ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEMATIC CADASTRAL RESURVEY AND LAND BOOK RENEWAL IN CROATIA

1. ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEMATIC CADASTRAL RESURVEY AND LAND BOOK RENEWAL IN CROATIA DAMIR PAHIĆ, STATE GEODETIC ADMINISTRATION, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

2. REGISTRATION SYSTEM • Real estate cadastre (location, shape, area, land use, constructions and cadastral number) • Land book (owners and holders of other real property rights, ownership, servitudes, construction rights, mortgages, concessions, long term leases etc. ) • Real estate cadastre - state administration – SGA cadastral offices (112) • Land book - municipal courts

3. REGISTRATION SYSTEM • 3 300 cadastral registration units - cadastral municipalities (CM) • 57000 detail sheets of cadastral maps • text data bases for all cadastral municipalities • 20 million land parcels according to existing cadastral records • 56 542 square kilometers • 4,5 million inhabitants

4. SYSTEMATIC CADASTRAL RESURVEY AND LAND BOOK RENEWAL • Legal frame • The Law about State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre • The Law about Land Books • Technical instruction and standards • Why systematic cadastral resurvey? • Systematic cadastral resurvey is too expensive?

5. SYSTEMATIC CADASTRAL RESURVEY AND LAND BOOK RENEWAL IS TOO EXPENSIVE ? • Defined goals (oriented to customers) • Legislative • Programmes • Public awareness campaign • Organization of processes • Trained people (civil servants, private companies) • Good results

6. ORGANIZATION AND FINANCAL SOURCES • Ministry of Justice – necessary approvals • State Geodetic Administration (SGA), central office - organization of cadastral resurvey process, public tenders for private licensed geodetic companies, financial sources (state budget) for cadastral resurvey (25%) • Public enterprises - financial sources (15%) • Counties - financial sources (5%) • Towns and municipalities - financial sources (55%), decision about owners participation in financing

7. AGREEMENT ABOUT CADASTRAL RESURVEY AND LAND BOOK RENEWAL • Clearly defined interests and responsibilities • Defined procurement rules • Benefits to those who will participate in financing (usage of data that will be produced) • Products they will receive (cadastral maps, DOP, DTM, other data) • Estimated price (average price in last three years) • (AREEMENT IS SIGNED)

8. PUBLIC PROCUREMENT • Defined by the Public Procurement Act • Coo financiers has equal rights in evolution of bids • (PRIVATE LICENSED GEODETIC COMPANY HAS CONTRACT FOR CADASTRAL RESURVEY)

9. SYSTEMATIC RESURVEYAND DATA COLLECTION • Private licensed geodetic companies – establishment of new cadastral maps and data collection • Owners – obligations in process of plot delimitation on the ground, have to present documents about rights on land • Public enterprises responsible for state land, for railroads, waters etc. • State Geodetic Administration, central office, and local offices - supervision of cadastral resurvey process

10. INFORMING CITIZENS ABOUT THE CADASTRAL RESURVEY • Official announcement in the Official Gazette (SGA) • the contractor is obligated to set the signs to mark the area on the main road entrances • in agreement with the cadastral office, the contractor is obligated to: • organize meetings in all local self-government units where owners persons will be informed about the survey procedure • organize a meeting with the authorized persons managing public property and managers of the land owned by the state and the units of local self-government • announce the works on cadastral survey in local newspapers and on local radio station • secure that citizens and others can purchase necessary boundary marks • (CADASTRAL RESURVEY IS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED)

11. MARKING OF BOUNDARIES WITH VISIBLE PERMANENT MARKS • the types of boundary marks (concrete pillars, plastic boundary marks etc.) and the areas where a certain type is determined in agreement with the cadastral office • in cooperation with the cadastral office, the contractor produces a plan of marking the boundaries • invitations for marking of boundaries are delivered to the owners by the cadastral office through the contractor, and the invitation contain the place where marks can be purchased • the owners and other authorized persons are obligated to mark the boundaries, and the contractor provides professional help during the marking • the contractor produces the sketch of marked boundaries which serves for supervision purposes • (BOUDARIES ARE MARKED)

12. GEODEIC SURVEY, PRODUCTION OF CADASTRAL MAPS, AND TEXT DATA • Geodetic survey in the field • Collection of other necessary data • Production of digital cadastral map • Production of property holders lists • Technical report about resurvey process • (CADASTRAL RESURVEY AND ADEQUATE TECHNICAL REPORT IS FINISHED)

13. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIVE AND COURT PROCEDURE • Each owner has to participate in simultaneous administrative and court procedure • Ministry of Justice – financial sources for court procedure, organization of court procedure • State Geodetic Administration, central office - financial sources for local or branch office procedure, organization of procedure • Towns and municipalities – office in resurvey area • State Geodetic Administration, local or branch office – public inventory of cadastral resurvey data in administrative procedure, book of complaints, field supervision upon each complaint • Municipal court – establishment of new land book, certificates for each owner

14. NEW CADASTRE AND LAND BOOK IS ESTABLISHED • Official announcement in the Official Gazette • New cadastre and land book is official • State guarantee for data in registers • Third persons are legally protected if they act according to cadastral and land book data in legal transfer of real estates • Security in legal transfer of real estates

15. STATE PROGRAMMES FOR CADASTRAL RESURVEY • State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre Programme introduced by Croatian Parliament • Government Programme for Cadastral and Land Book Renewal on Islands • Government Programme for Cadastral and Land Book Renewal in Valley of Neretva

16. CADASTRAL RESURVEYS - INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS • Cadastral resurveys as a part of technical cooperation • CM of Bakar, Bakarac and Kraljevica (Bakar bay) with Nederland’s Kadaster – the first international project • CM of Labin and Šolta with Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) – cadastral resurveys as a part of other projects (urban planning, communal information system) • CM of Babina Greda with Nederland’s Kadaster – the first renewed cadastre of real estates and the first renewed land book according to new legislative • CM of Slivno with GTZ – testing new technologies in cadastral resurvey • CM of Kornati with Statens Kartverk – a part of establishment of GIS for National Park of Kornati

17. WORLD BANK LOAN • Systematic cadastral resurvey and land book renewal is a part of REAL PROPERTY REGISTRATION AND CADASTRE PROJECT financed from World Bank Loan No. –HR-4674 • 20 locations (cadastral municipalities) - the first faze • NCB - announced

18. OTHER ACTIVITIES • Systematic production of digital terrain model (DTM) and digital orthophoto (DOP) • Transformation of all existing cadastral maps in raster format • Transformation of cadastral maps in vector format for those cadastral municipalities for which cadastral resurvey for whole unit is not necessary • Comparison of vector cadastral map with cadastral text data base

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