the establishment of key registers are suggested these conditions to be completed (according to the cases of each country): Regulation and establishment of key registers is done by the law Financial regulation for the establishment and maintenance of key registers is in place Public institutions are obliged by law to use key registers Public Users are obliged by law to report errors or other irregularities Legal responsibility is held by public institutions for information provided Well-defined content of data sets and availability of catalogs are provided Clear standards and procedures for the distribution of data are in place Quality of data is ensured Accesibility of information is guaranteed The involvement of public institutions is an obligation Relations between key registers are defined such that:»capture data once, use them many times«control and responsibilities are coverd by relevant public institutions 37

38 Section 7: Private sector Saša Đurović, Republic Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia 1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? Positiv response has been recieved by all institutions. Conclusion is that this area is covered by adequate regulation. In most cases this is regulated by Law. 2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors Licensing is mainly within competence of cadastral and cartographic institutions. Also, Chambers of Engineers take significant role. Only in one case licensing is on Ministry level. 38

39 3. For what activities are licences issued Licenses are issued for performing professional geodetic tasks in land administration, geodetic works in engineering and technical fields, surveying etc. All surveying companies are engaged in same kind of geodetic works, only regulation is more or less detailed. 4. Number of surveying companies There are 1851 surveying companies in the region. There is no information about profiles of employees as well as information how many companies have their branch offices in other regional countries. 5. Number of licensed geodetic surveyors There are around 3000 licensed geodetic professionals in geodetic companies. What we did not learn from the questionnaire are their qualifications. Conclusion is that most companies rely on very small number of licensed professionals. 39

40 Section 8 & 9: Purpose of the land administration system and Land administration Reform program Tomaž Petek, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia Overview Land administration should be designed to meet the needs of people and their relationship to land, to support security of tenure for all and to sustainably manage land use and natural resources. The primary purpose of land administration system is the support for processes of recording and disseminating information about the ownership, value and use of land and its associated resources (UNECE 1996). Besides its primary purpose, a land administration system can also serve as a basis for land management as an important instrument for the implementation of land policy contributing to comprehensive land governance. Land administration is the way in which the rules of land tenure are applied and made operational. Land administration, whether formal or informal, comprises an extensive range of systems and processes to administer. The processes of land administration include the transfer of rights in land from one party to another through sale, lease, loan, gift and inheritance; the regulating of land and property development; the use and conservation of the land; the gathering of revenues from the land through sales, leasing, and taxation; and the resolving of conflicts concerning the ownership and the use of land. Land administration functions may be divided into four components: Juridical, regulatory, fiscal, and information management. These functions of land administration may be organized in terms of agencies responsible for surveying and mapping, land registration, and land valuation. The following are analyzed answers of all geodetic administrations from Western Balkan region concerning Purpose of the land administration system and Land administration Reform program. State-of-play about Purpose of the land administration system 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system Based on responses from questioner we could conclude that property rights and ownership protection is on the first place if we asking for purposes of land administration system. On the second place we could mention secure investment or financial and taxation stability and on third place we could find some other purposes. The attached table presents the responses of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 40

41 1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system RGZ Reliable property rights and property transactions registration Collecting taxes based on up-todate cadastral data Decision-making using quality geoinformation ASIG/ IPRO 1. tenure of property rights 2. tax for properties 3. transactions on properties GARS Ownership protection Secure Investments Secure transactions FGA Juridical, Regulatory, Fiscal, Information management AREC Real property rights registered Updated and secured ownership records Accurate cadastre data Comprehansive registration of data related to cadastre parcel, buildings and apartments, utility cadastre, morgages, restrigtions and collateral right GURS Registering spatial objects and placement of recorded objects into space Maintenance of core data for spatial data infrastructure in Slovenia Managing a common coordinate system for all measurements in the nations (transformation from D48 - Gauss Kruger into D96/TM ETRS89) SGA Ownership protection Secure Investments Secure transactions and others KCA Surveying and mapping Registration of real property rights Land valuation REA Spatial planning Environment protection Sustainable development 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? In all agencies from western Balkan region land administration system serve for taxation purposes. Here are the answers on this question, which give as some additional explanations. The attached table presents the responses of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 41

42 2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? RGZ Yes Yes. Property information is being delivered to the Tax Administration ASIG/ IPRO Yes Yes The information on attributes of property, geoinformation, surface, etc. is used for taxation GARS Yes Yes, by providing information about real estate and property to the tax authority and citizens too FGA Yes Indirectly by providing information about real estate and property AREC Yes Yes, by providing information about real estate and property to the tax authority, valuators, local self government and citizens GURS Yes Indirectly, taxation of real estate is currently in the jurisdiction of each individual municipality. The municipalities CAN use data for ZK, KS and REN for the purpuses of taxation (nadomestilo uporabe stavbnega zemljišča). A proposed new real estate tax was repealed by the supreme court. SGA Yes Yes, by providing information about real estate and property to local self government and citizens KCA Yes Yes. Cooperation on providing Geospatial information REA Yes Cadastre records is being delivered to the Local Tax Administration offices, at the beginning of each calendar year 8.3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? Cadastral maps are basiss for urban planinng in almoste all countries in western Balkan region. Only one country reported that this is not the case. The attached table presents the responses of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning RGZ Yes ASIG/ IPRO No GARS Yes FGA Yes Yes, RECDB is used very often in the process of urban planning AREC Yes Yes, centralized Registry for construction land is established and managed by AREC. This Register provides complete standardization and unification of all types of urban plans, urban-planning documentation and urban-project documentation GURS Yes SGA Yes Yes. Cadastral maps are mandatory in detailed urban planning and make an integral part of any documentation used for the implementation of spatial planning documents KCA Yes REA Yes 42

43 State-of-play about Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration reform program exist in your country? From the answers given in the questioner we could conclude that land administration reform program exist in 2/3 of countries in Western Balkan region. The attached table presents the responses of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 1. Is Land administration reform program exist in your country? RGZ ASIG/ IPRO Yes Yes GARS No No, our related program is with exact name Program on survey and real estate cadastre establishment FGA Yes AREC Yes Yes, it is part of the Strategic program of the Government of the R. of Macedonia 2014/2018 GURS No SGA Yes After the successful completion of the Real Property Registration and Cadastre Project (January 2003-June 2010), The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development has continued to support the land administration reform in the Republic of Croatia. The amount borrowed from the Bank for the Integrated Land Administration System (ILAS) Project (November April 2017) is 16.5 million EUR. Co-financing from the Croatian Government amounts EUR 1.9 million. The Project stakeholders and fund beneficiaries are the MoJ and SGA. The objective of the LAS Project is to modernize the land administration system in order to improve on the civil service from the point of view of efficiency, The Project includes four components: Component A: The land registration system development focusing on simplifying and automating the land registry system managed by municipal courts. The initially planned activities encompassed scanning and digitization of land registry documents, improvement of the legal framework and additional preparation of the digital data to be migrated into the Real Property Registration and Cadastre Joint Information System (JIS). Component B: Modernization of the spatial information and cadastre system will be aimedat improving the quality and representation of spatial data managed and maintained by SGA and the implementation of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) in line with the EU INSPIRE Directive, support to the SGA in its restructuring, including improvements to business premises in 4 COs, Geoportal improvements and scanning of the cadastral archives. Component C: Improving digital services supports the additional JIS development and the completion 43

44 transparency and cost. The Key Performance Indicators are: Increased customer satisfaction with land administration services., Reduced transaction processing times in land registry and cadastre. Increase percent of customers lodging requests/transactions online, Increased use of shared spatial data by government agencies/mincrement of the JIS roincremental provision of electronic online services and eventually to electronic conveyancing. The equal treatment of all citizens regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or social status by accompanying technical field work with public awareness-raising, vulnerability mapping, and social monitoring functions is supported.ing and public awareness campaign support the Projectrelated training, training programs for the SGA and LRO employees; public awareness campaign and a small PIU. KCA REA Yes No 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system Driving forces for improvement of the land administration system usually are government s decision about improving real estate governance and legal framework. Usually this is done with some international project in the field of land administration (WB land administration projects etc.). The attached table presents the responses of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system RGZ ASIG/ IPRO GARS FGA AREC GURS SGA KCA REA Government of RS, RGA, responsible ministries, WB and donators Driving forces for improvement of LA could be: governance, legislation, development plans, business processes, human resource Strategic Goal 1: Achieving an efficient, reliable and safe system of unified register of real estate cadastre, as a single register in the The current period is marked by extremely satisfactory and synergetic cooperation on the Real Estate Registration Project (RERP) Government of RM, AREC, responsible ministries and donators In recent decades, it has been shown that a multipurpose land administration system, i.e. land cadastre, brings many advantages for The principal reason is to increase investments (in building) and enable growth of the real property market in a society in transition to Driving forces for improvement of LA could be: completion, governance, legislation, business processes definition, resources N/A 44

45 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented From the answers given in questioner we could find out that main programs through which reforms are implementing are World Bank or some other donor countries program regarding modernisation of land administration and land management. The attached table presents the responses of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented RGZ ASIG/ IPRO Real Estate Management Project in Serbia (WB Project) LAMP: Land Administration and Management Project GARS Program on survey and real estate cadastre establishment Program on survey and real estate cadastre establishment FGA AREC FGA is intensively involved in implementation of the World Bank RERP with land register and cadastre data harmonization on land, Improvement of the business environment and competitiveness GURS The main programs in the past was The Real Estate Registration Modernization Project ( ) financial support by World Bank loan and relised to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of real estate administration systems in Slovenia. There was eight main components. The land and building cadastre component prepares maps, improves cadastral maps, installs computer linkages to the land registry, and sets up a building register. The land register component removes backlogs in land registry offices, assists in computerization of the register, installs computer linkages to the cadastre, and improves registration. (more infor at: org/curated/en/2010/06/ /slovenia-real-estate-registration-modernizationproject) Second program was related with development and implementation of the real estate mass valuation system in the Republic of Slovenia and reform the current property taxation system. Within general real estate valuation procedure Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia performed valuation model s specification and calibration in many iterations, adjusted draft proposal of the valuation models with municipalities in 2009 and executed trial value determination in In the same period of time the Real Estate data Register was established and enforcement as a public register in Real estate data, including assessed value was until that time free of charge available on the internet. Transparency of existing situation in the field of real estate registration was gain many other reforms and activities within land administration system in Slovenia. SGA KCA REA Integrated Land Administration System (ILAS) Project, National program of improving cadastre and land registries on the islands, KOPOS, Cadastre, registration of real property rights, topographic digital maps, address register, NSDI N/A 45

46 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs Three most important issues high lilted in the program are: Efficiency and effectiveness of institutions dealing with land administrations Establishing NSDI or interoperability with realestate data and services Development of missing elements (real estate valuation, address register, digital cadastral maps...) The attached table presents the responses of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs RGZ 1. Institutional strengthening of the RGA 2. Information system of the Real Estate Cadastre 3. Development of the appraisal system ASIG/ IPRO Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of land administration and urban management through: enhancing tenure security, improving urban planning, land management and development control and supporting property valuation and taxation, and financing investments in urban infrastructure and services GARS Achieving an efficient, reliable and safe system of unified register of real estate cadastre, as a single register in the Republic of Serbian. Providing preconditions for real estate market and the creation of prerequisites for mass valuation of real estate in the Republic of Srpska. Establishment of Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Republic of Srpska. FGA New legal framework Establishment of up-to-date and interlinked databases Capacity building AREC Promotion of e-front desk for professional users as a measures to accelerate the registration of properties (2014) Digitalization of cadastral maps ( ) Establisment of the register of construction land, Adress register, establishment of utility cadstre as a part of REC, Register of prices and leases 46

47 GURS interoperability and data and service sharing relation with egovernment program transparency of land administration and real estate valuation SGA Establish a status in the registries corresponding to the legal situation on the ground and one harmonised between cadastre and land registries Provide quicker and more efficient services to customers Program e-administration KCA Kosovo Cadastre Land Information System (KCLIS), NSDI Address Register System REA N/A 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? Main aproach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights identied from answers given in questionary is finalisation of massive and systematic registration procedures and continue with regular sporadic registration in real time or within legal time frame. The attached table presents the responses of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? RGZ ASIG/ IPRO GARS FGA AREC GURS Pursuant to the Law on State Survey and Cadastre: state survey, real estate cadastre, utility cadastre, basic geodetic works, address register, topographic and cartographic activities, property valuation, geodetic and cadastral information system, and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure are of general interest for the Republic of Serbia. Systematic massive first registration for property titles, based on the parcel According to The Law on survey and cadastre of Republic of Srpska the main approach is through fully transparent legal procedures conducted by the authorized commissions verify harmonized data by public display and after all establish real estate cadastre, with data on maps and legal data (rights,responsibilities, restrictions) at one place logically (database) and physically (property sheet). The project activities focus on: real estate registration data development, real estate registration infrastructure development, and policy and institutional development. The objective is to establish up-to-date and interlinked land register and cadastre databases. Systematic registration of the real property rights and reambulation. And Centralized cadastre database Digitalisation and harmonization of digital cadstre data with real estate rights (ares of the cadastre parcels to be in favor to the real estae cadstre rights) With Government decision from 2010 Surveying and Mapping Authority and Supreme Court (Land Registry) established technical connectivity between land and building cadastre database and land registry database, which perform automatic exchange of data updating procedure. 47

48 SGA KCA REA Harmonisation of cadastre and land registries is carried out through sporadic registration, and through systematic land book and cadastre renewal Sporadic harmonisation is based on the interest of the real property owner Systematic renewal is carrid out based on annual and multi-annual programs Reconstruction of Cadastral Information (massive registration procedure N/A Conclussions: Based on responses from questioner we could conclude that property rights and ownership protection is on the first place if we asking for purposes of land administration system. On the second place we could mention secure investment or financial and taxation stability and on third place we could find some other purposes. In all agencies from western Balkan region land administration system serve for taxation purposes. Here are the answers on this question, which give as some additional explanations. Cadastral maps are basiss for urban planinng in almost all countries in western Balkan region. Only one country reported that this is not the case. From the answers given in the questioner we could conclude that land administration reform program exist in 2/3 of countries in Western Balkan region. Driving forces for improvement of the land administration system usually are government s decision about improving real estate governance and legal framework. Usually this is done with some international project in the field of land administration (WB land administration projects etc.) From the answers given in questioner we could find out that main programs through which reforms are implementing are World Bank or some other donor countries program regarding modernisation of land administration and land management. Three most important issues high lilted in the program are: Efficiency and effectiveness of institutions dealing with land administrations Establishing NSDI or interoperability with realestate data and services Development of missing elements (real estate valuation, address register, digital cadastral maps,..) Main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights identified from answers given in questioner is finalisation of massive and systematic registration procedures and continue with regular sporadic registration in real time or within legal time frame. 48

49 Section 10: Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT AREC ASIG / IPRO FGA KCA REA GARS RGA SGA GURS Population (million) 2,062,294 (year 2002) (year 2013) (year 2014) 7,470, (year 2014) 2,062,731 Area (km2) 25,710 28,748 26,110 10,908 13,812 24,641 88,499 56,594 20,273 Gross domestic product per capita (euro) 5, (nominal) 10,243 (PPP, year 2015) 4,605 (Nominal 2015) 7,123 (year 2014) 5.8 billion 5,635 (year 2014) 6,225 (year 2014) 4,400 10,177 (year 2014) 18,093 Number of parcels 4,047,456 3,016,000 4,997,695 2,080,000 1,590,100 Approx. 4,000,000 21,000,000 Approx. 14,500,000 5,508,954 % of parcels in rural areas 79.6 % 93% Not available 96% Approx. 80 % 80% 81% 61.35% 81.5% (agricultural census 2010) % of parcels in urban areas 17.5 % 7% Not available. 4 % Approx. 20 % 20% 19% 38.65% 18.5 % Annual number of parcel changes 128, ,364 55,000 Approx. 4,500 Approx. 30,000 16,505 Approx. 55, ,915 administrative applications in During the process of settlings those applications was made changes on more than 30,000 49

50 AREC ASIG / IPRO FGA KCA REA GARS RGA SGA GURS Annual number of changes in property rights 267, ,583 (year 2015) 35,000 Approx. 40,000 Approx. 70, , ,321 land registry casses in the year 2015 At land registry was solved 244,476 cases in year 2014, where 21,536 changes was based on Land cadastre and Building Cadastre automatic reported changes. Annual number of mortgages 9,000-12,000-38,324 (year 2015) 4,000 Approx. 12,000 Approx. 30,000 Approx.: 4,000 (year 2015) 69,614 Approx. 31,000 35,191 (year 2014) 50

51 Section 11 & 12: Analysis of Land Administration in the Support of Strategic Investments and the Most Important Improvements Last Year in the Western Balkan Countries Antonio Šustić, Ariana Bakija Lopac, State Geodetic Administration Introduction: The strategic direction of any country is a growth in investments, economic development and economic progress on all levels of the society. One of the main preconditions for investments is having reliable, up-to-date and available geospatial data. Another important step in investments is upgrading the form of use and interpretation of land administration data. The quality of land administration is the indicator of a responsible and transparent approach of any society and country concerned about economic growth and creating new value in the form of products, services, projects, new jobs etc. The legislative framework is an important part of the investment steps, and it should be simple, transparent and efficient. Unfortunately, this is not true in many cases, which hinders numerous investments with unnecessary administrative obstacles. Strong legislative reforms and changes are therefore needed to support free enterprise and greater competitiveness. This presents a big challenge for many countries, particularly those created from political systems where for many years attention was not paid to land data, ownership or the legislative framework. All of this makes a critical element of investments and economic development. For this reason, improving the quality of legislation inevitably impacts all levels of the society, with states facing ever greater challenges in responding to economic cycles and crises, innovation, societal changes, spatial planning, strategic investment, protection of environment and the constant search for sources of economic growth. It must be stressed that not even the best legislation can achieve much without up-to-date and high-quality cadastral and land registry data as the key parts of the land management system. Outdated and low-quality records in these registers create disruptions and delays in the market and economic development. Nearly all countries members of the Regional Conference have initiated and are implementing numerous projects that use advanced technologies and develop different business processes aimed at contributing to the development and modernisation of land administration. Significant results have already been achieved, but the land administration system definitely provides space for further development. With regard to strategic guidelines and economic development, in April 2016 the Croatian Government adopted the National Reform Program based on the four key areas of reform: Macroeconomic stability and fiscal sustainability; Easier business conditions and better 51

