Cadastre and land registry

The Cadastre and land registration knowledge exchange network has the goal of facilitating the exchange of 'best practice' to help members achieve our vision for cadastre and land registration in Europe 2012. Our work supports the decision makers of the EuroGeographics member organisations and other interested parties in creating effective spatial data infrastructures, securing (inter)national land administrations and contributing to sustainable development.

Vision document cadastre and land registration in Europe 2012 (pdf, 316  KB)

Our network focuses on traditional and potential tasks of cadastres and land registries as well as investigating developments that can affect these tasks. Outside of its scope are the land administration activities of land-consolidation, valuation and planning.

Being one of the Knowledge networks, the cadastre and land registry activities within EuroGeographics for the upcoming year are discussed, decided and monitored by a coordinating committee. The network is chaired by Bengt Kjellson (Lantmateriet, Sweden). As a framework for the network's activities the vision document on cadastre and land registration in Europe 2012 is being used. At this stage the following four working groups exist:

Working group: Information Resource

The working group ‘Information Resource’ has continued its activities in 2009. The focus of the group is to gather relevant information of our member organisations in order to make benchmarking possible. The group is chaired by Pekka Halme (National Land Survey, Finland). Currently, the received responses are being analysed, results will be visualised in March 2010. 

Working group: Impact of European legislation on the surveying profession 

Established in 2009, the objective of this joint working group, consisting of members from EuroGeographics, CLGE and GE, is to map the activities of the surveying profession in Europe, taking into account the European legislative developments. Specifically the relation with the Service Directive and the Directive on mutual recognition of professional qualifications is surveyed. By the end of this year the report will contain the main content (describing the legal framework and related practical country cases). The report can be expected at the beginning of 2010. The chair of the group is Daniel Steudler from Swisstopo.

Working group: Land registration

Developments in land registration are monitored by the legal working group, which is a joint initiative between members from EuroGeographics and the European Land Registry Association, ELRA. The chair of the group is Wim Louwman from the Dutch Kadaster. The group’s objective is to inventorise the existing legal systems among our members in relation to existing boundaries. A questionnaire has been disseminated and its results are currently being analysed. Results are to be expected in February 2010.

Working group: The role of Cadastres in INSPIRE

This group is a joint initiative of EuroGeographics and the Permanent Committee on Cadastre (PCC) The group is chaired by Julius Ernst, BEV Austria, and will focus on one or more of the Annex II or III themes of the INSPIRE Directive. It investigates the main characteristics of each selected theme and describes the relation and importance of Cadastres towards them. The results are to be expected at the end of 2010.

Partnerships

The cadastre and land registry network actively supports working in partnership with other organisations and pan-European associations engaged in cadastre and land registry activities including the UNECE WPLA , the PCC, World bank, FIG, EUROGI, ELRA, CLGE, Geometer Europas and CINDER. It is also involved in relevant European projects such as EULIS. In this spirit, membership of the network has been opened up to non-EuroGeographics members.