Title: Fra kartfabrikk til nasjonalt senter for verdiskapende geografisk informasjon
1Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority (NMCA)
- The national supplier and manager of land,
property and geographic information - State enterprise under the Ministry of the
Environment - 12 offices nation-wide
- Annual revenue 2002 NOK 600 million
- 612 staff, - 25 from 2004, growing again to 600
when the land registry is fully taken over from
courts 2004-2007 - Founded 1773
- Covers Norwegian land, coastal and territorial
waters
2Management Tasks and National Professional
Resource
Functions based on law
- Undertaking land registration - The Land Registry
Act - Maintaining the Central Cadaster register
(properties, addresses, buildings and apartments
register) and supervising municipalities doing
cadastral surveys - Administer the Place Name Act
- Maintain and register administrative boundaries
National professional resource
- National and international standardisation
- Co-ordination of mapping and geodetic
activities - Co-operate in research and development
- Support export efforts of Norwegian companies
3Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority
Operating the central cadastre database and
supervising 434 municipalities that are doing
cadastral surveys and data entry to the Cadastre
Director General Knut O. Flåthen
Internal Services
Staff
Business
Geodesy
Topo Mapping
Hydrography
Cadastre and Land Registry
Fylkeskart- kontorene
Fylkeskart- kontorene
Sold out 2004
Fylkeskart- kontorene
18 gt12 County Offices
Establishing one central land registration
office by taking over the land register
function from 87 courts from 2004-2007
4Norway in brief
- 19 counties
- 432 municipalities, all making parcel surveys and
update the Cadastre - 2,5 million properties, e.g. freehold and
leasehold parcels and apartments - Parties can make transaction deeds themselves -
no notaries - However, most transfer deeds prepared by real
estate agents, also handling the payment, and - all mortgagee deeds prepared by the banks
- Rights are established between the parties at
signing of contract, registration is volunteer
but is always done - 150.000 property sales /year
- 450.000 mortgage deeds/year - all housing
financed by loans - Deeds registration fees to the Registry about 300
USD - big surplus to the treasury - Stamp tax on properties 2,5 of the sales value
- Registration time 1-2 days
- State guarantees the correctness of the Land
Register - Reducing from 87 Land Registry offices at the
courts to one single registration office at SK
headquarters 2004-2007
5- The cadastre contains data about parcels,
buildings, apartments and addresses. - Maps not complete - not accurate outside cities
- Boundaries are marked in the field
- The state does not guarantee the correctness of
the cadastre - Norway has special courts - the Land
Consolidation Courts, that handle most disputes
over land rights in an efficient and
cost-effective way. The judge is a specially
educated land surveyor - Land Registry and Cadastre are computerised since
1980 - digital maps under establishment - Data from the Land Registry and Cadastre combined
in a one-stop service to users operated by a
separate state owned company - 30.000 terminal
users - Register of companies, accounts etc at
Brønnøysund providing on-line registration - Land Register and cadastre check automatically
names and addresses with register of people and
register of companies
6Big differences
WB Doing Business 2004
7WB Doing Business 2004
8Property Information A National Land Information
System
Norway Land Information Ltd (state owned company)
Integrated Distribution System
Cadastre
Land Register
Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority
Plan information
Property information system
Municipalities
Municipalities
Clients
Clients
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12Role of the NMCA in development
- Demonstrating best practises
- still potential for improvements
- Managing Norwegian funded projects
- financed by the MFA and Norad
- Lending experts to NGOs and companies doing land
administration projects - Establishing a Centre for property rights and
development - Assisting MFA and Norad on development issues
- Establishing a network to include Norwegian
resources in development projects - Co-operating with ILD and others
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14The Norwegian Prime Minister on 3rd May 2004 A
NEW AGENDA in fighting poverty Lack of
security of tenure has big negative consequences
for the individual poor as well as for entire
societies. To reach the UN goal of halving the
number of people living in extreme poverty by
2015 we must address this issue. Establishing
good property systems that are accessible for all
will be a cornerstone in Norwegian foreign aid
15Engaging in the entire register infrastructure
for capital formation
Objects
More types ?
Rights
Transactions
Private persons - register of people Companies
- company registers
Private rights Public restrictions
Persons
Banking
Money