52 investment climate; Greater efficiency and transparency of the public sector; and Education for the labour market. An important part of the Program includes active implementation of European directives and their application in everyday life. Among other things, the Program points out that easier business conditions and better investment climate can be achieved by improving the cadastral and land registry system. For the purpose of presenting the current state and the activities that land administration and related data can implement to contribute to the development of investment climate and projects, following is an overview of the status in the countries members of the Regional Conference through characteristic questions and explanations. 11. Land administration in supporting strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by land administration? As it is impossible to manage space, plan investments and realise projects well without geospatial data, the role of national agencies / state administrations is recognised in terms of the quality of land administration. All countries agreed on this and stressed the importance of land administration support in the implementation of strategic projects. Most countries stated that this support is evident in planning and building road and railway construction, energy infrastructure, business zones etc. The attached table presents the answers of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 1. Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by land administration? Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS Albania IPRO/ASIG Serbia - RGA Building and modernising the second track of the Dugo Selo Križevci railway Modernising the Zaprešić Zabok railway Lowland railway Zagreb Rijeka Building the dr. Franjo Tuđman Airport Building the Rijeka Port container terminal - Brajdica Project of registering future motorways List at least max three strategic investments (highway, railway, utilities ) Hydro power stations on Sava River Railway (second line) Divača Koper Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) 1. Highway construction, corridor Highway construction, corridor Belgrade waterfront 52

53 Kosovo - KCA Macedonia - AREC Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro - REA Highway Prishtina Skopje Power Station New Kosova Agriculture Land Consolidation Process (Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Rural Development) Investments in highways, roads, railways Investments in energetic sector (gasline, electricity) 13 Technological Industrial Development Zone free zones in terms of the customs and tax laws Highway construction Infrastructure management Natural disaster risk management Investments in highways Investments in energetic sector Investments in natural disaster risk management Highway, Tourism development Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of strategic investments. The role of national agencies / state administrations in realising strategic investments is manifested in providing up-to-date and reliable data (e.g. alphanumerical and graphical parts of cadastral documentation, digital orthophoto (DOF), topographic map, digital relief model (DRM) etc.) from the official records, as well as data on ownership relations in the areas of interest for strategic investments. In some countries, prior analysis of initial data is conducted and, as needed, new spatial bases produced, including organising cadastral and land registry data in cases when the records do not show the actual situation on the ground. The attached table presents the answers of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 2. Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments. Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS Albania IPRO/ASIG Serbia - RGA Providing data from official records Organisation and participation in improving initial data in cases when they do not reflect the situation on the ground in relation to cadastre and the land registry Regular registration of real estate and in some cases provides projects related with improvement of positional accuracy of land cadastre maps in digital form. ASIG - Provide all geo-information from geoportal of ASIG. IPRO - Cadastral data about the property rights for the site where strategic investment is occurring. Preparing and issuing textual and graphical cadastral data 53

54 Kosovo - KCA Macedonia - AREC Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro -REA Provide geo-information and cadastral data about the property rights for the site where strategic investment is occurring. Support for the procedures of cadastre property formation and also support during process of expropriation AREC is performing as a data provider, dealing with the real property survey, preparing geodetic reports and if there are some changes on the terrain AREC is making evidence, registration of the real estate rights, issuing property certificates etc. Data providers. Data owner and provider. REA is providing base data and expertise for many types of strategic investments. Types of data and services provided by REA: Cadastral plans, property rights, DEM, DOF, topographic maps, valuation of real estates, geodetic works, In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? Most surveying and mapping authorities in the Western Balkans are involved in the planning and implementation phases, while in some countries those institutions participate in the execution and monitoring of investments, too, as well as managing them. The attached table presents the answers of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 3. In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS Albania IPRO/ASIG Serbia - RGA Kosovo - KCA Macedonia - AREC Project planning phase and obtaining necessary documentation Data recording phase for completed projects Planning phase or in some stage of implementation< or both. ASIG - Through the Geoportal, ASIG gives opportunity to citizens and public institutions to access Geospatial information IPRO Planning phase and in some stage of implementation. Both in planning and in implementation. Planning phase and in some stage of implementation. In the planning phase, mainly by providing data for the basic geodetic points, coordinates, extracts from the cadastre maps During implementation phase, real property survey and registration of the real estate rights 54

55 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro - REA Planning phase Implementation phase Maintenance and management Planning phase, mainly Implementation phase, if we are one of end users Planning phase and/or in some stage of implementation What are the biggest problems and obstacles related to LA data needed for the successful realization of strategic investment? Based on the collected answers, the biggest challenges and obstacles occur due to the lack of up-to-date and reliable cadastral and land registry data, as well as those on ownership. The issue of unregulated ownership relations must be singled out as a legacy of the former social system characteristic of all countries in the region. Also, there is a need to improve coordination in the processes of issuing documents required to start projects, which will in turn have a positive impact on the investment climate and business environment. The attached table presents the answers of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 4. What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS Albania IPRO/ASIG Serbia - RGA Biggest obstacles are related with long procedures regarding spatial planning process for biggest infrastructure objects. Problem of expropriation and compensation for it Biggest obstacles are related with long procedures regarding spatial planning process for biggest infrastructure objects. (many stakeholders and interest in the process). ASIG -Creating an integrated geo-information system in Albania under the INSPIRE Directive and the use of institutions and the general public.. Institutional coordination for the collection, processing and updating geospatial data as input for NSDI. IPRO- Update of Cadastral information The common problem is great volume of data and data quality. The lack of digital cadastral map impedes data preparation. Kosovo - KCA Update of Cadastral information Macedonia - AREC Updated cadastre maps and registered property rights 55

56 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro - REA Current legal framework, outdated and complicated procedures are obstacles in fast problem solving. The lack of up-to-date and interlinked land register and cadastre databases is evident. The major issue is inherited a large number of records with data that were different in accuracy, purpose, even the jurisdiction (examples of land cadastre, real estate, land register, a book contract for the purchase of apartments and business premises) as during the formation of the new, unified records of real estate registry requires a comprehensive harmonization of different information which in turn requires a lot of time. By establishing of new real estate cadastre register, it is expected that these problems will be solved because we are solving all inconsistencies during this process. Not whole country is covered by digital cadastral plans and Real Estate cadastre, sometimes precision of spatial data is not on required level, data about land use can be out-of-date, there is no systematic mass valuation of properties, List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years. Most countries highlight positive instances where the support of land administration authorities contributed to successful implementation of strategic projects. The role of land administration, i.e. the institutions, is particularly emphasised in the projects related to environmental protection, crisis management and support to infrastructural projects. The attached table presents the answers of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 5. List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years. Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS Albania IPRO/ASIG Building and modernising the second track of the Dugo Selo Križevci railway Modernising the Zaprešić Zabok railway Lowland railway Zagreb Rijeka Building the dr. Franjo Tuđman Airport Building the Rijeka Port container terminal - Brajdica Some examples of Hydro power stations on Sava River (Krško, Blanca, Brežice) ASIG - Through the Geoportal, supporting the strategic investments IPRO - Support with cadastral data on expropriation procedure for building highway Durres Morinë 56

57 Serbia - RGA Kosovo - KCA Macedonia - AREC Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro - REA Providing data/services important for implementation of the activities of strategic importance for the Republic of Serbia: Support in implementing the National Program for Crisis Management and drafting the National Risk Assessment (Government of Serbia, MoI Sector for Emergency Situations); Country Action Programme - Recovery of flood damages (IPA II), (Producing DTM for 75 significant flooding areas in the Republic of Serbia), Government of the Republic of Serbia; Implementation of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (Chapter 11: Agriculture and Rural Development, LPIS implementation (IACS part)), Government of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection; Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Changes (Government of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection); Implementation of the EU Directive on Birds and Habitats - NATURA2000 Project; Production of strategic noise maps; Support with cadastral data on expropriation procedure for building highway Vërmicë (Prizren) Podujevë Highways: SKOPJE-STIP, KICEVO OHRID TIRZ BUNARCIK Establishment of online services for data sharing has dramatically increased the productivity of FGA clients which use spatial data delivered by the Administration. Clients are provided with up to date harmonised data, which can be used in all phases of strategic Project preparation and implementation. Expropriation for: Highways: Banja Luka Doboj, Banja Luka Gradiška, 5C, Many regional roads Coal power plants: Stanari, Ugljevik Water power plants: Rudo Establishing of register price of real estate (in progress) Expertise in property valuation for investments in infrastructure and tourism, for example preparation of data and procedures necessary for highway building If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data In spite of all the challenges faced by the institutions as the providers of geospatial data and data on real property rights, no strategic project was listed as having failed completely as a result of data-related problems. Thanks to efforts by investors and the institutions, as well as other stakeholders, projects are still realised, if necessary with extensions of time. The attached table presents the answers of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 57

58 6. If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS Albania IPRO/ASIG Serbia - RGA Kosovo - KCA Macedonia - AREC Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro - REA N/A N/A No No No No, not officially published. Not available There is no such records officially published. No Conclusion: With regard to the implementation of strategic projects, activities should be focused on improving data quality for business processes in the land administration system. Support to and development of efficient land administration will ensure legal security, stimulate and accelerate the slowed investment processes, enhance exchange of data with all stakeholders and bring added value to business processes. The level of reliability can be increased through systematic and sporadic procedures of data improvement, harmonising cadastral and land registry data with the actual situation on the ground, and the eventual establishment of real property cadastre. 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? The answers show that the national agencies / administrations mainly focused on the improvement of land administration, data quality improvement, and acceleration of the real property registration processes in both the cadastre and land registry. Increasing the levels of legal security in real property transactions is emphasised in particulars, as well as rationalisation and simplification of business processes. The attached table presents the answers of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 58

59 The most important improvements in the last year 1. What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS Albania IPRO/ ASIG Serbia - RGA Kosovo - KCA Macedonia - AREC Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro Implementation of JIS in cadastre offices Preparation for espatial program of projects. First registration process The main focus was on the successful beginning of the World Bank funded project implementation and passing the Law on State Survey and Cadastre. Digital topographic map 1:25000 Address register Reconstruction of cadastral information in 50 Cadastral Zones Digitalization of cadastral plans and management of the centralized database from the Real Estate Cadastre Establishment of the Register for construction land Development of Distribution System of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastrehttp:// ossp.katastar.gov.mk/ossp/ Price and lease register Introduction of the VIP procedure With the latest amendments of the Law on Real Estate Cadastre dated , the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre further regulated its competences by providing surveying services free of charge with reference to buildings, specific parts of buildings and other facilities for which the construction technical documentation was issued by the time the real estate cadastre for the specific cadastral municipality became effective, and for the purpose of increasing the percentage of registered rights by updating the real estate related data Implementation of RERP and CILAP projects. Establishment of real estate cadastre Further establishment of unified Real Estate cadastre, on areas with old types of cadastre registers What was the level of realization? The attached table presents the level of realization of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 59

60 2. What was the level of realization? Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS 31 Dec % cadastral offices May % cadastral offices In next week s we expect decision of formal starting the project and financing planned activities. Albania IPRO/ASIG 93 % Serbia - RGA The Law was passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia, November 26 th, The project is implemented according to the project plan for the first year. Kosovo - KCA 90 % Macedonia - AREC Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro All project realized In line with project implementation plans, all activities have been on time and very successful. REC is established for 75 cadastral municipalities out of 1680, and for about 50 more is in progress 68 % of territory of Montenegro is covered by Real Estate cadastre, and 22 % more is in procedure of creation of Real Estate cadastre What will be your priority in the future? In line with different levels of development and the guidelines, the institutions listed various priorities, from data quality improvement to producing new registers, support to spatial data infrastructure, geodetic base establishment, mass evaluation, digitisation of remaining data and creating digital archives, address register establishment and continuing the establishment of the real property cadastre. This shows that each institution has its own development plans and priorities with different needs and goals. The attached table presents the answers of all the surveying and mapping authorities in the region of the Western Balkans to that question. 3. What will be your priority in the future? Croatia - SGA Slovenia - GURS Improving data quality (Homogenization of cadastral maps), and JIS upgrade and development Establishing the utility cadastre Establishing the cadastre of buildings Improving data quality 60

61 Albania IPRO/ASIG Serbia - RGA Kosovo - KCA Macedonia - AREC Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - FGA Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina - GARS Montenegro ASIG Interagency coordination for the collection, processing and updating geospatial data as input for NSDI. Creating an integrated geoinformation system in Albania under the INSPIRE Directive and the use of state institutions and the general public Creating a unifying geodetic network for Albanian mapping information using the Albanian national geodetic network. determination of the gelidity model in Albania IPRO_ End of first registration Data updating and data improving for about 75% of cadastral zones Client satisfaction to be more than 70%, in 2018 Successful further implementation of the World Bank funded project Decrease the number of unresolved cases at first and second instance Passing the Law on National Spatial Data Infrastructure by the end of 2016 NSDI Production of new orthophotos (LIDAR scanning) Reconstruction of cadastral information Mass valuation Registration of utilities etc. Establishment of the Address Register Orthophoto and lidar scanning Transformation from GK to ETRS89 Digital archive and scan center for paper 3D Cadastre 2018 Further Institutional development of AREC Continued implementation of project activities and improvement of legal framework. Continuation of establishment of real estate cadastre. Completion of Real Estate cadastre for whole country, creation of address register, work on utility cadastre, development of NSDI 61

62 Section 13: Status of Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) in the region Legal framework and tehnical aspects of implememntation Tomislav Ciceli, State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia, Dritan Prifti, State Authority for Geospatial Information of the Republic of Albania Introduction Importance of spatial data infrastructure for National Mapping and Cadastre agencies was recognised years ago, when among other thing this regional conference changed name; From regional conference on cadastre to regional conference on cadastre and spatial data infrastructure. It happened on 4th regional conference in Bled, Slovenia. Even before that moment, status of SDI in region was analysed in scope of produced studies. This brief analyse was created with idea of getting overview of current activities on National spatial data infrastructures (NSDI) in involved countries. Another goal was getting clear picture of NMCA role in that process. Analyses is divided in two main parts; one dealing with formal framework for NSDI and another one dedicated to technical aspects. Legal framework This part represents analyses of legal ground of NSDI and role of NMCA in it. On the beginning it is good to notice that at this moment in all countries process of NSDI is in progress, except Bosnia and Herzegovina, where problem of non-existing NSDI is directly connected with political organisation of country. 1. Does NSDI exist in your Country/Entities? (Alphabetic order) Institution ASIG - IPRO FGA GARS SGA KCA AREC Answer Yes No No Yes Yes Yes 62

63 1. Does NSDI exist in your Country/Entities? (Alphabetic order) Institution REA RGA GURS Answer Yes, in legislation Yes Yes Existence of NSDI in countries of region. Currently in almost all countries NMCA agencies are appointed to be National contact points for NSDI. That is not the fact in Montenegro (still not defined) and in Albania we have special Agency which main role is coordination of NSDI. 2. What role does your institution have in the NSDI? Institution ASIG IPRO FGA GARS SGA KCA AREC REA Answer National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. NCP and subject NCP and subject NCP and subject National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI NCP and subject Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. Undefined role RGA GURS National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI 63

64 3. Does your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? Answer ASIG - IPRO FGA Yes No GARS No, but it is in procedure. SGA KCA AREC REA Yes Yes Yes Yes RGA GURS Yes No Existence of NSDI unit in institution 64

65 In almost all institutions we can find unit which has core responsibilities in NSDI Coordination. 4. Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your Country/Entities? Institution ASIG - IPRO FGA GARS Answer Yes, there is an independent law Yes, there is an independent law Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act SGA Yes, there is an independent law KCA AREC REA Yes, there is an independent law (In the procedure of promulgation from the parliament of Kosovo) Yes, there is an independent law Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act RGA Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act GURS Yes, there is an independent law Yes, there is an independent law % Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act % No, there isn`t 0 0% Some kind of formal regulation of NSDI exist in each country, but in some of them there is still no independent law. 65

66 5. There is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/ EC (INSPIRE)? Institution ASIG - IPRO FGA GARS SGA KCA Answer Yes, complete transposition No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive Yes, complete transposition Yes, complete transposition AREC Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (65%) REA Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (35 %) RGA Yes, but as an incomplete transposition GURS Yes, complete transposition Transposition of INSPIRE Directive to national legislation Different countries have different approaches in EU legislation transposition. Like in others EU member states sometimes NMCA are directly involved, but sometimes also indirectly through working groups. 6. If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? Institution ASIG Answer Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition. IPRO Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE. FGA GARS Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition 66

67 6. If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? Institution SGA KCA AREC Answer Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE REA RGA GURS Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition One of interesting perspective on looking of real status of NSDI is involvement of other data producers in process of NSDI establishment. It is also one of good overall benchmarks for NSDI development. 7. According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your Country/Entities? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.)? Institution Answer ASIG 0-5 IPRO 0-5 FGA 0-5 GARS 0-5 KCA SGA

68 7. According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your Country/Entities? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.)? Institution Answer AREC 5-10 REA 0-5 RGA 0-5 GURS 0-5 Involvement of other data producers in NSDI. 8. Is there a NSDI Strategy in your Country/Entities? Institution ASIG Answer Yes IPRO FGA GARS SGA KCA AREC REA Currently under construction No, but it is in preparation phase Currently under construction Yes Yes No RGA GURS Yes Currently under construction 68

69 Regarding formal status of NSDI and role of NMCA in it we can conclude that in almost all countries preconditions are in place. In EU countries status of NSDI is in more implementation phase, but all other countries are very close also to step in that phase of NSDI establishment. Importance of existence of specific unit is also recognised in almost all countries, which also shows determination of NMCA agencies to seriously tackle the role of the leading institutions in the process of establishing NSDI. Almost all countries have NSDI strategy or at least are working on it. Technical overview 9. Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your Country/Entities? Institution ASIG Answer No IPRO FGA GARS SGA KCA AREC REA RGA GURS No No, because of Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes 69

