Unified Land Policy in Latvia

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Unified Land Policy in Latvia

• Edvins Kapostins
• State Land Service of the Republic of Latvia

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Some statistic data about Latvia

• Number of population 2.34 million
• Total area 6.458 million ha
• Agriculture land 38.3
• Forest land 44.5
• Number of owners and land users 616 164
• In ownership 51,9 from the total area of the
  state

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Structure of land ownership
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The goal of land policy is to create political,
legal, social and economical conditions for
securing real properties, formed as a result of
reforms and to raise their value, which at the
same time would facilitate conservation of land
and other resources, continued use and increase
of return.
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Land policy consists of a whole complex of
socio-economic and legal prescriptions that
dictate how the land and the benefits from the
land to be allocated. A balance must be struck
between the exploitation, utilization and
conservation of the land as resource..... (Land
Administration Guidelines.1996)
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Why do we need land policy?

• Insufficient motivation and funding for
  arrangement and registration of real property
• Fragmented structure of property
• Insufficient infrastructure for management of
  property

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Why do we need land policy?

• Land market develops only around big cities
  (uneven development of regions)
• Irreversible changes of land as a resource
• Decrease of rationally usable areas

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Basic principles for the Land policy

• Legal securing of formed real property
• Increasing of real property value
• Conservation of land and other natural resources
• Sustainable land use and increase of its return
• Establishment of unified land administration
  system

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Legal securing of formed real property

• Completion of land reform by keeping initial
  basic principles
• Ensuring of legal indivisibility of land,
  buildings and resources
• Legal securing of borders
• Arrangement of legal relationship between land
  owners and leaseholders

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Increasing of real property value

• Avoid land property fragmentation
• Facilitate consolidation
• Facilitate real property market and availability
  of credits

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Sustainable land use and increase of its return

• Ensuring use of property according to territorial
  planning
• Possibilities to expropriate land for national or
  municipal needs
• Tax policy, which stimulates development
• Rational use of unutilised land areas

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Establishment of uniform land administration
system
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