Transferring the land registration from the local courts to the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority in Norway

Frostrup, Anne Cathrine

The Norwegian Parliament decided in June 2002 to transfer the Land Registry from 87 Land Courts to Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority head office at HHnefoss. The transfer started in 2003 and was finished in 2007. This was a huge task. The staff employed at HHnefoss within the Land Registry increased in this period from two persons to a staff of 270. A lot of documents and archives had to be transported from all over Norway to HHnefoss. The registry kept on continuously and the transfer was done one court by one, each of them during one week-end. It was a tremendous challenge to recruit and establish the necessary competence and a big training program was carried through in parallel to the day to day work. We succeeded with our task in time and within the budgets, but there is still a demand for being more efficient and to change to a complete e-registration system. This is our challenge on to the end of 2010.

Event: FIG Working Week 2008 : Integrating Generations and FIG/UN-HABITAT Seminar : Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing

Document type:Transferring the land registration from the local courts to the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority in Norway (43 kB - pdf)