70 The table above are the responses of organizations participating in this Regional Conference, which noted that in almost 55.6 % of countries National Metadata Catalogue exist. 10. Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? Institution ASIG Answer Yes IPRO FGA GARS SGA KCA AREC REA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes RGA GURS Yes Yes It is obvious that all institutions are mature enough on technical level to share their data through network services which is one of the main idea coming from NSDI and INSPIRE. 70

71 11. What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? Institution Answer Network services Discovery View Download Transformation ASIG IPRO Not Available AU, ORTHO, CP, TOPO MAP, CENSUS 2011, AD, ROAD NET, EDUCATION, GEO, LAND USE, PROT SITES. Not Available Not Available FGA Not Available ADM Bound, ORTHO, DTM, CP. ADM Bound, ORTHO, CP Not Available GARS Catalog web interface on client side ADM, OI, ST UNITS, TOPO MAPS (VECTOR), CP. ADM, OI, ST UNITS, TOPO MAPS (VECTOR), CP Not Available SGA Yes (National catalogue and SGA catalogue) ORTHO, GN, TOPO MAPS, GeoGRID GN Yes KCA AREC Catalog web interface on client side ADM, OI, ST UN, CP, TOPO MAPS (VECTOR). ADM, OI, ST UN, CP, TOPO MAPS (VECTOR) Not Available REA Catalog service on REA Geoportal ADM, ORTHO, CP, BU, TOPO MAPS ADM, CP, BU, EL. Not Available RGA ADM, EL ADM, EL Not Available Not Available GURS 45 datasets and services. Developed 9 view network services (WMS) GN, SPATIAL UNITS, AD, CP, TR NET, LAND COVER, ORTHO, BU, LAND USE, UTL INFRASTRUCTURE, Not Available It is to be mentioned that from 9 countries who answered the questionnaire: 100% institutions has developed View service. Only three countries have not developed the Discovery Service. (Albania, Kosovo have an ongoing project to develop this service). At this moment only two countries have not developed Download Service. (Albania and Serbia). No country has developed Transformation Service, except Croatia. In the table it is also shown for what kind of data these services are developed for each institution representatives 71

72 12. Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? Institution ASIG Answer Yes (ADM, GN, EL) IPRO FGA GARS SGA KCA NO NO Yes (ADM, GN, Topographic base) Yes (ADM, GN, EL) AREC Yes (AU,DEM,HYD, GN) REA Yes ( AU, EL, GN, DOF) RGA GURS Yes (AU, EL, GN, Land Cover) Yes, (GN, ADM, AD, CP, TR, BU, UTL Infr) Datasets which are harmonized arising the requirements of Directive INSPIRE are summarized in this table, where we can see that only two institutions have not started to harmonize their data according to the requirements of Directive. (BH and GARS). In this table noticed that in many countries, these harmonized dataset, corresponding to the data which has been provided during engagement of our institutions in the IMPULSE project. 72

73 Conclusion General conclusion is that NSDI is recognised in all countries. In each country formal background for development of NSDI is in place. On technical levels NMCA institutions are more and more mature to response on obligations coming from NSDI and INSPIRE, not only on technical level but also on organisational one, trying to become leading institutions in this field. 73

74 Annex: Results of the questionnaire by institutions in alphabetical order: Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia Central Office for Real Estate Registration of the Republic of Albania Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Kosovo Cadastral Agency Real Estate Administration of Montenegro Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia State Geodetic Administration, Republic of Croatia State Authority for Geospatial Information of the Republic of Albania Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, 74

75 Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia AREC 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) The Agency for real estate cadastre is authorized to: Manage the geodetic-cadastre information system; Perform basic geodetic works; Perform real property survey; Perform survey and maintenance of the state borderline Perform geodetic works for special purposes Establish and maintain the real estate cadastre; Perform mass valuation of real properties registered in the real estate cadastre Establish and administer the graphic registry of construction land; Produce topographic maps; Administer a spatial units register; Administer graphic registry of streets and house numbers, Establish, maintain and provide public access to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure in compliance with a separate law; Monitor and supervise the performance of the sole proprietors authorized surveyors and the trade companies for geodetic works. The bodies of the Agency are a Steering Board and Director.The Agency is managed by a Steering Board, comprised of 5 members representing the Ministry of Justice, Ministry for Transport and Communications, Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy. The Agency perform the activities within its scope of work through the: Headquarters, The Center for REC Skopje, Seven sectors for real estate cadastre, 29 departments for real estate cadastre and The cadastre front-desks. The maintenance of the cadastral municipalities is the responsibility of the Center for Real Estate Cadastre - Skopje and 29 local offices for REC. The Agency is a legal entity.for its performance, the Agency reports to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia. The Director and the Deputy Director of the Agency are appointed by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia for a period of five years with a possibility of another re-election. The Director of the Agency is obliged to report to the Government of the R. Macedonia, by submitting an Agency Performance Report on semi-annual basis. 75

76 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) 1.6. Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) Total number of employees in AREC is % of employees have high education degree, 57% of employees are with secondary education, 7 % rest, Age structure 34 % of employees are between age 34 % of employees are between age 32 % rest. Gender 53% male 47%female According to Article 138 of the Law on Real Estate Cadastre, the REC is part of the GCIS - Geodetic cadastre information system which contains data on real property rights, property rights holders and spatial and descriptive data for the real properties. The real estate cadastre is established on the entire territory of the Republic of Macedonia. The maintenance of the REC is performed for the entire territory of the Republic of Macedonia and it is part of a centralized database from the GCIS. Total number of employees in AREC is % of employees have geodetic background, 18 % of them are lawyers and 38% other types of educational background. 2. Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources Real estate cadastre is established on the entire territory of Republic of Macedonia AREC enabled merging of the attribute database and graphic data in a single centralized base for data management. Total of 1844 cadastral municipalities have been imported to MAK EDIT, (licensed software) i.e. 98,67 % of the overall territory of the Republic of Macedonia. As far as the centralized database is concerned, a total of 1762 cadastral municipalities have been entered, i.e. 96,08 % of the territory of the Republic of Macedonia MKD (or EUR) budget funds, The funds required for performance of the Agency are provided from the budget of, revenues generated from fees, donations and other sources in compliance to Law. 76

77 2.4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any 2.5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so 2004 Japanese grant preparatory work for RECPR project Jica cartography project 2005 Holland grant pilot project Kumanovo RECPR Project financed by World bank Capacity building projects financed by SIDA Holland G2g projects Holland NSDI project INSPIRATION Project RECPR Project additional financing - financed by World bank IMPULS project Project proposal - Update of the NSDI Strategy submitted to the Dutch foreign office 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I ) alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness AREC established distribution system that enables online sale and is at the disposal of both professional users and the wider public. The distribution system was launched on Information from the Real Estate Cadastre, such as geodetic and cartographic information, as well as data from the Register of Spatial Units covering the overall territory of the Republic of Macedonia is available at This online distribution system is 24 hours available to all legal and physical persons both in the country and abroad, and the requested information may be obtained either digitally or as hardcopy. The information that is issued electronically is officially available and is accompanied by a digital certificate of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre. This information is public and may be used when dealing with any state bodies, banks and other institutions that have information systems. The information issued as hardcopy is delivered using the express mail services to the address indicated in the submission. Cadastral Data Parcels Buildings Geodetic points Trigonometric City trigonometric Polygonometric Administrative Units Populated Areas Cadastral Municipalities Local Government State Border LG Generalized PA Generalized 77

78 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices Overall pricing policy is regulated by Tariff lists. All information for the fees is available on the webpage of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, where all of AREC s tariff lists are published, as well as all of the adopted Guidelines concerning the application of the Tariff lists aimed uniform application of the same Data access restrictions, if any The data from the REC are public. The agency provides access to data to the interested parties, while the availability of certain data contained in the public book (personal information) is limited by the Law on personal data. In accordance with Article 155 of the Law on Real Estate Cadastre, if the data which is being published contains information for the sole identification number, the same should not be visible, according to the regulations for protection of personal data Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service Through the GCIS system, AREC enables electronic access to data from the REC, the connecting with the professional users allows faster and more efficient delivery of applications for registration of changes in the real estate cadastre and the applications for issuance of data. The amendments to the Law on REC in 2014 introduced a requirement for electronic submission of applications, the local government, the notaries, the enforcement agents and other entities with transferred public authorizations, are obliged to electronically submitted all documents containing legal basis on the basis of which the registration in the REC is performed, along with the applications for registration and the evidence for the paid fee to the AREC. The following services are available at the Agency s web site the property list by address,browse by Property List / cadastral parcel,check the status of the application submitted to the front desks in the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre of the Republic of Macedonia The web portal can also be found on the web page, information can be obtained on the property registered in the cadastre on its geolocation, data from the property list (without data on the encumbrances and limitations). The available graphic data on the web portal of REC are: a layer of topographic maps at a scale 1:25000 in raster format, which provides 3D visualization of the terrain; a conditional registration layer - buildings under construction that have been recorded in the REC, provided by the graphic view of the parcels on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia which have been conditionally registered in the REC, as well as information from the conditional registration list; a layer of cadastral parcels that have remained with unregistered rights in the proceedings of the presentation for public inspection during the systematic registration; a layer with state owned forest land and privately owned forest land; a layer - point of interest (for all REC departments and the Headquarters, and all notaries, municipalities and geodetic companies); and a layer of cadastral maps obtained in the Digitalization project. 78

79 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? The access, the distribution and the issuance of data from the GCIS system are by the Law on Real Estate Cadastre and by the Regulation on the establishment and manner of use of the information system for processing of data in electronic form and electronic signature when submitting applications and requests to the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre.The requests, applications and documents for changes in the real estate cadastre are submitted by the users electronically, signed with a valid digital certificate issued by an authorized issuer via the e-front Desk. The data and the notifications are issued by AREC also in electronic form, signed with a valid digital certificate issued by an authorized issuer via the e-front Desk. Distribution and publication of data electronically can be done by authorized distributors. According to Article 31 of the Law on the distribution of data in electronic form in GCIS may be issued by other state authorities (ministries), public services (notaries, lawyers, enforcers) local self government units, geodetic companies, banks, etc. Data obtained from authorized distributors are valid as public documents, i.e. the data issued from authorized distributors have the same legal validity as the data issued by the Agency. 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data 4.1. Which digital topographic data are available? 4.2. Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? 4.3. To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? 4.4. Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? Topographic Maps (Raster) TM TM TM TM Topographic Maps (Vector) TM Orthophoto No Black/White Orthophoto of Macedonia 0.6 m Colour orthophoto of Macedonia 0.5 m NO 5. NMCA legal framework 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) Law on real estate cadastre Law on Construction, Law on construction land Law on Contractual Pledge Law for agriculture land Law on the treatment of illegal buildings 79

80 5.2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) 5.3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements Law on Construction, Law on construction land Law on Contractual Pledge Law for agriculture land Law on the treatment of illegal buildings This issue is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for transport and comunication Main legislation :Law on the treatment of illegal buildings 5.4. Availability of main legislation Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure 5.6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry. Service and data providers (survey, survey reports, cadastral map copy, certificates from available official land administration registers) This process stated in 2011till AREC registered legalized objects. NO, AREC is a single body cadastre and land registry are merged. 6. Status of key registers 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key registers on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible Who are the key users of registers of your institution? No REC real estate cadastre Graphic registry of construction land, Spatial units registry, Graphic registry of streets and house numbers Government Public agencies Local self government Notaries, Private surveyours, Business Citizens 80

81 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? 6.5. Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability Interconnection and use of registers and data bases between state administration bodies and institutions Interoperability project Implementation of this project enables inter-electronic data exchange between state administration bodies and institutions that are of importance in performing their functions, and contributes to quality, economic and efficient operation. he Pilot-project has been performed in 5 state institutions: Ministry of Interior Affairs Central Register Agency of Real Estate Cadastre Customs Office and Public Revenue Office Yes, interoperability project phase 2 Aditional 18 institutions will be involved. 7. Private sector 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued 7.4. Number of surveying companies Yes, it is regulated by: Law on real estate cadastre Official Gazette of R. Macedonia #55/13, 41/14, 115/14, 116/15, 153/15, 192/15 и 61/16) Regulation on the license for performance of geodetic works, the conditions required for performance of geodetic works and the register of sole proprietors authorized surveyors and trade companies for geodetic works The real property survey as well as the form and the content of the geodetic reports are regulated by the Regulation on real property survey AREC The field geodetic works, basic geodetic works, the survey in service of the establishment and the maintenance of the real estate cadastre. 141 surveying companies 7.5. Number of licensed geodetic surveyors 209 licensed surveyors 8. Purpose of the land administration system 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system Real property rights registered Updated and secured ownership records and accurate cadastre data Comprehansive registration of data related to cadastre parcel, buildings and apartments, utility cadastre, morgages, restrigtions and collateral right 81

82 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? 8.3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? Yes, by providing information about real estate and property to the tax authority, valuators, local self government and citizens. Yes, centralized Registry for construction land is established and managed by AREC. This Register provides complete standardization and unification of all types of urban plans, urban-planning documentation and urban-project documentation. 9. Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration Reform program exist in your country? 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? Yes, it is part of the Strategic program of the Government of the R. of Macedonia 2014/2018 Government of RM, AREC, responsible ministries and donators Improvement of the business environment and competitiveness Promotion of e-front desk for professional users as a measures to accelerate the registration of properties (2014) Digitalization of cadastral maps ( ) Establisment of the register of construction land, Adress register, establishment of utility cadstre as a part of REC,Register of prices and leases Systematic registration of the real property rights and reambulation. Centralized cadastre database. Digitalisation and harmonization of digital cadstre data with real estate rights ( ares of the cadastre parcels to be in favoure to the real estae cadstre rights) 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) (data from 2002) Area (km 2 ) ,8km² Gross national product per capita (euro) 4,935 $GDP (nominal) ( for year) Number of parcels parcels % of parcels in rural areas 79.6 % % of parcels in urban areas 17.5 % 82

83 10.7. Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights Annual number of mortgages LA in supporting to the strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? Investments in highways, roads, railways Investments in energetic sector (gasline, electricity) 13 Technological Industrial Development Zone free zones in terms of the customs and tax laws AREC is performing as a data provider, dealing with the the real property survey,preparing geodetic reports and if there are some changes on the terrain AREC is making evidence, registration of the real estate rights, issuing property certificates etc. In the planning phase, mainly by providing data for the basic geodetic points, coordinats, extracts from the cadastre maps During implementation phase, real property survey and registration of the real estate rights What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Updated cadastre maps and registered property rights Highways: SKOPJE STIP, KICEVO OHRID TIRZ BUNARCIK No, not officially published. 83

84 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? Digitalization of cadastral plans and management of the centralized database from the Real Estate Cadastre Establishment of the Register for construction land Development of Distribution System of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastrehttp://ossp.katastar.gov.mk/OSSP/ Price and lease register Introduction of the VIP procedure With the latest amendments of the Law on Real Estate Cadastre dated , the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre further regulated its competences by providing surveying services free of charge with reference to buildings, specific parts of buildings and other facilities for which the construction technical documentation was issued by the time the real estate cadastre for the specific cadastral municipality became effective, and for the purpose of increasing the percentage of registered rights by updating the real estate related data All project realized Establishment of the Address Register Ortophoto and lider scanning Transformation from GK to ETRS89 Digital archive and scan center for paper 3D Cadastre 2018 Further Institutional development of AREC Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 3 Does your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No, but it is in procedure. 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent law b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act 84

85 c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (65%) c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No, but it is in preparation phase c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No, because of Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 entities + Brčko Distict) 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? a) Discovery network service b) Catalog service (with catalog web interface on client side) c) View network service i. WMS (administrative units, orthoimages, statistical units, content of digital topographic maps, cadastral parcels) d) Download network service i. Only for registered users (administrative units, statistical units, vectorised content of digital topographic maps, cadastral parcels) e) Transformation network service f) Not available. 12 Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes, for the following data.au,dem,hydrography b) No. 85

86 State Authority for Geospatial Information of the Republic of Albania ASIG and Central Office for Real Estate Registration of the Republic of Albania IPRO 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution. ASIG By Law 72/2012 For the organization and operation of the national infrastructure of geospatial information in the republic of albania ASIG has the following responsibilities: implementing national policy for national geospatial information infrastructure; is responsible for the design, construction, maintenance and updating of Geodetic Reference Framework; To take decisions for the collection, processing and updating geospatial information from public authorities, according to relevant topics; establishes uniform standards and rules for creating GIS, for each subject, and for the establishment of National GIS in accordance with the relevant European standards and drafts rules relating to the creation, updating, sharing, access and use of geospatial information and related services; ensure the interoperability of geospatial information and services groups, and designs detailed rules for the implementation of interoperability; managing geospatial information collected, processed and updated by public authorities, according to relevant topics; ensure coordination of work during activities and taking initiatives related to geospatial information in the public and Private sectors; creates and administers the National Geoportal and provides access to the public and interested parties in accordance with the provisions of this law; Supervise the implementation of the regulatory framework established by this law, regulations issued pursuant to this Law and in accordance with the policy objectives set by the Council of Ministers shall submit the relevant authorities proposals for legislative intervention related; Provide for education and increasing the capacity of the actors involved in processes related to national geospatial information infrastructure, as well as for the dissemination of information related to interest groups and the public; represents the country in international and European organizations, membership in which it serves functioning and modernization of national geospatial information infrastructure; represents the state to any other matter relating to geospatial information infrastructure 86

