Work Plan 2007-2010
Commission 7
Original work plan in .pdf-format.
Title
Cadastre and Land Management
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Mr. Andras Ossko, Chairperson of Commission 7 |
Mission
- To provide a forum for enhancing and exchanging knowledge about
cadastre, land administration and land management world wide;
- To encourage the development of pro poor land management and land
administration;
- To promote the importance of development of sustainable land
administration as infrastructure for sustainable development to underpin
economic growth;
- To promote the application of innovative and advanced technology in
cadastre, land administration;
- To promote awareness of the role of surveyors in land administration
matters to the public and among stake holders.
Terms of reference
Until today many countries have developed their own cadastral system, in many
cases with colonial roots. The one operates deed registration, the other title
registration, some are based on fixed boundaries, some on general boundaries,
some systems are centralised and others decentralised. Many systems do not
perform optimally or failed to perform in a way that benefits all of the people.
Looking at it from a little distance one can observe that the systems are in
principle mainly the same: they are all based on the relationship between
persons and land, via rights and are in most countries influenced by
developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The two main
functions of every cadastral system are: 1. Keeping the contents of these
relationships up-to-date (based on legal or customary transactions) in a
cadastral or land registration system and 2. Providing information on these
registrations.
Commission 7 deals with land administration; “the process of determining,
recording and disseminating information about the ownership, value and use of
land when implementing land management policies” (ref. UNECE Land Administration
Guidelines 1996).
“Ownership” should be seen as a broad concept of land tenure within various
jurisdictions (statutory, customary, informal, etc.) “Land” includes
constructions at subsurface level, ground level and above land level (e.g.
buildings).
Furthermore Commission 7 deals with land management, which is the
implementation of land policy, by a wide range of land policy instruments (e.g.
land reform, land consolidation, land markets, land taxation, marine resource
management).
In terms of “key words” Commission 7 deals with:
- land management and land administration
- cadastres, land registers
- cadastral reform
- land policy, land reform, land taxation
- land tenure
- land law and land related laws
- sustainable land administration
- pro poor land management and land administration
- cadastral surveying and mapping
- land registration
- land administration in post conflict areas
- disaster management and land administration
- customary and group rights
- informal settlements
- public private partnership in land administration
- land policy and land policy instruments
- land consolidation
- land valuation and taxation
- land markets
- land reform, land privatisation and land redistribution
- innovative technology in land administration
- low cost surveying and mapping
- land and marine resource management
General
Preface
Commission 7 established its concept of activities about 15 years ago. It is
in line with the FIG long term professional strategy and selected key topics to
deal with:
- advanced cadastre
- developing land administration
- creating secure land tenure
- application of innovative, advance technology in land administration
All topics are related to land administration matters. Developing,
modernising land administration has been an increasing demand by developed and
developing countries worldwide for many years.
During the last decade many new challenges have appeared – increasing focus
on sustainable development, post conflict problems (civil wars, tribal
conflicts, etc.) increasing number of disasters, increasing gap between
developed and developing world, rapid urbanisation in the developing world, etc.
All of the above challenges connected to land and property related activities.
The profession has to find answer and solutions.
Several of the above challenges are being handled by existing cadastral, land
management and land administration institutions, some of the existing
institutions have not adapted to the challenges or been developed in an adequate
manner. In bringing solutions to the 21st. Centuries’ land and property related
challenges, Commission 7 therefore believes that a future oriented focus from
the surveying profession is essential. The surveying profession must play an
ever central role in the development and modernisation of cadastre, land
management and land administration. The ultimate goal is to make land
administration the proper infrastructure for sustainable development and to make
land administration institutions develop sustainable solutions through land
related activities.
Achieving the Commission 7 concept and goals will continue to involve efforts
over a long period; therefore the Commission wants to continue its professional
work, which was successful over the passed years. Of course there needs to be
some changes and new priorities have to be defined based on the last four years
experience.
Following the overall FIG strategy, Commission 7 intends to:
- Continue its effort focusing on countries in Africa, Latin America,
Asia, Middle East, CEE and providing a meeting place as well;
- Strengthen working relations cooperation with other FIG Commissions;
- Continue cooperation with UN Organisations and Agencies;
- Find possibilities to cooperate with other professional organisations,
NGOs, Dutch Cadastre, ITC, etc;
- Provide and disseminate information to the profession, national
associations and authorities to develop and establish land administration
systems;
- Support the needs in different regions.
