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Working Party on Land Administration WPLA

• Progress Report
• Secretary Generals Meeting
• Innsbruck, 30 November/01 December 2001
• Peter Creuzer

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History

• 1993 Discussions on a possible European
  Organisation for Land Registers and Cadastres,
  initiative launched by UNECE
• Workshops on different problems of Land
  Administration under the auspices of UNECE
• 1996 UN ECE Meeting of Experts on Land
  Registration in Geneva (26 27 February)

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History II

• 1996 UNECE Land Administration Guidelines
  published
• New name Meeting of Officials on Land
  Administration (UNECE MOLA)
• 1999 MOLA was granted standing character by
  UNECE, since then
• Working Party on Land Administration (UNECE WPLA)

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UNECE Working Party on Land Administration
(WPLA)- Aims

• Improvement and promotion of land administration
  issues in the ECE region
• Assistance to Committee on Human Settlements
• Focus on privatisation through security of tenure
  and establishment of real estate markets in
  countries in transition and facilitation of the
  European integration processes
• Forum for cooperation and exchange of experience
  of senior officials within the ECE region

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UNECE WPLA-Areas of Work

• Land Management Legislation
• Land Administration Measures
• Land Information Systems
• Organisational and Management Issues
• Cooperation with other governmental organisations
  and NGO

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Practical Work
Studies
Workshops
Missions
Publications
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Studies

• Inventory of Land Administration Systems in
  Europe and North America
• Key Aspects of Land Registration and Cadastral
  Legislation
• Land (Real Estate) Mass Valuation Systems for
  Taxation Purposes in Europe
• International land administration projects in
  Europe

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Inventory of Land Administration Systems in
Europe and North America

• 3rd edition provides information on 41 ECE
  countries (49 jurisdictions)
• Includes organisation and government
  responsibility, land and title registration,
  cadastral and topographical mapping systems, land
  valuation, land use recording systems
• Provides details of responsible departments,
  contact names, addresses, telephone/fax numbers,
  email-addresses, web sites

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Study on Key Aspects of Land Registration and
Cadastral Legislation

• compilation of key aspects of the principal
  legislation that governs cadastre and land
  registration across ECE countries
• 12 topics, e.g. constitution and legislation,
  institutional responsibilities, statutory powers,
  procedures for registration, freedom of
  information, survey, mapping, fees, financing,
  ...
• Report published in May 2000

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Land (Real Estate) Mass Valuation Systems for
Taxation Purposes in Europe

• Organisational and legal aspects
• Methodological aspects
• Land (real estate) tax systems
• Report published in November 2001

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Workshops

• Purpose meeting place, discussion forum
• Evaluation of the status of land administration
  of a specific country, recommendations
• Evaluation of special areas of interest (e.g.
  land register, cadastre, role of the private
  sector, legal and technical issues, ...)

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Recently held Workshops

• 1999 Bonn Workshop on Modern Cadastre and Land
  Registration Systems
• 1999 London Managing and Developing Effective
  Land Registration and Cadastral Services
• 2000 Tirana Public Institution/Private Sector
  Relationships in the Establishment of Land
  Registration Systems
• 2000 Madrid Security Mechanisms in the creation
  of real property markets ...
• 2001 Gävle EU accession from a land
  administration perspective
• 2001 Yerevan Sustainability of real property
  markets

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Land Administration Reviews

• Promotion of expert missions on request of
  individual countries
• 3 pilot missions carried out Albania, Armenia,
  Georgia

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Objectives

• Assistance to country under review in assessment
  of current state and performance of the land
  administration system
• Promotion of improvements in land administration
  and relevant policies
• Support of intergovernmental institutions and
  donor agencies in decision-making

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Draft Workplan 2001-2004

• Situation and Trends in Land Administration in
  the ECE region
• Survey on restrictions on the ownership, leasing
  and transfer of real property in ECE-countries
• Workshop on Mass Valuation in Moscow, June 2002
• Workshop in Vienna in autumn 2002
• Study on land administration objects and their
  identifiers (proposed)
• Guidelines on public access to data
• LAR to be continued

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