87 IPRO Immovable Property Registration Office (IPRO) was established by Law No. 7843, 13/07/1994, On registration of immovable property. In March 2012, a new Law is in place, Law No. 33/2012, On registration of immovable property. The scope of activity of IPRO is registration of ownership titles and other real rights over immovable properties, based on the legal documents, which prove ownership of immovable property, the preparation, the keeping and the administration of immovable property registers, cadastral maps, and documentations, which prove the right to ownership and other real rights over immovable properties Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) 1.6. Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) ASIG is a State Authority finance by state Budget, under the State Minister for Public Administration and Innovation. Existing structure consists of 49 employees mainly graduated in Geodezy and IT. IPRO is a legal person, public, non-budgetary, under the Minister of Justice, and it consists of the Central Immovable Property Registration Office and 35 local offices. The Prime Minister approves the organisational structure and the staff structure of this Office. The level of salaries is determined by decision of the Council of Ministers. The provisions of the Labour Code and other sublegal acts in implementing the Code govern the staff employment relations. The IPRO governing bodies are the Governing Board and the Chief Registrar. Central Office is organised in 5 Directories: 1. Directory of Cartography and First Registration 2. Juridical Directory 3. Directory of ICT 4. Directory of Human Resources and Support Services 5. Directory of Projects Management Ministry of Justice 640 employees; 93% with University 54% female; 46% male Kosovo Cadastral Agency and Municipal Cadastral Offices in 38 Municipalities Number of the staff working in 38 Municipal Cadastral Offices: 380 employees as permanent civil servant staff Main qualifications: Geodesy, Law, other. 2. Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 87

88 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources 2.4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any 2.5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so 75 % 100 % ASIG State Budget 1,200,906 Euro Donation Euro from Norwegian Government. (Total 1.2 million Euro ) IPRO Self-financed Funds: EUR ASIG Creation of Geospatial Information Infrastructure in Albania. Kartvetkt, Norwegian Minisitry of Foreign Affairs IPRO Land Administration and Management Project (LAMP), World Bank ALBPOS, Lantmäteriet (SIDA), Line Map Production in Albania project for measurementand defind the geoidit in all country. Creation of Land Management System in Albania 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I )alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data ASIG /IPRO 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness To some public institutions and Notaries, based on the Law, but not using Geoportal. ASIG ASIG administer National Geoportal in Albania. At the moment in the Geoportal are published through View Service WMS (OGC compliant) geospatial information of 2042 cadastral Zones. The information is under the current situation taken by the responsible institutions IPRO. The information it s not update, but it s situation of the initial registration process and in some cases does not contain changes made during the public display. 100 % 88

89 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices ASIG - The Cadastral data published in the Geoportal can be accessed by public with no restrictions. Also by law 72/2012 the View Services published in the National Geoportal should be free in accessing IPRO a) Pricing policy is regulated (Administrative Instruction for fees on cadastral products and services) 3.4. Data access restrictions, if any ASIG - No restrictions about viewing Cadastral through view Services. IPRO - There are restrictions about legal information on registration of real property rights 3.5. Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? No ASIG By law 72/2012 download Service for Geospatial datasets are to compliant to OGC and INSPIRE standards. Uniform data set provided to all. 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data ASIG/IPRO 4.1. Which digital topographic data are available? 4.2. Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? 4.3. To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? 4.4. Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? Topographic map in scale 1: (coast Area) Topographic map in scale 1: Topographic map in scale 1: Topographic map in scale 1: Topographic map in scale 1: orthophoto all country in 2007 orthophoto urban area 2015 Digital Aerial Photography for Republic of Albania territory Production of oriented Aerial Images; LIDAR data; DTM; Orthophoto 2015 ongoing a) Every 7-8 years b) Coverage is 100% of territory c) Resolution of DOF is 8 cm for urban areas and 20 cm for the rest of country area a) Yes The project is in the process, managed by ASIG. 89

90 5. NMCA legal framework ASIG/IPRO 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) 5.2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) 5.3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements Law No. 72/2012»On the organization and functioning of the national infrastructure of geospatial information in the Republic of Albania«. Law No. 72/2012»On the organization and functioning of the national infrastructure of geospatial information in the Republic of Albania«. Exist - Law NO. 9482, dated , On legalization, urbanization and integration of Informal Constructions Amended by Law No. 9786, dated Law nr.9895, dated Decision No. 3, dated , of the Constitutional Court Law No , dated 19/03/2009 Law no , dated Law No , dated Law No. 141/2013 dated Availability of main legislation Main legislation is prepared in Albanian language All main legislation is available through internet botimezyrtare.gov.al/ 5.5. Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure 5.6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry. There is a relevancy of cadastre and surveyors in legalisation procedure. Currently, it is ongoing the process of legalisation ASIG No IPRO, according to the current legislation, is the only authority responsible for cadastre and registration of real property rights (land registry) 6. Status of key registers ASIG/IPRO 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key resisters on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible. Yes, Data Specification for the Spatial Data ASIG - can report for status in Albania of all 34 data Themes mentioned in the INSPIRE directive and by law 72/2012. IPRO Real property rights register (land registry) Parcel, building and parts of building (apartments) register Registration of mortgage register 90

91 Who are the key users of registers of your institution? 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability Citizens, Government Institutions, Private sector, Students International institutions and NGO s ASIG - There is an ongoing process with the other institutions There is an ongoing discussion between IPRO and Civil Registration Agency for linking registers Yes under development 7. Private sector ASIG/IPRO 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued Yes, Law no , dated ,»On licenses, authorizations and permits in the Republic of Albania«Ministry of Urban Development Land administration, construction, transport, geodetic survey,etc 7.4. Number of surveying companies Number of licensed geodetic surveyors 31 surveying companies Purpose of the land administration system ASIG/IPRO 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? 1. tenure of property rights 2. tax for properties 3. transactions on properties Yes. The information on attributes of property, geoinformation, surface, etc. is used for taxation. No 9. Land administration Reform program ASIG/IPRO 9.1. Is Land administration Reform program exist in your country? Yes 91

92 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? Driving forces for improvement of LA could be: governance, legislation, development plans, business processes, human resource management, customer/user orientation and cooperation with all involved stakeholders LAMP: Land Administration and Management Project Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of land administration and urban management through: enhancing tenure security improving urban planning, land management and development control supporting property valuation and taxation, and financing investments in urban infrastructure and services Systematic massive first registration for property titles, based on the parcel. 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) 2.9 million Area (km 2 ) 28,748 km Gross national product per capita (euro) 4,605 EUR (Nominal, 2015) 10,243 EUR (PPP, 2015 est.) Number of parcels % of parcels in rural areas 93% % of parcels in urban areas 7% Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights Annual number of mortgages LA in supporting to the strategic investments ASIG/IPRO Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) 92

93 11.2. Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data ASIG - Provide all geo-information from geoportal of ASIG. IPRO - Cadastral data about the property rights for the site where strategic investment is occurring. ASIG - Through the Geoportal, ASIG gives opportunity to citizens and public institutions to access Geospatial information IPRO Planning phase and in some stage of implementation. ASIG - Creating an integrated geo-information system in Albania under the INSPIRE Directive and the use of institutions and the general public.. Institutional coordination for the collection, processing and updating geospatial data as imput for NSDI. IPRO - Update of Cadastral information ASIG - Through the Geoportal, supporting the strategic investments IPRO - Support with cadastral data on expropriation procedure for building highway Durres Morinë No 12. The most important improvements in the last year ASIG/IPRO What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? First registration process 93 % ASIG Interagency coordination for the collection, processing and updating geospatial data as imput for NSDI. Creating an integrated geoinformation system in Albania under the INSPIRE Directive and the use of state institutions and the general public Creating a unifying geodetic network for Albanian mapping information using the Albanian national geodetic network. determination of the geoidit model in Albania IPRO End of first registration Data updating and data improving for about 75% of cadastral zones Client satisfaction to be more than 70%, in

94 Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI (ASIG) b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. (IPRO) c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 3 Does Your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (e.g. 60%) c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition (ASIG) b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE (IPRO) c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No 94

95 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? a) Discovery network service i. - ii. - iii. - b) View network service i. - Administrative Unit ii. iii. iv. - Orthophoto - Cadaster - Topographic Maps v. - Census 2011 vi. vii. viii. ix. - Adressary Road Network Education Geology x. LandUse xi. xii. xiii. xiv. Protected Sites Land Values Urban zones c) Download network service i. - ii. - iii. - d) Transformation network service i. - ii. - iii Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes, for the following data: Administrative Units, Elevation, Geographic Names b) No. 95

96 Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina FGA 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs is a self-governing Administration competent for all geodetic works, including cadastre. The Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs performs administrative and other technical tasks that are under the authority of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, relating to: survey, real estate cadastre establishment and updating, utility cadastre, with the exception of the tasks for which the authority was devolved by the law to the cantons and municipalities, mapping of the territory of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, geodetic and cartographic tasks of relevance to defences, keeping technical archives of the originals of plans and maps of basic geodetic works and other data resulting from geodetic works, land consolidation, special purpose land survey, real property records, making property reprivatisation proposals, inspection supervision of works related to survey, real estate cadastre, land cadastre. Municipal Cadastral Offices are responsible for the maintenance of surveying and Real Estate Cadastre, which includes: monitoring, identification and recording of technical changes on the land, buildings and other facilities that have an impact on the data surveying and Real Estate Cadastre, the implementation of identified rights on geodetic plans, maps and alphanumeric cadastral records, and changes of registered rights to the property in the corresponding property sheets. This means restoring geodetic marker points, reconstruction of obsolete parts or all of the cadastral documentation and reproduction of worn out and damaged original information of geodetic plans. In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina there are 79 municipal cadastral offices that are part of the municipal administration, and which operate under the supervision of the Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs. Also there are four functioning cantonal geodetic administrations, existing in ten cantons. Director s cabinet Sector for Land Surveying, Cartography and Land Consolidation Sector for Cadastre Sector for Geoinformatics Sector for Real Property, Financial and General Affairs Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs is a self-governing Administration competent for all geodetic works, including cadastre. 96

97 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) 1.6. Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) According to the current job systematization a total number of 32 employees it is envisaged: 6 managerial civil servants (1 Director, 1 Secretary and 4 Director s Assistants), 19 other state employees and 7 appointees. Of the total planned 32 jobs, 26 of them are staffed. According to employment structure, the majority of employees are with University degree 79% of them. In 79 municipalities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively in cadaster offices, a total number of employees are 524, and most represented with number 353 are employees with secondary school education, 111 with university degree, 54 employees with professional qualifications, and 6 skilled employees with educational qualifications. The Federation of B&H has a dual system of land administration which was established in the late nineteenth century and where the cadastre and land register are basic components of land administration sector. Therefore, the system of property registration and ownership rights and other real rights on real estate in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is based on two records and two registries - cadastre and land register. Federal Ministry of Justice, according to the Law on Federal Ministries and other bodies of the Federal Administration is responsible to carry out administrative, professional and other tasks stipulated by law which, among other things, relates to the competencies of the Federation in the areas of judicial institutions and administration, and administrative supervision of the judicial administration. Land register management is the responsibility of municipal courts that provide services of real estate registration and the right to the same. Territorially competent municipal court is the court in whose territory the property is located. Activities or services that Land registry offices provide to interested parties are prescribed by the Law on Land Registry. In land registry offices in FB&H, there are 166 employees, out of which 139 or 84% are land registry clerks who had passed the exam, and 27 or 16% are the administrative staff. Current structure of land registry officers in FB&H with regards to their education level is: the percentage share of land registry officers with tertiary education at the end of the quarter is 55%. Share of land registry officers with higher education (two-year post-secondary) is 8%, while the percentage share of land registry officers with secondary education is 37%. 2. Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % Approx. 25% with annual increase throw establishment of REC and throw harmonisation activities of RERP projects and other initiatives. Approx. 70 % 97

98 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources 2.4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any 2.5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so Approx. 1,3 million Euro budget funds CILAP Swedish support IMPULS Swedish support to WB region INSPIRATION Project EU IPA funds Ortofotomaps EU IPA funds BIHPOS EU IPA funds RERP WB funds Public services for real estate market and EU integration Norwegian support Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs has recently signed agreement for continuation of Swedish support until end of In addition, negotiations are ongoing for new contribution from Norwegian Government and extension of RERP (WB funded) project. 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I )alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices Established: Portal for access to Land Registry data is currently under consideration and construction Territory of Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina a) Free of charge - for institution of administration FB&H, cantonal administration and municipality b) Pricing policy is regulated Law on fees for the use of data and the provision of services in the field of real-estate cadastre The Regulation on how to store and use data of land survey and the Land Cadastre Tariff of fees for the use of data 3.4. Data access restrictions, if any Law on Free Access to Information of the Federation of B&H 3.5. Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? Order to get the geodetic documentations; it is necessary to submit a written request to the administrative authority for the survey, cadastre and registration of real property rights. The request alleges that the information is requested and for what purposes. After processing of the request, may be granted the use of geodetic documentation or not. Data formats are uniform and prescribed by relevant rulebooks. 98

99 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data 4.1. Which digital topographic data are available? 4.2. Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? 4.3. To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? 1. An overview digital geographic and territorial map of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1: An overview geographical and territorial map of Bosnia and Herzegovina and territorial structure and geographical map of the Croatian 1: An overview topographic map of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1: (database) 4. Topographic map of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1: (database) 5. Digital ortofoto maps 1: 2500 and 1: 5000 ( ) 6. Digital ortofoto maps 1: 5000 ( ) 7. Topographic Map 1: Topographic Map 1: JICA 9. Topographic Map 1: The main state map 1:5000 and 1:10000 For detail data about topographic products see metadata - a) Yes (basic topographic database 1: 10000) - for period: 1. Year 2. 3 year year Colour orthophoto (RGB) i Infrared ortophoto (2013), territory of FB&H Resolution of DOF: 25 and 50 cm Cyclic recording 3-4 year No, only partial projects related to flooding and potential hazard managment. 5. NMCA legal framework 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) 5.2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) Law on Survey and Real Estate Cadastre ( Official Gazette of SR B&H, no. 22/84, 12/87, 26/90 and 36/90 and Official Gazette of RBiH no.4/93 and 13/94) Law on Survey and Land Cadastre ( Official Gazette of SR BiH,1978) Law on Expropriation ( Official Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, no.70/07) Law on Land Books ( Official Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, no.19/03 and 54/04) Law on usurpation (»Official Gazette of SR BiH«, no. 6/78.) Law on Cadastre utilities - (BiH Official Gazette no. 21/77, 8/88, 36/90) Law on Federal Ministries and other bodies of Federal Administration (»Official Gazette of BiH», number 19/03, 38/05, 02/06 and 08/06) 99

100 5.3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements Exist Not under jurisdiction of FGA 5.4. Availability of main legislation Available in all official languages in Federation of B&H. Available for public download from official web sites of respected institutions Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure 5.6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry. This area is not under jurisdiction of FGA. Not known (please explain the reasons) This area is not under jurisdiction of FGA. A new draft Law on Geodetic Survey and Real Estate Register (FBH, 2013) in the procedure has a basic objective of establishing a unified registration system with an integrated real estate database. The draft law proposes creating a canton (district)-based administration with the FGA FBH providing a supervisory and policy role, and replacing the existing municipal court based land registers (real estate rights) and municipal geodetic offices (cadastre). 6. Status of key registers 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key registers on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible Who are the key users of registers of your institution? 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability No Real Estate Cadastre database, Administrative units database Government Ministries, Agencies and other Administration institutions Private sector Educational institutions The public - citizens Not at this point in time. Yes Real Estate Registration Project 7. Private sector 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? Yes. Law on Survey and Real Estate Cadastre ( Official Gazette of SR BiH, no. 22/84, 12/87, 26/90 and 36/90 and Official Gazette of RB&H no.4/93 and 13/94) Law on Survey and Land Cadastre ( Official Gazette of SR B&H,1978) 100

101 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued 7.4. Number of surveying companies 7.5. Number of licensed geodetic surveyors Federal Administration for geodetic and Real Property Affairs For land administration purposes: Certificate in the work of independent surveying for entrepreneurs. Certificate in the work of digitalisation and creation of RECDB for entrepreneurs. Approx. 40 companies Not available, not foreseen by current legal framework. 8. Purpose of the land administration system 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? 8.3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? Juridical, Regulatory, Fiscal, Information management Indirectly by providing information about real estate and property. Yes, RECDB is used very often in the process of urban planning. 9. Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration Reform program exist in your country? 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system Yes The current period is marked by extremely satisfactory and synergetic cooperation on the Real Estate Registration Project (RERP) as a follow-up to the Land Registration Project, both managed by the World Bank; CILAP (Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in BH), managed by the Lantmateriet on behalf of Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency); and the Public services for the real estate market and European integration project, managed by the Norwegian Statens Kartverk financed by donations from Norway. Primarily partners, FGA, FMoJ, the Private sector, and public, academic and other institutions are working successfully in a demanding environment, and within reasonable resources in support to the sustainable development and reform of the land administration sector in FB&H. 101

102 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? FGA is intensively involved in implementation of the World Bank RERP with land register and cadastre data harmonization on land, buildings and rights based on the actual situation in the field. The project s development objective is to support the development of a sustainable real estate registration system with harmonized land register and cadastre records in urban areas of FBH. The objective is to establish up-to-date and interlinked land register and cadastre databases. The project supports the registration of legal rights in the land register (in the FBH) using data produced by the RERP. Therefore, the project activities focus on: real estate registration data development, real estate registration infrastructure development, and policy and institutional development. Information technology investments are planned to lead to further interlinking between real estate registers and other public datasets making the data accessible online to a wide audience and in support of multiple uses. This will lead to the incremental provision of electronic online services and eventually to electronic conveyancing. The equal treatment of all citizens regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or social status by accompanying technical field work with public awareness-raising, vulnerability mapping, and social monitoring functions is supported. New legal framework Establishment of up-to-date and interlinked databases Capacity building The project activities focus on: real estate registration data development, real estate registration infrastructure development, and policy and institutional development. The objective is to establish up-to-date and interlinked land register and cadastre databases. 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) 2,372 (data from 2013 year) Area (km 2 ) km² Gross national product per capita (euro) (for year) Number of parcels % of parcels in rural areas Not available % of parcels in urban areas Not available Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights for year 2015: Annual number of mortgages for year 2015:

103 11. LA in supporting to the strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Highway construction Infrastructure management Natural disaster risk management Data providers. Planning phase Implementation phase Maintenance and management Current legal framework, outdated and complicated procedures are obstacles in fast problem solving. The lack of up-to-date and interlinked land register and cadastre databases is evident. Establishment of online services for data sharing has dramatically increased the productivity of FGA clients which use spatial data delivered by the Administration. Clients are provided with up to date harmonised data, which can be used in all phases of strategic Project preparation and implementation. Not available 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? Implementation of RERP and CILAP projects. In line with project implementation plans, all activities have been on time and very successful. Continued implementation of project activities and improvement of legal framework. 103

