Land registration as a part of activities in the National Land Survey of Finland
Kokkonen, Arvo
According to the program of Finlandds Prime Minister Matti Vanhanenns second cabinet the efficiency of local courtss activities should be increased and their resourches concentrated on exercise of the law. As the cabinet program states the current IT-system shall be renewed and the land registry activities moved over to the National Land Survey (NLS). From the citizenss and companiess point of view the information service about real properties plays a central role. Both information service and receipt of applications will be centralized in the survey offices that make up a network that covers the whole country. The Land Information System and all the aspects of the real property system as a whole should be taken into close consideration and use the means of the rapidly developing information technology to improve their functions. Development of the Finnish real property system comprises three development projects and their implemetation. The first project deals with administrative transfer of land registry activities from the local courts to the NLS. The second project will renew the land registry part of the LIS and the third project will develop the tools for electronic conveyance of real propery. The steps of implematation also have to follow the order mentioned above. Electronic conveyance, for example, cannot be introduced before the land register part has been renewed. The overhaul has been scheduled to take place on January 1, 2010. The exact date will be dependent on when the necessary changes in legislation will come into force. In the beginning of this year the NLS started a project to take the necessary measures for the transfer of land registry activities and the people now doing the actual work in the courts to the NLS. From customer point of view, centralizing the real property related government services in one organization creates the conditions for actual realization of the one-stop-shop principle. By this action the National Land Survey believes it can offer its customers better and more reliable service with lower fees.
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