Land administration : institutional arrangements for countries in transition : World Bank experience in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region
Adlington, Gavin
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German influence supports Land Administration in Eastern Europe. $1.25billion has been spent by the World Bank in the Region since 1997. Confederation of Independent States (CIS) land and building records are usually held by separate organisations. Historically in Eastern Europe, there was a tendency for Government to resist the buying and selling of land. A single system has been advocated by the World Bank and others under a single agency model especially as automation develops. At present in many States, the Cadastral Agency has a different ethos to the Registration Department (which is only interested in rightss). Achieving this model is not without its problems. Very often the Cadastral Agency has no access to funds whereas the Registration Agency does from fees payable for registration from land and property owners; also, the different levels of Government react to change in different ways which makes interoperability at the organisational level more difficult to deliver. Some CIS States have not moved forward on reform as yet whilst others have developed the single agency model. Cadastre and Registration should be used to underpin town planning and local authority processes. Lack of progress has resulted in many properties in the Balkans being erected without any formal permission.
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