104 Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 3 Does your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent law b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (e.g. 60%) c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No 104

105 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? a) Discovery network service a) Not available. b) View network service i. WMS (A. Boundaries, Digital Orto photo images, DTM, Cadastral data) c) Download network service i. WFS (A. Boundaries, Cadastral data) ii. iii. WCS (DTM) XX d) Transformation network service b) Not available. 12 Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes, for the following data. b) No. 105

106 Kosovo Cadastral Agency KCA 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) 1.6. Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) Kosovo Cadastral Agency is the central authority for the maintenance of cadastral database, property registers, surveying, mapping, and address register. It is also responsible to coordinate the activities of NSDI in the country Kosovo Cadastral Agency is organised in 5 Directorates: 1. Directorate on the Immovable Property Rights with 3 units 2. Directorate on Geo-information with 4 units 3. Directorate on Cadastral Information Technology System Management with 2 units 4. Legal Directorate with two units 5. Directorate on Finance and General services with 3 units Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning Number of the staff in KCA: 57 employees as permanent civil servant staff ; 23 temporary consultants financed from donors to support project implementation. Main qualifications: Geodesy, Law, Geography, IT, Economy, other. Kosovo Cadastral Agency and Municipal Cadastral Offices in 38 Municipalities Number of the staff working in 38 Municipal Cadastral Offices: 380 employees as permanent civil servant staff Main qualifications: Geodesy, Law, other. 2. Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % 75 % 100 % 106

107 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources Government Funds: EUR World Bank Funds : EUR 2.4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any 2.5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project (RECAP), World Bank Human Resource Development Project on Geo Spatial Information of Kosovo, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Support to Kosovo Cadastral Agency, Government of Norway, Support to the implementation of the unified address system in Kosovo, European Union, Application for new continuation RECAP 2 World Bank Project Application for new project from Government of Norway 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I )alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices a) Established (web address: Note: For the moment the access on legal textual information is not in place, because of harmonisation of legislation for access to personal information. 100 % a) Pricing policy is regulated (Administrative Instruction for fees on cadastral products and services) 3.4. Data access restrictions, if any There are restrictions about legal information on registration of real property rights 3.5. Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? No Uniform data set provided to all. Data exchange format drafted pursuant to EU Directive 2007/2. 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data Which digital topographic data are available? Digital topographic map in scale 1:25000, produced in 2015 with the support of JICA, covering 90% of the country. 107

108 4.2. Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? 4.3. To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? Yes, - The remaining 10% of territory will be finalised by 2017 with Government funds. a) b) Every 3-4 years c) Coverage is 100% of territory of the country d) Resolution of DOF is 8 cm for urban areas and 20 cm for the rest of country area a) Yes The country is analysing the possibility of using laser scanning for the purpose of reconstruction of cadastral information 5. NMCA legal framework 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) 5.2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) 5.3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements Law on Cadastre No.04/L-013 Law on Immovable Property Rights Register 2002/5 Law on Mortgages No. 2002/4 Law on Address System No. 04/L-071 Draft Law on NSDI Law on Cadastre No.04/L-013 Regulation No. 20/2014 on Internal Organization and Job systematization in Kosovo Cadastral Agency Exist - Law no. 04/L-188 for the Treatment of Informal Construction 5.4. Availability of main legislation Main legislation is prepared in three languages: Albanian, Serbian and English All main legislation is available through internet ( kca-ks.org/en/legjislacioni) 5.5. Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure 5.6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry. There is a relevancy of cadastre and surveyors in legalisation procedure. As a baseline geo-information are used orthophoto s from the Kosovo Cadastral Agency Currently is ongoing the process of application for legalisation Kosovo Cadastral Agency according to the current legislation is the only authority responsible for cadastre and for registration of real property rights (land registry) This year is in the programme the preparation of the new integrated law on Cadastre, registration of real property rights (land registry) with the focus on new re-organisation of KCA with Municipal Cadastral Offices and the possibility for KCA to be self-finance organization 108

109 6. Status of key registers 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key resisters on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible Who are the key users of registers of your institution? 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? 6.5. Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability No Real property rights register (land registry) Parcel, building and parts of building (apartments) register Registration of mortgage register Address system register Citizens, Government Institutions, Private sector, Students International institutions and NGO s There is ongoing a discussion between KCA and Civil Registration Agency for linking registers Yes under development 7. Private sector 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued Yes, Private licensed geodetic surveyors are operating since 2008, based on the Administrative Instruction 01/2013 for licensing of private surveyors and companies. Kosovo Cadastral Agency The licensing commission consist of two members from KCA and one member from Kosovo Association of Surveyors Land administration purposes 7.4. Number of surveying companies Number of licensed geodetic surveyors 33 surveying companies 114 private licensed geodetic surveyors 8. Purpose of the land administration system 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? Surveying and mapping Registration of real property rights Land valuation Yes. Cooperation on providing Geospatial information 109

110 8.3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? Yes 9. Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration Reform program exist in your country? 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? Yes Driving forces for improvement of LA could be: completion, governance, legislation, business processes definition, resources management, customer/user orientation and cooperation with all involved stakeholders KOPOS, Cadastre, registration of real property rights, topographic digital maps, address register, NSDI Kosovo Cadastre Land Information System (KCLIS) NSDI Address Register System Reconstruction of Cadastral Information (massive registration procedure) 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) 1.8 million Area (km 2 ) km Gross national product per capita (euro) 5.8 billion Number of parcels % of parcels in rural areas 96% % of parcels in urban areas 4 % Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights Annual number of mortgages LA in supporting to the strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? 1. Highway Prishtina Skopje 2. Power Station New Kosova 3. Agriculture Land Consolidation Process (Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Rural Development) 110

111 11.2. Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? List the god examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Provide geo-information and cadastral data about the property rights for the site where strategic investment is occurring. Support for the procedures of cadastre property formation and also support during process of expropriation Planning phase and in some stage of implementation. Update of Cadastral information Support with cadastral data on expropriation procedure for building highway Vërmicë (Prizren) Podujevë No 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? Digital topographic map 1:25000 Address register Reconstruction of cadastral information in 50 Cadastral Zones 90 % NSDI Production of new orthophotos (LIDAR scanning) Reconstruction of cadastral information Mass valuation Registration of utilities etc. 111

112 Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 3 Does Your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent law (In the procedure of promulgation from the parliament of Kosovo) b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (e.g. 60%) c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No 112

113 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? Koje mrežne usluga Vaša institucija ima razvijene i nad kojim podatcima? a) Discovery network service i. XX ii. XX iii. XX b) View network service i. XX ii. XX iii. XX c) Download network service i. XX ii. XX iii. XX d) Transformation network service i. XX ii. XX iii. XX 12 Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes, for the following data: Administrative Units, Elevation, Geographic Names b) No. 113

114 Real Estate Administration of Montenegro REA 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) 1.6. Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) Real Estate Administration (REA) is responsible for: state survey, real estate cadastre and registering rights on real estate, state borders survey, topographic and cartographic data drafting, maintaining and developing GIS in cooperation with state administration s organ responsible for information society, main state map and topographic maps, utility cadastre, and other activities important for state survey, cadastre and cartography, National Spatial Data Infrastructure,. Organizational structure of REA: Sector for state survey and cartography Sector for real estate cadastre Sector for Information system Sector for human resources Local Cadastre offices 21 Real Estate administration is a state body within the Ministry of Finance Number of staff: 317 university degree: 113 college education: 24 secondary education: 163 elementary education: 17 REA is responsible institution for the registration of property rights Number of staff: 317 Geodesy Faculty or College: 39 Law Faculty: 76 Other education background:

115 2. Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources 100% of properties are covered by up to date, harmonized cadastre register, but in different types of cadastre Real estate cadastre: 68 % Data prepared for Real estate cadastre establishment: 22 % Old (census) cadastre: 10 % From State Budget: REA budget for Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any 2.5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so World bank loan Land administration management project LAMP (December December 2009) Cooperation with Norwegian Government Digital Archive Project ( ) INSPIRATION project ( ) Impuls project (June 2014 December 2018) No such activities in REA at the moment 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I )alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices Land registry data is available on site: Digital Cadastral map (where exists) is available on REA Geoportal: Cadastre alphanumerical data: 100 % Cadastral map: 68 % Online access to cadaster data is free for everyone (except personal data) Access to data through web services is free to government and public institutions, and for other parties there is pricelist in official regulation 3.4. Data access restrictions, if any Cadaster register is considered public, so in general access to data should be available to everyone. Viewing data online on web application and map viewer is free to everyone without registration, while access to data over web services requires user account 115

116 3.5. Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? Data can be viewed online through web application and map viewer. Spatial data can be online retrieved via standard web services published on REA Geoportal: WMS, WFS and direct download. Alphanumerical cadaster data is also available via standard web services In most cases uniform data sets are provided 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data Which digital topographic data are available? Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? Whole country, topographic map scale 1:25.000, raster and vector, year 2009 Generalization project for smaller-scale topographic maps production is ongoing in REA Whole country, 0.2 m, year 2010 Lidar data - whole country, min. 1 pt/m2, year 2010 Results are used for different purposes: DOF and different maps production, infrastructure projects, spatial planning, 5. NMCA legal framework 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) 5.2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) 5.3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements Law on State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre Law of State Property Law on Property Relations Law on General Administrative Procedure Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Structures Law on Notaries Law on e-government Law on Expropriation Law on the State Administration In preparation 5.4. Availability of main legislation In Montenegrin and English, and online on: co.me/me/biblioteka.asp 116

117 5.5. Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure 5.6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry. Legalisation procedure has not started yet, but cadastre and surveyors will for sure be part of procedure and will play one of main roles Estimated number of illegal objects is between and Not planned for now 6. Status of key registers 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key resisters on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible Who are the key users of registers of your institution? 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability Currently there is no specific regulation that covers key registers on national level. There are different thematic laws that stipulates creation and maintenance of separate registers by separate institutions: Central register of citizens Register of administrative units Real Estate Cadastre Address register Register of legal entities Real Estate Cadastre Address Register Register of administrative units Utility Cadastre Government and public institutions Municipalities Notaries Geodetic organizations Law firms Banks Citizens Currently there is no systematic exchange of registers data Yes, project started by Ministry for information society and telecommunications creation of universal system for interoperability and data exchange of registers between government and public institutions 117

118 7. Private sector 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued 7.4. Number of surveying companies 7.5. Number of licensed geodetic surveyors Yes, and it is regulated by: Law on State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre Rulebook on the manner of development and control of technical documentation for the execution of geodetic works, acquiring authorization for planning and execution of geodetic works, ledger of works and inspection book, operating license and identity card for carrying out geodetic works Real Estate administration Engineers Chamber of Montenegro For Geodetic Works in Engineering and Technical Fields, as described by Law: Geodetic works in engineering and technical fields shall include the development of the technical documentation, execution of and professional supervision over the execution of Law on State Surveying and Real Estate Cadastre; Geodetic works in engineering and technical fields for which the development of technical documentation is envisaged. Execution of geodetic works in engineering and technical field shall be: 1) development of geodetic status data for projects in engineering and technical fields; 2) geodetic measurements during the realisation of projects; 3) geodetic measurements of executed works; 4) geodetic measurements aimed at surveying of terrain and structures during the construction and use Purpose of the land administration system 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? 8.3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? Spatial planning Environment protection Sustainable development Cadastre records is being delivered to the Local Tax Administration offices, at the beginning of each calendar year Yes 9. Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration Reform program exist in your country? No 118

119 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) millions Area (km 2 ) km Gross national product per capita (euro) euro (for year 2014.) Number of parcels % of parcels in rural areas Approx. 80 % % of parcels in urban areas Approx. 20 % Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights Approx Approx Annual number of mortgages Approx LA in supporting to the strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments. Highway, Tourism development REA is providing base data and expertize for many types of strategic investments. Types of data and services provided by REA: Cadastral plans, property rights, DEM, DOF, topographic maps, valuation of real estates, geodetic works, 119

120 11.3. In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Planning phase and/or in some stage of implementation. Not whole country is covered by digital cadastral plans and Real Estate cadastre, sometimes precision of spatial data is not on required level, data about land use can be out-of-date, there is no systematic mass valuation of properties, Expertize in property valuation for investments in infrastructure and tourism, for example preparation of data and procedures necessary for highway building. No 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? Further establishment of unified Real Estate cadastre, on areas with old types of cadastre registers 68 % of territory of Montenegro is covered by Real Estate cadastre, and 22 % more is in procedure of creation of Real Estate cadastre Completion of Real Estate cadastre for whole country, creation of address register, work on utility cadastre, development of NSDI Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes, in legislation b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 3 Does your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No 120

121 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent law b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (35 %) c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? a) Discovery network service i. Catalog service on REA Geoportal b) View network service i. Administrative Units ii. Othophoto iii. Cadastre parcels iv. Buildings v. Topographic map c) Download network service i. Administrative Units ii. Cadastre parcels 121

122 iii. iv. Buildings Elevation d) Transformation network service i. N/A 12 Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes, for the following data: AU, EL, GN, DOF b) No. 122

123 Republic Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina GARS 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) Republic Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs (GARS) main responsibilities are: geodetic survey, establishment, renewal and keeping up to date of real estate cadastre, communal utilities cadastre, cadastral classification and land quality evaluation, land consolidation and land survey for special needs, topographic and cartographic activities, mapping of the territory of the Republic of Srpska, keeping technical archives of original plans and maps, basic geodetic works, issuing and revoking geodetic licenses, issuance and revocation of the license for surveying of the territory of the Republic of Srpska from the airspace for the purposes of the survey; Central address register, the register of spatial units, GARS Geodetic Information System (GIS) and Geospatial Data Infrastructure of the Republic of Srpska (GDIRS); register of geographic names; geodetic survey verification in engineering and technical areas; legal ownership and other real property relating rights; expropriation, usurpation, agrarian relations; property affairs in connection with the real estate on which the Republic of Srpska and local governments have the right of ownership; supervisory, normative-legal and analytical affairs; realization of international projects in the field of geodetic and property-legal affairs on territory of RS;. Centralized structure Main office Sector for general and legal affairs Sector for economic and financial affairs Sector for property affairs Sector for the establishment and keeping up to date of the real-estate cadastre Sector for geodetic works Sector for geoinformation technologies Regional offices 63 organizational units over Republic of Srpska Republic Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs of the Republic of Srpska (GARS) is an independent, self-governing public administration service. 123

124 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) 1.6. Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) As per current valid Rulebook on systematization... (new is currently under adaptation) a total number of 837 employees engaged in GARS we have 8 nominated civil servants, 771 permanently employed people (from which 526 are state employees and 245 appointees) and 58 employed on contract (from which 35 are state employees and 23 are appointees). According to employment structure 45% of employees are those with high education degree, while 55% are with secondary school. 35% of all employed are younger than 45 years of age, while 56% of employees has up to 25 years of working experience. 62% of all employees are women. In the Republic of Srpska the transition from a dual real estate registration system (the land register, as ownership register and cadastre, as technical register) to a single real estate registration system (the Real Estate Cadastre (REC)) which represents best practice is on-going. This transition was facilitated by a new Law on Survey and Cadastre of Republic of Srpska on Until fully establishment of REC, property rights will be gradually moved from land registry to real estate cadastre. GARS is responsible for both registers. Since all property registers are under GARS responsibilities, number of staff is the same as 1.4. In general, 44% of all GARS employees have geodetic background, 25% of them have law background and 31% of all employees have other types of educational background. 2. Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources 2.4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any Real estate cadastre with harmonized land book (according to former legislation)- 10% New real estate cadastre according to The Law on survey and cadastre - 6% Approx.70 % Approx. 8,5 million Euros, Republic of Srpska budget funds, 4 million Euros, World Bank RERP project RERP Project (Real estate registration project) World Bank credit funds ( ) under implementation, CILAP Project(Capacity Building for Improvement of Land Administration and Procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina) Kingdom of Sweden government donor support ( ), extended implementation period, IMPULS Project (Cooperation in the Western Balkan region - Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the region of Western Balkan) The Kingdom of Sweden support to Western Balkan region - donor project ( ), Public Services for the Tangible Property Market and European Integration, The Kingdom of Norway donor project ( ), INSPIRATION Project EU IPA funds Orthophoto maps creation for B&H EU IPA funds

125 2.5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so CILAP-2 Twinning project suported by SIDA. Last month Republic Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs of the Republic of Srpskahas signed agreement for continuation of Swedish supported CILAP Project until end of Project for preparation of Flood Hazard Maps and Flood Risk Maps financed by Western Balkans Investment Frameworks with expected results: maps, LIDAR data for river basins. 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I )alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices GARS Geoportal is established and operable on following address: Establishment and construction of Geoportal of Republic of Srpska that will enable access to cadastral and land registry data as well as other spatial data is currently part of spatial data infrastructure establishment. Whole territory of Republic of Srpska (49% of territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina). Overall pricing policy is regulated by Law on fees for survey services and use of land and real estate cadastre data of the Republic of Srpska, Decision on the fees for the use of survey and real estate cadastre data and services of the Republic administration for geodetic and property affairs Based on Law on fees for survey services and use of land and real estate cadastre data of the Republic of Srpska - for republic institutions of Republic of Srpska data preparation and distribution is free of charge Data access restrictions, if any Data access restrictions are stipulated by: Law on Free Access to Information of the Republic of Srpska. Bylaw on the conditions and manner of storing and protection of data of the Geodetic information system of the Republic administration for geodetic and property affairs of the Republic of Srpska 3.5. Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? It is regulated by following documents: Decision on the fees for the use of survey and real estate cadastre data and services of the Republic administration for geodetic and property affairs Bylaw on the conditions and manner of keeping and protection of data of the Geodetic information system of the Republic administration for geodetic and property affairs of the Republic of Srpska All data exchange formats and datasets for public agencies and other legal entities are uniform and prescribed by relevant rulebooks and regulations but it is possible to meet particular user requirements with additional fee for service. 125

126 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data 4.1. Which digital topographic data are available? 4.2. Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? 4.3. To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? 4.4. Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? Raster form: topographic maps, scale: 1:25000, 1:50000, 1:100000, 1: Overview topographic maps, scale: 1:300000, 1:500000, 1: topographic maps,scale 1:50000 with inter entityborder line (Published by National Imagery and Mapping Agency of The USA) Basic state maps (размјере: 1: 5000, 1:10000) Orthophotos with different resolutions Digital terrain models with different resolutions rawphotogrammetric materials Vector form: Topographic Map 1: No For whole territory of Republic of Srpska in 50 cm ground resolution, and for 20% (urban areas) in 25 cm ground resolution. According to ongoing grant projects related to flood management in B&H (one financed by Western Balkans Investment Frameworks and other by UNDP) it is expected to get lidar data during this and the next year (for main river basins) 5. NMCA legal framework 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) Law on republic administration ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 118/08, 11/09, 74/10, 24/12, 121/12, 15/16) Law on survey and cadaster of Republic of Srpska ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 6/12) Law on financing survey and real estate cadaster establishment ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 20/07 и 92/09), Law on updating survey and land cadaster ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 19/96 и 15/10), Law on fees for survey services and use of land and real estate cadastre data of the Republic of Srpska ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 92/09), Law on property law ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 124/08, 58/09, 95/11, 60/15), Law on expropriation ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 112/06, 110/08, 79/15) 126

127 5.2. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements This issue is jurisdiction of Ministry of spatialplanning, civil engineering and ecology regulated by: Law on spatial planning and construction( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 40/13, 106/15) Bylaw on preconditions, billing price, and fees on building legalization ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 97/13, 23/16) 5.3. Availability of main legislation Pages/Prostorno_uredjenje_i_gradjenje.aspx 5.4. Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure 5.5. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.6. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry. Service and data providers (survey, survey sketch, cadastral map copy, photogrammetric materials, certificates from available official land administration registers) According to assessed information from January of about 20% of requests for legalisation out of in total is applied to the local authority in charge of legalization ( ). This job is already done after merging of cadastre and land registry under GARS umbrella in 2011, and especially by adoption of new Law on survey and cadastre of RS. 6. Status of key registers 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key registers on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible. No 6 different registers of land administration: REC based on new surveywith ownership, REC based on new survey with users, Census cadastre with Austro-Hung. old maps or even without maps, Land cadastre based on Austro-Hung. old survey, Land cadastre based on new survey, Land register, Communal utilities cadastre, 4 different public registers Central address registers, Register of spatial units Register of geographic names Register of real estate prices (in preparation phase) 127

128 Who are the key users of registers of your institution? 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability Government Public agencies Local administration Business Citizens Currently there is not exchange of registers data No, we have intentions to connect main registers, as one of results of establishment of geospatial data infrastructure of Republic of Srpska GSDI RS. It is also part of e-government strategy of Government of Republic of Srpska. 7. Private sector 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued 7.4. Number of surveying companies 7.5. Number of licensed geodetic surveyors Yes, it is regulated by: Law on survey and cadastre of the Republic of Srpska( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 6/12) Rule of Licenses for geodetic organizations, Geodetic license and authorization for the recording from airspace of territory of the Republic of Srpska ( Official gazette of the Republic of Srpska, no. 11/14) Republic administration for geodetic and property affairs of the Republic of Srpska preparation of technical documentation and technical control over the execution of geodetic works which envisages development of the main project, carrying out geodetic works which envisages development of the main project carrying out geodetic works in maintenance of Real Estate Cadastre and maintenance of utility cadastre. Geodetic license of the first degree allows: management and technical control over the execution of geodetic works for which is regulated the main project, execution of these works, as well as project development (high education degree in geodesy, 3 year-experience) Geodetic license of the second degree allows: surveying work in keeping up to date of the real estate cadastre and utility cadastre, producing field maps in engineering-technical areas for which is not prepared a main project (high education degree in geodesy or, 1 year-experience) 20 companies + 71 geodetic parlours Certain number of licensed geodetic surveyors is precondition for registering geodetic company (parlour). Momentarily is issued 58 licenses (according to the legislation, dead line is end of 2016.) 8. Purpose of the land administration system 128

129 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? 8.3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? Ownership protection Secure Investments Secure transactions Yes, by providing information about real estate and property to the tax authority and citizens too. Yes 9. Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration Reform program exist in your country? No, our related program is with exact name Program on survey and real estate cadastre establishment Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs Strategic Goal 1: Achieving an efficient, reliable and safe system of unified register of real estate cadastre, as a single register in the Republic of Serbian. Strategic Goal 2: Providing preconditions for real estate market and the creation of prerequisites for mass valuation of real estate in the Republic of Srpska. Strategic Goal 3: Enabling the preconditions for the creation of adequate quality and unique geodetic, cadastral and property-legal policy in the Republic of Serbian Strategic Goal 4: The realization of the concept of e-government in order to effectively serve the needs and requirements of all users Strategic Goal 5: Ensuring timely and reliable topographic and cartographic material as an important resource and the basis of all modern GIS system without which there is no space management. Strategic Goal 6: Establishment of Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Republic of Srpska. Strategic Goal 7: Completion of the new survey ofremainingterritory of the Republic of Srpska. Program on survey and real estate cadastre establishment Program on survey and real estate cadastre establishment Achieving an efficient, reliable and safe system of unified register of real estate cadastre, as a single register in the Republic of Serbian. Providing preconditions for real estate market and the creation of prerequisites for mass valuation of real estate in the Republic of Srpska. Establishment of Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Republic of Srpska. 129

130 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? According to The Law on survey and cadastre of Republic of Srpska the main approach is through fully transparent legal procedures conducted by the authorized commissions verify harmonized data by public display and after all establish real estate cadastre, with data on maps and legal data (rights,responsibilities, restrictions) at one place logically (database) and physically (property sheet). 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) 1,421 (data from 2014 year) Area (km 2 ) km² Gross national product per capita (euro) (for year) Number of parcels Around % of parcels in rural areas 80% % of parcels in urban areas 20% Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights Around for year approximate: Annual number of mortgages Approximately in total: Approximately for 2015 year: around LA in supporting to the strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? Investments in highways Investments in energetic sector Investments in natural disaster risk management Data owner and provider. Planning phase, mainly Implementation phase, if we are one of end users The major issue is inherited a large number of records with data that were different in accuracy, purpose, even the jurisdiction (examples of land cadastre, real estate, land register, a book contract for the purchase of apartments and business premises) as during the formation of the new, unified records of real estate registry requires a comprehensive harmonization of different information which in turn requires a lot of time. Byestablishing of new real estate cadastre register, it is expected that these problems will be solved because we are solving all inconsistences during this process. 130

131 11.5. List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Expropriation for: Highways: Banja Luka Doboj, Banja Luka Gradiška, 5C, Many regional roads Coal power plants: Stanari, Ugljevik Water power plants: Rudo Establishing of register price of real estate (in progress) There is no such records officially published. 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? Establishment of real estate cadastre. REC is established for 75 cadastral municipalities out of 1680, and for about 50 more is in progress. Continuation ofestablishment of real estate cadastre. Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 3 Does your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No, but it is in procedure. 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent law b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (e.g. 60%) c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 131

132 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No, but it is in preparation phase c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No, because of Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 entities + Brčko District) 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? a) Discovery network service c) Catalog service (with catalog web interface on client side) b) View network service i. WMS (administrative units, orthoimages, statistical units, content of digital topographic maps, cadastral parcels) c) Download network service i. Only for registered users (administrative units, statistical units, vectorised content of digital topographic maps, cadastral parcels) d) Transformation network service d) Not available. 12 Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes, for the following data. b) No. 132

133 Republic Geodetic Authority of the Republic of Serbia RGA 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) The Republic Geodetic Authority - RGA is a special organization that performs professional and public administration tasks related to state survey, real estate cadastre, utility cadastre, basic geodetic works, address register, topographic and cartographic activities, property valuation, geodetic and cadastral information system, the National Spatial Data Infrastructure and geodetic works in engineering and technical fields. RGA is organizationally divided into 6 sectors: Sector for Geodetic Works, Sector for Professional and Inspection Supervision, Sector for Real Estate Cadastre, Sector for Topography and Cartography, Sector for Informatics and Communications, and Sector for Legal Affairs. The Sector for Real Estate Cadastre entails Regional Real Estate Cadastre Office Belgrade and Local Real Estate Cadastre Offices covering cities and municipalities at the local level. RGA is a special organization within the Government of the Republic of Serbia. Supervision of the work of the RGA is conducted by the Ministry of Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure Employees: 699 University degree, 400 college education, 1078 secondary education, 21 appointee. 185 employees hired with fixed-term contract. Scope of work of the RGA geodetic works and state administration tasks relating to: basic geodetic works; Cadastral and Land consolidation survey; establishment, renewal and maintenance of real estate cadastre; utility survey, the establishment and maintenance of utility cadastre; Professional supervision of geodetic works; issuance and revocation of licenses for geodetic organizations; issuance and revocation of surveying licenses; issuance and revocation of the license for aerial images acquisition over the territory of the Republic of Serbia for the purposes of state survey; address register; maintaining the spatial units register; survey of state border and keeping a register of the state border; cadastral classification and soil fertility evaluation; calculation of cadastral revenue; property valuation and registration; remote sensing, topographical survey and topographic and cartographic activities; issuing of cartographic and other publications and approval for issuance of cartographic publications; keeping records of geographic names and nominating members of the Committee for the Standardization of Geographical Names to the Government; the establishment, maintenance and disposal of geodetic and cadastral information system; management of archive documents pertaining to state survey, real estate cadastre, 133

134 utility cadastre and topographic and cartographic activities; participation in the establishment and maintenance of National Spatial Data Infrastructure; inspection of geodetic organizations operation; validation of geodetic bases for surveying in engineering and technical fields; the provision of services within the scope of the RGA within the framework of international cooperation; geomagnetism; aeronomy Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) / 2. Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources 2.4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any 2.5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so Number of parcels: 18,806,093 Number of constructions: 4,695,786 housing: 2,050,010 auxilliary: 1,809,345 other: 836,431 Number of parts of construction: 1,014,898 apartments: 853,397 offices/shops: 88,486 other: 73,015 70% Budget financing, source 01 amount: RSD 3,412,438,000 Donations from foreign countries, source 05 amount RSD 36,145,000 Financing from foreign debt, source 11 amount of RSD 400,000. World Bank funded project - REMP (October 1 st, 2015 December 31 st, 2020) Impuls project (June 2014 December 2018) ELF project (since January 21 st, 2016) / 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I )alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data Technical textual information: Operational Cadastral map: Operational Legal textual information: Operational Internet address for all: 134

135 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices Technical textual information: 98 % Cadastral map: 70 % Legal textual information: 98 % Technical textual information: free for some government bodies but pricing for everybody else; required signed contract; price is available on service default page, in News sector Cadastral map: free of charge, required signed contract Legal textual information: free for some government bodies but pricing for everybody else; required signed contract; price is available on service default page, in News sector 3.4. Data access restrictions, if any Technical textual information: data are available only to legal entities with which RGA has signed contract Cadastral map: data are available only to legal entities with which RGA has signed contract Legal textual information: data are available only to legal entities with which RGA has signed contract 3.5. Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? In this moment there are no download services. This will be developed in the future. There are some data exchange formats defined in rule book for all cadastral datasets. 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data 4.1. Which digital topographic data are available? 1. 3D Vector topographic data 3D vector topographic data for themes: transport networks, hydrographic network, constructions, utilities, relief and land cover in scale of 1: were collected for the territory of southern Serbia, while data collection for the territory of eastern Serbia and the City of Belgrade has commenced. Positional accuracy of these data is ± 1 m, height accuracy is ± 1.5 m. This data is aggregated from 40cm aerial images, from the period D vector topographic data were collected for three urban areas (Jagodina, Bor and Palic) the themes: transport networks, hydrographic network, construction, utilities, relief and land cover in the scale of 1: Positional accuracy of these data is ± 1 m, height accuracy is ± 1.5 m. This data is aggregated from 40cm aerial images, from the period Basic state map in the scale of 1 : During the period , approximately 42 % of the territory of the Republic of Serbia was covered. Map sheets are available in tiff format (scanned analog maps). During the period , approximately 0.5 % of the territory of the Republic of Serbia was covered using the OTM database. Map sheets are available in tiff format. 135

136 3. Topographic map in the scale of 1 : During the period , approximately 10 % of the territory of the Republic of Serbia was covered using the OTM database. Map sheets are available in tiff format. 4. Digital Terrain Model National coverage (format: ASCII xyz + vector (shp)); Epochs and ; Quality: 25m grid/7m grid, average height accuracy ± 1.6 m, the territory of the Republic of Serbia; 10m grid, average height accuracy ± 0.8 m, territory of CM s with the cadastral data outside the state coordinate system; 5m grid, average height accuracy ± 0.4 m, urban areas; 1m grid, average height accuracy ± 0.07 m, Tisa River flooding area ~ 2920 km Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? 4.3. To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? a) Yes Law on State Survey and Cadastre ( Official Gazette RS, number 72/09, 18/10, 65/13, 15/15 CC decision and 96/15) and Mid-Term Work Program of the Republic Geodetic Authority Production of new topographic maps, at scales of 1:20000 and 1:5000 following the dynamics of vector topographic data acquisition. 1. Aerial-photogrammetric acquisition of the territory of the Republic of Serbia: ; Satellite images acquisition of the territory of the Republic of Serbia: SPOT5 (archive mosaic); 2010/2011 SPOT5; 2014/2015 SPOT6. a) Law on State Survey and Cadastre ( Official Gazette RS, number 72/09, 18/10, 65/13, 15/15 CC decision and 96/15) prescribes that the RGA shall perform periodic aerial acquisition over the territory of the Republic of Serbia at least once in 5 years. b) National coverage (territory of the Republic of Serbia); Urban areas DOP GSD 10cm; CM s with cadastral data being outside the state coordinate system DOP GSD 20cm; 3. Territory of the Republic of Serbia DOP GSD 40cm, satellite mosaic GSD 2.5m, satellite mosaic GSD 1.5m production ongoing. DOP positional accuracy ±2GSD (format: tif/tfw). 136

137 4.4. Which other digital topographic/thematic data are available? 4.5. Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? 1. Agricultural land cover map Coverage: part of the territory of AP Vojvodina 15185km 2 (raster 6m resolution (tif) +vector (shp)); Epoch 2013 (SPOT6 satellite images); Agricultural land cover map classes: artificial areas, winter crops (wheat, oats, barley, rye, canola), summer crops (corn, sunflower, soybean, tobacco), summer crops (potatoes, sugar beet) other (clover, alfalfa, vines, orchards, spring crops, bare land), green areas, bushes, forests, wetlands and water surfaces. 2. Flood map Coverage: km 2 the territory of western Serbia (raster 1.5 and 0.5 m resolution (tif) +vector (shp); Epoch May/June 2014 (SPOT6 and Pleiades satellite images); Flood map classes: water, waterlogged land, potential landslides. 3. Hiking-tourist maps National parks and protected natural areas: Fruška Gora, Tara, Đerdap, Stara planina, Suva planina, Radan planina, Vlasina, Valjevske planine, Zasavica, Stari Begej and Carska bara, Obedska bara, Rajac, Golija. During the period , using the following data: topographic maps, orthophoto maps, field recognition. Map sheets are in cdr format. 4. Tourist maps Belgrade City territory, sailing Danube through Serbia, Monasteries and churches in Serbia Central Serbia, West Serbia, East Serbia, South Serbia, Vojvodina During the period , using the following data: topographic maps, orthophoto maps, field recognition. Map sheets are in cdr format. a) Yes Country Action Programme - Recovery of flood damages (IPA II), implemented by the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Office for Public Investments Management. b) High accuracy digital terrain model production (and accompanying products) for the purposes of hazard and flooding risk maps production to improve the flood protection system for 75 important flooding areas in the Republic of Serbia. 5. NMCA legal framework 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) 5.2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) Law on State Survey and Cadastre Law on Planning and Development Law on General Administrative Procedure Law on Public Property Law on Basic Property Rights Law on Mortgage Law on Public Notaries Law on Agricultural Land Law on Spatial Units Register Law on Construction Legalization Law on Expropriation 137

138 5.3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements Exists 5.4. Availability of main legislation In Serbian propisi&menuid= &languag eid= Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure 5.6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry. Data providers During the period from 2013 to 2016, 38,983 constructions were legalized and registered in the Real Estate Cadastre Completed 6. Status of key registers 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key registers on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible Who are the key users of registers of your institution? 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability No Real Estate Cadastre Address Registry Spatial Units Register Utility Cadastre Register of Geographic Names Governmental organs (ministries and special organizations) Local governments Public enterprises Banks Geodetic organizations Law firms Realtors Citizens There is some data exchange of key registers within RGA jurisdiction. Users are mainly governmental institution like Ministry of interior, Serbian Business Registers Agency, etc. Yes. Real Estate Management Project in Serbia (WB Project) 138

139 7. Private sector 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued 7.4. Number of surveying companies 7.5. Number of licensed geodetic surveyors Yes, Law on State Survey and Cadastre ( Official Gazette RS, number 72/09, 18/10, 65/13 and 15/15 and 96/15); art. 12 through 22 Rulebook on License for Geodetic Organization Work and Geodetic License ( Official Gazette RS, number 33/10 and 2/15); Republic Geodetic Authority Serbian Chamber of Engineers 1. for land administration purposes 2. for other purposes: the RGA issues geodetic licenses (1 st and 2 nd order) and licenses for work Geodetic works that may be performed by a geodetic organization holding RGA s license for work: 1) producing technical documents and professional supervision of geodetic works performance for which the main design production is prescribed; 2) geodetic works performance for which the main design production is prescribed; 3) geodetic works performance in real estate cadastre and utility cadastre maintenance; 4) producing geodetic base maps in engineering-technical fields that do not require the main design production; 5) designing geodetic demarcation in the field of urban planning; 6) implementation of geodetic demarcation designs in the field of urban planning; 7) cadastral classification, soil fertility evaluation and land consolidation valuation Purpose of the land administration system 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? Reliable property rights and property transactions registration Collecting taxes based on up-to-date cadastral data Decision-making using quality geoinformation Yes. Property information is being delivered to the Tax Administration. Yes 139

140 9. Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration Reform program exist in your country? 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? Yes Government of RS, RGA, responsible ministries, WB and donators Real Estate Management Project in Serbia (WB Project) 1. Institutional strengthening of the RGA 2. Information system of the Real Estate Cadastre 3. Development of the appraisal system Pursuant to the Law on State Survey and Cadastre: state survey, real estate cadastre, utility cadastre, basic geodetic works, address register, topographic and cartographic activities, property valuation, geodetic and cadastral information system, and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure are of general interest for the Republic of Serbia. 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) 7,470, Area (km 2 ) 88, Gross national product per capita (euro) Number of parcels 21,000, % of parcels in rural areas 81% % of parcels in urban areas 19% Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights Annual number of mortgages LA in supporting to the strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? 1. Highway construction, corridor Highway construction, corridor Belgrade waterfront 140

141 11.2. Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Preparing and issuing textual and graphical cadastral data Both in planning and in implementation. The common problem is great volume of data and data quality. The lack of digital cadastral map impedes data preparation. Providing data/services important for implementation of the activities of strategic importance for the Republic of Serbia: Support in implementing the National Program for Crisis Management and drafting the National Risk Assessment (Government of Serbia, MoI Sector for Emergency Situations); Country Action Programme - Recovery of flood damages (IPA II), (Producing DTM for 75 significant flooding areas in the Republic of Serbia), Government of the Republic of Serbia; Implementation of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (Chapter 11: Agriculture and Rural Development, LPIS implementation (IACS part)), Government of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection; Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Changes (Government of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection); Implementation of the EU Directive on Birds and Habitats - NATURA2000 Project; Production of strategic noise maps; No 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? The main focus was on the successful beginning of the World Bank funded project implementation and passing the Law on State Survey and Cadastre. The Law was passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia, November 26th, The project is implemented according to the project plan for the first year. Successful further implementation of the World Bank funded project Decrease the number of unresolved cases at first and second instance Passing the Law on National Spatial Data Infrastructure by the end of

142 Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 3 Does your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent law b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No 142

143 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? a) Discovery network service i. Yes. Administrative units and heights. ii. iii. XX XX b) View network service i. Yes. Administrative units and heights. ii. iii. XX XX c) Download network service i. No ii. iii. XX XX d) Transformation network service i. No ii. iii. XX XX 12 Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes, for the following data: administrative units, DEM, geographic names, basic land cover. b) No. 143

144 Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia GURS 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) The Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (GURS) implement the following joint tasks: prepare the national land survey service annual program and the report on its implementation; organize the work of the regional surveying and mapping authorities, monitor their work, and ensure the uniform implementation of the national land survey service assignments; direct the implementation of development assignments pertaining to surveying and mapping activities; draft regulations in the field of surveying and mapping activities; provide for the implementation of international obligations of national land survey service. Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia is a public body within the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning. The Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia comprises the Main office, the Real estate office, the Mass real estate valuation office, the Geodesy office and twelve regional surveying and mapping administrations. These have been set up for the reasons of streamlined operation and the increased accessibility of administrative and professional tasks and services implemented by the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia. There are also 42 branch officess where regional oficess perform their work with citisens. Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia is a public body within the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning. Surveyors 263 Agronomists 8 IT specialists 10 Lawyers, financial and administrative staff 200 Total 481 employees in April Land book (registry) at Supreme court is responsible for registration of real property rights in Slovenia. vsrs/ Supreme court is independent body, but organizational and operational questions are carried out by Ministry of Justice. Land book (land registry) are organized at district courts at 44 locations as evidential department at district courts.. 144

145 1.6. Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) Cca. 270 employees with law or other administrative education work at district courts at 44 locations. 2. Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources 2.4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any 2.5. Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so 100% A digital cadastral representation of land parcels and buildings was produced for the entire territory of the Republic of Slovenia. The Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia together with Land Registry is responsible for maintenance of cadastral and ownership data in Slovenia. Cadastral maps were produced for the entire territory of the Republic of Slovenia for the last 200 years and was digitized in period from % covered the territory of the Republic of Slovenia but some does not have adequate positional accuracy for all todays users purposes and needs ,00 (2016) from government budget Surveying and Mapping Authority (SMA) in co-operation with partners submitted a project from the program area»environmental monitoring and integrated planning and control«. The project»modernization of spatial data infrastructure to reduce risks and impacts of floods«long-term goal is facilitating water management and reduce the risks and impacts of floods and at the same time increase the consistency of the data and their related services to the requirements of the INSPIRE directive. Project was financed by EEA Financial Mechanism Programme for Slovenia SI02 in amount of ,00 EUR in period from At the moment Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia is preparing new project proposal called espatial. For the purposes of establishing efficient spatial management and real-estate management a programme of eprostor (espatial) projects will be implemented. This will provide a single infrastructure for spatial information, a spatial information system as well as renovation of the real-estate records system. Spatial information databases and services, relating to spatial information, will be consistent with the requirements set under the Infrastructure for Spatial Information Act.. Project will be financed by Operational Programme for the Implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy in the Period in amount of 22 mio EUR in period

146 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I )alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices Established : (web address: Cadastral data are available also at portal eprostor as public access to real estate data ( Expert public could access to data as registered users ( prostor3.gov.si/preg/) Land registry data are available at portal e-sodišče ( 100% Free of charge for public purposess: a.) All data are freely accessible through the portal for non commercial and public purposes. b.) Existing pricing policy and prices for commercial use of data are accessible at the e-prostor portal ( si/si/dostop_do_podatkov/mapa/cenik/) 3.4. Data access restrictions, if any Restrictions to view personal data of real estate owners exist for personal data about natural person owners of real estate for the general public users. The portal for the expert public users shows also natural persons as owner with their name and year of birth if this is regulated in material laws Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service Download services at the moment are fully operated for government agencies and public bodies. For citizens download is possible only for limited number of datasets (general topographical maps etc. at address: dostop_do_podatkov/dostop_do_podatkov/ 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? INSPIRE implementation provides a uniform data structure for all users (public and Private sector) for data that falls under INSPIRE data themes. As the implementation of INSPIRE is not yet complete and some data does not fall under its jurisdiction some in house standards for exchange formats are still agreed upon by individual public agencies and legal entities. (formats are described at: 146

147 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data 4.1. Which digital topographic data are available? Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? 1. Basic topographic map in raster form - TTN 1:5000, 1: (100% coverage), not updated anymore 2. Digital topographical database vector form- DTK 1:5000 (60% coverage urban areas), CAS updates 3. State topographical map - DTK 1:25000 (100% coverage), not updated anymore 4. Generalised cartographical database vector form)- GKB 1: roads, waterbodies, contour lines, railway, , regularly updated 5. State topographical map vector and raster - DTK 1:50000 (1005 coverage), General state topographical map raster form - DPK 1:250000, , , (100% coverage), updated a) Yes, - for what period 5-7 years update cycle b) No c) Year of shooting d) Frequency of updating e) Coverage f) Resolution of DOF Cyclic aerial survey and orthophoto maps production are recording of colour orthophoto data for the entire country (2-4 year cycle) in resolution of 25 cm. Yes LIDAR data for some regions are freely accessible through the Environmental Atlas ( aspx?id=atlas_okolja_axl@arso) Used for determining water overflow areas of rivers. 5. NMCA legal framework 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) Organizational Regulations Act on land survey service act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 77/2010) Decision on the change of the status of the Land Survey and Photogrametry Institute of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy into the public institution the Land Survey Institute of Slovenia (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 84/2000, 26/2003, 77/ ZGeoD-1 and 38/2011) Material Regulations Real-Estate Recording Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 47/2006, 65/ Judgement of the CC, 106/ ZDoh-2H, 47/ ZUKD-1A, 79/ Judgement of the CC and 55/ ZUKD-1B) Real Property Mass-Appraisal Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 50/2006, 87/2011, 40/ ZUJF and 22/ Judgement of the CC) 147

148 Cadastra Income Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 9/2011, 47/2012, 55/2013 and 41/2014) Act on designating areas and naming and marking settlements, streets and buildings (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 25/2008) Act on georeference system (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 25/2014) 5.2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) 5.3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements Spatial Planning Act (OJ RS, No. 33/07) Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters - Aarhus Convention (OJ RS, No. 62/04) Construction Act (OJ RS, št. 102/04 uradno prečiščeno besedilo, 14/05 popr., 92/05 ZJC-B, 93/05 ZVMS, 111/05 odl. US, 126/07, 108/09, 61/10 ZRud-1, 20/11 odl. US, 57/12, 101/13 ZDavNepr, 110/13 in 19/15) Spatial Development Strategy of Slovenia Act regarding the siting of spatial arrangements of national significance in physical space (OJ RS, no. 80/10) Agricultural Land Act (OJ RS, št. 71/11 UPB 58/12 in 27/16) Land Register Act (OJ RS, št. 33/95, 50/02 odl. US in 58/03 ZZK-1) Act on the Acquisition of the Strata Title of a Part of a Building on the Proposal of the Owner and on Determining the Land Belonging Thereto (OJ RS, št. 45/08 in59/11) Exist - as part of regular legal framework regarding construction (Construction Act) 5.4. Availability of main legislation In what language SI and EN Is there an Internet access Yes Official Journal / Public Gazette (Uradni list RS ) Legal Information System (PIS RS ) Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure 5.6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry. Surveyors in Slovenia are involved in some parts of legalisation procedures for example: determining ownership in space, determining the dimensions of objects, prepare of geodetic measurement study etc.. Estimated number of illegal objects In Slovenia we have registered more than buildings and estimated illegal objects, but there is probably even more objects not in line with elements from buildings permits. Number is not known (please explain the reasons) This area is not under jurisdiction of GURS. During the history there was two proposals of legal acts for merging dual registration system in unique authority or agency (in year 2000 and 2007) but both legal procedure was stopped and now there are not planned any new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA. 148

149 6. Status of key registers 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key registers on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible Who are the key users of registers of your institution? 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? 6.5. Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability No ZK - Land cadastre (GURS) KS - Buildings cadastre (GURS) ZK GJI - Public infrastructure cadastre (GURS) REN - Real estate register (GURS) DOF - Digital orthophotos Digital terrain Model CRS - Coordinate reference system register ETN - Real Estate market registry RPE - Register of spatial units EZI Geographical names Register DTB - Topographical database Public administration, Private sector (used for investments and for providing services) general public Free inside public administration, on the basis of a written requests or service level agreements. Yes 7. Private sector 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued Yes. Act on land survey service act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 77/2010) - ZGeoD Chamber of Engineers of Slovenija (Section of land surveyors (home page: Land administration purposes For performing geodetic services defined in law: parcelation, registering real estate into cadastre 7.4. Number of surveying companies 7.5. Number of licensed geodetic surveyors 272 surveying companies ( ) Source: izspcompany_pi1%5bmode%5d=newsearch&tx_izspcompany_ pi1%5bpointer%5d=0 390 licensed surveyors - pooblaščenih geodetov ( ) Source: izsperson_pi1%5bmode%5d=search&tx_izsperson_ pi1%5bpointer%5d=0 149

150 8. Purpose of the land administration system 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? 8.3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? Registering spatial objects and placement of recorded objects into space Maintenance of core data for spatial data infrastructure in Slovenia Managing a common coordinate system for all measurements in the nations (transformation from D48 - Gauss Kruger into D96/TM ETRS89) Indirectly, taxation of real estate is currently in the jurisdiction of each individual municipality. The municipalities CAN use data for ZK, KS and REN for the purpuses of taxation (nadomestilo uporabe stavbnega zemljišča). A proposed new real estate tax was repealed by the supreme court. Yes. 9. Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration Reform program exist in your country? 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented No. In recent decades, it has been shown that a multipurpose land administration system, i.e. land cadastre, brings many advantages for the society and might importantly contribute to its prosperity. Due to the vital role of land administration for the society, new visions and conceptual models of land administration systems have become the topic of several international scientific as well as professional discussions and initiatives. The main driving forces for improvement of the land administration in Slovenia is Ministry of environment and spatial planinng in relation with improving spatial planinng procedures and Ministry of Finance in relation of implementing new taxation policy on real estate. The most important role is related also with imroving quality of real estate data where Surveying and Mapping Authority isimportant driving force. The main programs in the past was The Real Estate Registration Modernization Project ( ) financial support by World Bank loan and relised to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of real estate administration systems in Slovenia. There was eight main components. The land and building cadastre component prepares maps, improves cadastral maps, installs computer linkages to the land registry, and sets up a building register. The land register component removes backlogs in land registry offices, assists in computerization of the register, installs computer linkages to the cadastre, and improves registration. (more infor at: slovenia-real-estate-registration-modernization-project ) Second program was related with development and implementation of the real estate mass valuation system in the Republic of Slovenia and reform the current property taxation system. Within general real estate valuation procedure Surveying and Mapping 150

151 Authority of the Republic of Slovenia performed valuation model s specification and calibration in many iterations, adjusted draft proposal of the valuation models with municipalities in 2009 and executed trial value determination in In the same period of time the Real Estate data Register was established and enforcement as a public register in Real estate data, including assessed value was until that time free of charge available on the internet. Transparency of existing situation in the field of real estate registration was gain many other reforms and activities within land administration system in Slovenia List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? interoperability and data and service sharing relation with egovernment program transparency of land administration and real estate valuation With Government decision from 2010 Surveying and Mapping Authority and Supreme Court (Land Registry) established technical connectivity between land and building cadastre database and land registry database, which perform automatic exchange of data updating procedure. 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) Area (km 2 ) Gross national product per capita (euro) EUR Number of parcels % of parcels in rural areas 81,5% (agricultural census 2010) % of parcels in urban areas 18,5 % Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights Surveying and Mapping Authority receive and solve administrative applications in During the process of settlings those applications was made changes on more than Cca , At land registry was solved cases in year 2014, where changes was based on Land cadastre and Building Cadastre automatic reported changes Annual number of mortgages in year LA in supporting to the strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? List at least max three strategic investments (highway, railway, utilities ) Hydro power stations on Sava River Railway (second line) Divača Koper 151

152 11.2. Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Regular registration of real estate and in some cases provides projects related with improvement of positional accuracy of land cadastre maps in digital form. Planning phase or in some stage of implementation< or both. Biggest obstacles are related with long procedures regarding spatial planning process for biggest infrastructure objects. (many stakeholders and interest in the process). Some examples of Hidro power stations on Sava River(Krško, Blanca, Brežice) N/A 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? Preparation for espatial program of projects. In next week s we expect decision of formal starting the project and financing planned activities. Improving data quality. Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 152

153 3 Does your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent law b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (e.g. 60%) c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? a) Discovery network service d) Surveying and Mapping Authority has describe all datasets and services in National metadata portal available at Slovenian INSPIRE geoportal ( where users could find discovery network services for 45 datasets and services ( ch?resulttype=details&fast=index&_content_type=json&from=1&to=20&sortby=relevance&any=geod etska%20uprava) b) V i e w n e t w o r k s e r v i c e Surveying and Mapping Authority was developed 9 view network services (WMS) available at prostor4.gov.si/imps/srv/slv/catalog.search#/search?facet.q=type%2fservice&resulttype=details&fa st=index&_content_type=json&from=1&to=20&sortby=relevance&any=geodetska%20uprava%20 Republike%20Slovenije. 153

154 c) T r a n s f o r m a t i o n n e t w o r k s e r v i c e Transformation network services were developed for selected datasets within INSPIRE download services for selected data themes: 3. Geographical names 4. Spatial Units 5. Addresses 6. Cadastre parcels 7. Transport Network 2. Land cover 3. Orto photo 2. Buildings 4. Land Use 6. Utility infrastructure 12 Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes, for the following data are developed INSPIRE compliant network services: ANEKS I 3. Geographical names inspire_gn:gn.geographicalnames inspire_gn:namedplace 4. Spatial Units inspire_au:au.administrativeunit inspire_au:administrativeunit 5. Addresses inspire_addr:address inspire_addr:addressareaname inspire_addr:adminunitname inspire_addr:postaldescriptor inspire_addr:thoroughfarename«6. Cadastre parcels inspire_cp:cp.cadastralparcel inspire_cp:cadastralparcel 7. Transport Network inspire_wms:tn.roadtransportnetwork.roadlink inspire_rtn:roadlink inspire_rtn:formofway«aneks III 2. Buildings inspire_bu-core2d:building inspire_bu:bu.building inspire_bu-core2d:building 6. Utility infrastructure inspire_wms:us.electricitynetwork b) No 154

155 State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia SGA 1. Organisation 1.1. Describe the responsibility of your institution Describe the organizational structure of your institution Position of the institution within public administration (under which ministry, or independent) State Geodetic Administration performs administrative and other work with regard to the following: geodetic and cadastral tasks, especially those related to the creation, renewal and maintenance of survey and real property cadastre; informatisation of the cadastre and geodetic spatial system; topographic-hydrographic mapping, managing geodetic documentation; keeping statistical records of the real property and utility cadastre; geodetic-cadastral tasks related to the state border; development and application of the geodetic survey technologies in science, economy and other activities where spatial interventions are based or realised. In addition, State Geodetic Administration performs other tasks placed within its competences in accordance with special legislation (Article 28 of the Act on the Organisation and Scope of Work of the Ministries and Other State Administrative Bodies, OG no. 150/11, 22/12, 39/13, 125/13 i 148/13). State Geodetic Administration performs tasks from its scope of work at the Head Office and regional cadastral offices (Article 118, para 2 of the State Survey and Real Property Cadastre Act, OG no. 16/07, 124/10 i 56/13). HO Sectors, Stand-Alone Services, Services, Departments RCOs Departments for Real Property Cadastre Departments for Cadastral Programs and Geodetic Works Branch Offices for Real Property Cadastre Branch Offices State Geodetic Administration is a stand-alone state administrative organisation supervised in its work by the Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning. State Geodetic Administration is also a separate item in the budget allocated for the Ministry of Construction and Physical Planning. 155

156 1.4. Number of staff and their qualifications 1.5. Describe the institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) Total number of employees in SGA is 1058, 63% of employees have geodetic background Education university-level: 28% college-level: 12% secondary-school level: 60% 65% of all employees are women Age structure Age strukture Years Female Male Total Total The average number of years 47,23 47,76 The real property registration system in the Republic of Croatia is composed of two registers: the cadastre managed by SGA in which the real property is recorded according to its technical specifications, and the land registry within the municipal courts holding the evidence of real property titles. The Land Registration Management Service (LRMS) is a special unit within MOJ responsible for managing the Land Registry Offices (LROs) which are subordinate to the municipal courts. The land registers keep records on ownership and other rights in rem based on real properties, along with all encumbrances of merit for legal transactions (Sheet B-property sheet and Sheet C-encumbrances sheet) as well as transferred data on the number, form, surface area and extent of land development kept by cadastral offices (Sheet A-possessory sheet). The land registers as registers of land are established for each cadastral municipality in the RoC and represent the basic registers for recording titles, changes to titles and establishment or deletion of other rights in rem as well as other facts of importance for real property legal transactions, as stipulated by law. A record in a land register (registration, pre-registration, notation) is made during a court procedure and is under the jurisdiction of municipal courts in their capacity of land registration offices. 156

157 1.6. Number of staff and their education background in institution responsible for the registration of property rights (land registry) The total number of people employed at the Land Registration Management Service (LRMS) in MoJ is 12 while 65 municipal courts and 106 corresponding land registries employ 877 land registry clerks in total (without LR judges) out of which 736 people are employed full-time while 138 people have fixed-term contracts. The total number of licensed land registry clerks is 285. Educational degree No. of employees secondary school 695 college 110 university 72 Total Progress on the establishment of up-to-date cadastre report update 2.1. Number of properties covered by up-to-date and harmonized cadastre and land book in % 2.2. Area covered by digital cadastre map in % 2.3. Annual NMCA budget for 2016 and sources 2.4. Information about new projects implemented with foreign support or EU funds ( ), if any Real estate cadastre with harmonized land book 27% 100 % Government Funds: approx. 25,191,000 EUR World Bank Funds: 2,443,000 EUR The State Geodetic Administration (SGA) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) implemented the EUR 4.9 million total value joint project Integrated Land Administration System (ILAS) between 2012 and the end of Project preparation began back in The project s objective was to improve the efficiency of the Croatian land registration system, and it was financed through the EU pre-accession IPA I 2010 fund and the state budget. The project was implemented through two service contracts: Support to sporadic transformation and the establishment of land book digital archives for the purpose of establishing the Integrated Land Administration System and Support to the establishment of ILAS components at the SGA, as well as through five supply contacts. The following results have been achieved through project implementation: cadastral maps have been homogenised on the territory of 106 cadastral municipalities (map homogeneity and geometrical accuracy have been improved) and technical specifications for future implementation of homogenisation have been produced; the SGA Geoportal has been improved with new datasets, functionalities and web-services; the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Geoportal has been developed compliant with INSPIRE Directive requirements; the Address Register web-gis system has been developed as well as a system for electronic document management in processing second-instance cases using a document management system platform; a system for carrying out sporadic transformation (procedure for harmonising those cadastral parcels that are identical in cadastral and land registry records regardless of the whole cadastral municipality not being harmonised) has been established; 12.5 million pages of land books have been scanned; a central land book digital archives database has been established; and an IT system to access digital archives has been developed. 157

158 Since the implementation of the integrated land administration system would not be complete without a supply of necessary equipment, a data storage system has been purchased for SGA Data Centre needs, while IT and power supply infrastructure has been installed on 28 cadastral office locations. A central digital archives system was equipped for the MoJ, with computers and printers purchased for 71 land registry offices. Additionally, from September 2014 SGA as junior partner cooperates with Swedesurvey in the implementation of the Project: Organization, Streamlining and Computerization Process in Mapping in the Republic of Moldova. Project if funded from European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument Duration of the project is 2 years Information about works or matters where countries have applied for new/more foreign support, or are in process of doing so SGA is now in the process of preparing the projects for financing from European Social Fund (ESF) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Projects that will be financed form ESF are focused on the development of human capacities of the SGA, while the ERDF projects are focused on Strengthening ICT applications for e-government. 3. Status of development and implementation of electronic information services to the public, i.e. of services providing access via Internet to (I )alphanumerical, (ii) graphical data and (iii) ownership data 3.1. Status in the establishment of Geoportal(s) giving access to cadastral and land registry data 3.2. Geographic coverage and completeness 3.3. Data access pricing policy and prices Technical textual information: Operational dgu/ Cadastral map: Operational SGA Geoportal is established and operable on following address: Legal textual information: Operational Internet address for all data (cadastral offices and land administration in ILAS) is established and operable on following address: Technical textual information: 100% Cadastral map: 100% Legal textual information: 99% Free of charge for public purposes: All data are freely accessible through the portal for non-commercial and public purposes. Data issuing pricing policy is defined by the Ordinance on determining the amount of actual costs of using data the State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre (Official Gazette 148/08, 75/09, 51/13); the actual cost of using the service are not currently fully defined in the Regulations (except CROPOS) Data access restrictions, if any Terms of use of the data are defined in the Ordinance on determining the amount of actual costs of using data the State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre (Official Gazette 148/08, 75/09, 51/13). Terms of use for services are listed on SGA Geoportal

159 3.5. Procedure of data retrieval on the web download service 3.6. Are there agreed data exchange formats and datasets for particular public agencies and other legal entities or is the uniform data set provided to all? Download services at the moment are fully operated for some government agencies There is a uniform data set available for all customers defined in Ordinance on determining the amount of actual costs of using data the State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre (Official Gazette 148/08, 75/09, 51/13). According to special agreements with public institutions, data that are not publicly available are delivered. 4. Status of basic topographic maps and orthophoto data 4.1. Which digital topographic data are available? Data Scale 1: Accuracy (m) Time of production Coverage Format DOF in 3 iteration before % N/A % WMS, raster % WMS, raster HOK TK % WMS, raster % N/A % WMS, raster 2011 in process 50% RH WMS, raster TK more than 5 TK more than 5 TTB % WMS, raster % WMS, raster % vector 2011 in process 50 % RH 4.2. Does the country have an ongoing program of production of new topographic maps? Yes depending on the government funds (every 3 years), currently being updated maps 1:25000 and data topographic base. 159

160 4.3. To what extent is orthophoto data prepared? Year of shooting Freguency of updating Coverage Resolution of DOF in 3 iterations before 2011 every 3 years 100% 0,5 m/pix Does the country have a program of laser scanning (lidar), and for what purposes are laser scanning results used? No 5. NMCA legal framework 5.1. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (main legislation) 5.2. Laws regulating activities of NMCA (secondary legislation) 5.3. Legislation about legalisation of informal building and settlements Geodetic Activity Act (OG no.152/08, 61/11 i 56/13), State Survey and Real Property Cadastre Act (OG no. 16/07, 124/10 i 56/13) National Spatial Data Infrastructure Act (OG no. 56/13). General Administrative Procedure Act (OG no. 47/09) Construction Act (OG no. 153/13) Agricultural Land Consolidation Act (OG no. 51/15) There is Illegal Construction Processing Act (OG 86/12, 143/13) 5.4. Availability of main legislation In Croatian. Availability online: Role of cadastre and surveyors (and/or land registry) in systematic legalisation procedure Licensed surveyors: Produce geodetic images of as-built status of the illegally constructed building Produce a subdivision geodetic report following a decision on defining the building parcel Produce a geodetic report for recording the legalised building Cadastral office: Issue a copy of the cadastral map Issue a statement about the illegally constructed building being present on digital orthophoto maps, cadastral maps or other official base maps prior to 21 June 2011 Issue a statement about the illegally constructed building being present on digital orthophoto map - DOF5/2011 Review and confirm a geodetic report for recording buildings and other structures Recording the legalised building in municipal cadastral documentation 160

161 5.6. Results of legalisation (number of building legalised / implemented in cadastral documentation and land register) in last 4 years 5.7. Status of possible new legislation regarding organizational structure of NMCA with particular focus on merging of cadastre and land registry geodetic reports to record buildings implemented in municipal cadastral documentation The National Reform Program included a measure aimed at improving the cadastral and land registry system and spatial planning through establishing efficient land administration ensuring legal security, encouraging and accelerating the slowed investment processes, improving the real property market and data exchange with all stakeholders. As part of this measure, legislation will be reviewed, digitisation of cadastral and land registry data continued, and work reorganise, with a special emphasis on the functional merger of the existing registers and institutions. In order to establish a legal framework for carrying out the functional merger of cadastral and land registry offices, the State Survey and Real Property Act, the Land Registration Act and other regulations will be reviewed before a plan for the functional merger is adopted in December The functional merger of cadastral and land registry offices within a new institution presumes, in particular, a considerable reduction of the number of procedures, of the duplication of work required by current regulations, and a transfer of certain competences in cadastral and land registry procedures to persons outside these institutions. Establishing the new institution is planned by December 2018, while a physical merger of cadastral and land registry offices is to take place by December Status of key registers 6.1. Is there a regulation regarding the key registers on the national level? 6.2. Registers for which your institution is responsible Who are the key users of registers of your institution? No Key registers on the national level Real property (land) cadastre Spatial Units Register Other registers which our institution is responsible Register of Geographic Names DOF5 DMR Register of Licensed Surveyors Base of topographic maps Permanent Geodetic Points Database Public administration bodies State agencies Public companies Local and regional government units Business entities Citizens 161

162 6.4. Exchange of registers data your institution? 6.5. Do you have a projects for connecting of registers interoperability Public administration bodies send requests in writing, data submitted on portable media, free of charge Local and regional government units and public companies sign agreemens, data submitted on portable media, fee is charged No, we have intentions to connect the main registers, It is part of the e-government strategy 7. Private sector 7.1. Is there a system in place for licensing geodetic surveyors? 7.2. Name of professional organisation in charge for licensing of geodetic surveyors 7.3. For what activities are licences issued 7.4. Number of surveying companies 7.5. Number of licensed geodetic surveyors Yes, the Geodetic Activity Act (OG no.152/08, 61/11 i 56/13) and the Regulations on the Conditions and Criteria for Issuing and Revoking Licences to Perform the Tasks of State Survey and Real Property Cadastre (OG no. 105/07 i 116/07). State Geodetic Administration issues licences for performing professional geodetic tasks, while the Croatian Chamber of Licensed Surveyors keeps a register of licensed surveyors and a register of licensed surveyors professional associates. Licences are issued for performing professional geodetic tasks for land administration needs. Total active: 675 Legal persons: 455 Offices: 145 Self-employed (crafts): 75 Number of licensed surveyors registered with the Croatian Chamber of Licensed Surveyors (geodetic engineers) - HKOIG: Active 840 (source of data: HKOIG) 8. Purpose of the land administration system 8.1. Based on your subjective opinion, highlight the three most important purposes of the land administration system 8.2. Does the land administration system serve taxation purposes; if yes, in what way? 8.3. Is the cadastral map a basis for urban planning? three most important purposes Ownership protection Secure Investments Secure transactions other purposes mortgaging distribution of subsidies taxation of property base for spatial planning development environment protection support of local government statistics Yes, by providing information about real estate and property to local self government and citizens. Yes. Cadastral maps are mandatory in detailed urban planning and make an integral part of any documentation used for the implementation of spatial planning documents. 162

163 9. Land administration Reform program 9.1. Is Land administration reform program exist in your country? Yes. After the successful completion of the Real Property Registration and Cadastre Project (January 2003-June 2010), The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development has continued to support the land administration reform in the Republic of Croatia. The amount borrowed from the Bank for the Integrated Land Administration System (ILAS) Project (November 2011 April 2017) is 16.5 million EUR. Co-financing from the Croatian Government amounts EUR 1.9 million. The Project stakeholders and fund beneficiaries are the MoJ and SGA. The objective of the ILAS Project is to modernize the land administration system in order to improve on the civil service from the point of view of efficiency, transparency and cost. The Key Performance Indicators are: Increased customer satisfaction with land administration services. Reduced transaction processing times in land registry and cadastre Increase percent of customers lodging requests/transactions online Increased use of shared spatial data by government agencies/ ministries The Project includes four components: Component A: The land registration system development focusing on simplifying and automating the land registry system managed by municipal courts. The initially planned activities encompassed scanning and digitization of land registry documents, improvement of the legal framework and additional preparation of the digital data to be migrated into the Real Property Registration and Cadastre Joint Information System (JIS). Component B: Modernization of the spatial information and cadastre system will be aimed at improving the quality and representation of spatial data managed and maintained by SGA and the implementation of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) in line with the EU INSPIRE Directive, support to the SGA in its restructuring, including improvements to business premises in 4 COs, Geoportal improvements and scanning of the cadastral archives. Component C: Improving digital services supports the additional JIS development and the completion of the JIS roll-out to all COs and LROs, migration of the data as well as the training and the public information campaign, institutional capacity building and support to the JIS management structure establishment and its further development; data harmonisation and cadastral map homogenisation. Component D: Project management, training and public awareness campaign support the Project-related training, training programs for the SGA and LRO employees; public awareness campaign and a small PIU. 163

164 9.2. Describe the driving forces for improvement of the land administration system 9.3. Describe the main programs through which reforms are implemented The principal reason is to increase investments (in building) and enable growth of the real property market in a society in transition to market economy. Increased efforts of state to support the resolution of legal and ownership relations, and the general national policy towards an organised society accelerates the improvement of the land administration status. The need for reliable spatial data (especially by those charged with spatial management) significantly contributes to land administration improvement. Integrated Land Administration System (ILAS) Project National program of improving cadastre and land registries on the islands Program of organising agricultural land owned by the RoC Program of improving cadastre and land registries in the Neretva river basin 9.4. List the three most important issues highlighted in the programs 9.5. What is the main approach selected for cadastral upgrading and harmonisation with registration of rights? Establish a status in the registries corresponding to the legal situation on the ground and one harmonised between cadastre and land registries Provide quicker and more efficient services to customers Program e- administration Harmonisation of cadastre and land registries is carried out through sporadic registration, and through systematic land book and cadastre renewal Sporadic harmonisation is based on the interest of the real property owner Systematic renewal is carrid out based on annual and multi-annual programs 10. Country statistics according to the EUROSTAT Population (million) (data from 2014) Area (km 2 ) 56,594 km² Gross national product per capita (euro) 10,177 ( for 2014) Number of parcels Around 14,500, % of parcels in rural areas 61.35% % of parcels in urban areas 38.65% Annual number of parcel changes Annual number of changes in property rights Around 55, ,321 land registry casses in the year Annual number of mortgages Approximately 31,

165 11. LA in supporting to the strategic investments Is there any strategic investment in your country which needs to be supported by LA? Buidling and modernising the second track of the Dugo Selo Križevci railway Modernising the Zaprešić Zabok railway Lowland railway Zagreb Rijeka Building the dr. Franjo Tuđman Airport Buidling the Rijeka Port container terminal - Brajdica Project of registering future motorways Please provide role of your institution and describe the actions and responsibilities in regard to the implementation of the strategic investments In which phase and in which way your institution is involved in strategic projects? What are the biggest problem and obstacle related to LA data needed for successful realization of strategic investment? List the good examples in supporting the strategic investments by your institution in the last few years If there is any unsuccessful strategic project, because of problems related to LA data Providing data from official records Organisation and participation in improving initial data in cases when they do not reflect the situation on the ground in relation to cadastre and the land registry Project planning phase and obtaining necessary documentation Data recording phase for completed projectsa Biggest obstacles are related with long procedures regarding spatial planning process for biggest infrastructure objects. Problem of expropriation and compensation for it Buidling and modernising the second track of the Dugo Selo Križevci railway Modernising the Zaprešić Zabok railway Lowland railway Zagreb Rijeka Building the dr. Franjo Tuđman Airport Buidling the Rijeka Port container terminal - Brajdica N/A 12. The most important improvements in the last year What was the main focus in your institution within the last year? What was the level of realization? What will be your priority in the future? Implementacion of JIS in cadastre offices 31 Dec % cadastral offices May % cadastral offices Improving data quality (Homogenization of cadastral maps), and JIS upgrade and development Establishing the utility cadastre Establishing the cadastre of buildings 165

166 Status of Spatial data infrastructure in the region 1 Does NSDI exist in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Don t know 2 What role does your institution have in the NSDI? a) National Contact Point (NCP) for NSDI b) Only the NSDI subject in the role of data producer. c) NCP and subject (both roles specified in 1. and 2.) d) Undefined role 3 Does your institution have strictly defined NSDI unit? a) Yes b) No 4 Is there a law that defines the NSDI in your country? a) Yes, there is an independent law b) Yes, there is, but as a part of another Act c) No, there isn t 5 If there is a law, does it represent a transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE)? a) Yes, complete transposition b) Yes, but as an incomplete transposition (e.g. 60%) c) No, current law does not represent a transposition of that Directive 6 If transposition of Directive 2007/2/EC is finished, or under progress what is role of your institution? a) Yes, we are involved like responsible institution for INSPIRE transposition b) Yes, we are members of Working group for INSPIRE c) No, our institution is not involved in transposition process 7 According to your information, how many institutions are now actively participating in the establishment of the NSDI in your country? (Active institutions are considered those which deliver the metadata, develop network services, etc.) a) 0-5 b) 5-10 c) d) e) 100 and more 166

167 8 Is there a NSDI Strategy in your country? a) Yes b) No c) Currently under construction 9 Is there a National Metadata Catalogue/National Geoportal in your country? a) Yes b) No 10 Does your institution share information from its jurisdiction through network services? a) Yes b) No 11 What kind of network services does your institution has developed and over which data? a) Discovery network service i. All annexes (Nationall discovers), SGA Discovery for datasets under SGA responsibilty ii. XX iii. XX b) View network service i. Orthoimagery, Geographical names, Topografic map 25 ii. XX iii. XX c) Download network service i. Geographical names ii. XX iii. XX d) Transformation network service i. Coordinate transformation ii. XX iii. XX 12 Have you started harmonization with the requirements arising from Directive 2007/2/EC and for which data? a) Yes; geographical names, spatial data units. b) No. 167

168 Organized by the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia Under the auspicious of the Government of the Republic of Croatia In partnership with IMPULS project DGU