Commission 7 Work Plan in Relation to FIG Professional Strategy
Following Commission 7 tradition the work plan will support the achievement
of FIG goals:
- Extending working cooperation with other commissions;
- to continue and extension of working relation with UN organisations,
World Bank, agencies and other organisations;
- to contribute to organise joint workshops, events wit UN and other
external organisations;
- to contribute to formulate the professional program for FIG congresses
and working weeks;
- supporting regional events, workshops to promote FIG activities in
general and new priorities of the surveyor profession;
- to encourage national delegates, representatives to participate in FIG
events and disseminate information to national associations and
professionals;
- to support the publication of working results;
- following the traditions, Commission 7 contribute to the major FIG
events, congresses, working weeks;
- to encourage member associations and national delegates from Asia,
Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe to participate in Commission 7 and
major FIG events.
Objectives
There are many fields of interest for Commission 7 related to land
administration, Cadastre and land management matters. To achieve realistic
results in the 2007-2010 period we have to prioritise the most important issues
based on the Commission 7 activities during the past years, recent developments,
challenges concerning land related matters world wide and priorities supported
by UN and other professional organisations and NGOs.
As a new development in FIG activity, Commission 7 intends to find
possibilities to form working relation with the UN Habitat Global Land Tool
Network, GLTN.
Important issues selected:
- Pro poor land management and land administration
- land administration and land management in customary and informal areas
- low cost data acquisition (geometric, legal) registration and mapping
- low cost, innovative tools for land management and land administration
- Sustainable land administration supporting good governance
- how can we develop sustainable land administration in so-called developing
countries within a
framework of land policies
- how can we keep sustainability of land administration in so called
developed countries
- Land administration in post conflict areas
- how is possible to create, rebuild land administration after conflicts
- approaches in redistribution of land in post conflict areas
- Disaster management and land administration
- relation between land administration and disaster management
- Economic land use and land use control
- supporting how to create economic land use
- how to manage land use and informal urbanisation in developing countries
- Land administration and land management in the marine environment
- how to develop marine cadastre
- how to support coastal zone management
- Innovative technology and ICT support in land administration and land
management
- how to extend land administration with 3D cadastre and land registry
- how to develop innovative, low cost technology to support pro poor land
management and land
administration
- national and international data infrastructure initiatives
- ICT support to develop sustainable land administration (standardisation,
interoperable systems
- sustainable capacity building for land administration
- Institutional aspects for land administration and land management
- how to the support the development of institutional framework for land
administration, land
management
Commission 7 intends to address the selected issues in various ways within
FIG and in cooperation with other organisations:
- Commission 7 working groups
- Presenting papers, lectures during FIG and joint events
- Working cooperation with other FIG commissions
- Working relation with UN and other organisations
- Providing a documentation centre OICRF
Working Group 7.1 - Development of Pro Poor Land Management and
Land Administration
Terms of reference
- recognise and support the development of pro poor land management
approaches
- communicate, as far as possible, the FIG concepts in development of land
policy and land management: land law, land tenure and security of tenure,
land markets, land taxation, land use planning, land reform, land
redistribution, post conflict land administration
- identify (geometric) aspects related to social, informal land tenures
- support the development of low cost, innovative, data acquisition methods
- develop the social tenure domain model
- contribute to the UN Habitat Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
- propose a capacity building approach for pro poor land management
Chair
Working Group 7.2 – Land Administration to
Support
Sustainable Development
Terms of reference
- investigate the necessary legal and institutional framework for the
creation and development of sustainable development
- identify other conditions for developing sustainable land administration
- study solutions for developing land administration in post conflict
areas
- find simple, low cost solutions for creating sustainable land
administration in developing countries
- investigate improvements of land tenure security through new legal
frameworks and new and better administrative tools
- focus on solutions to combine formal land delivery process and customary
approaches (neo-customary) land delivery process
- study the role of gender-issues in creation of sustainable land
administration development
- analyse sensible forms of land taxation for funding land reform and
upgrading programmes
- identify and find solutions of assisting post conflict areas, disaster
areas, etc. in rebuilding and maintain land administration after war and
catastrophe of nature
Chair
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Mr. Sřren F. Christensen
KMS
DENMARK
E-mail: sfc@kms.dk |
Working group 7.3 – Application of Innovative Technology in Land
Administration
Terms of reference
- electronic conveyance and governance
- identify innovative and low cost technology to support the development
for pro poor land management, land administration
- identify innovative, advance technology for sustainable land
administration
- dealing with standards
- focus on copyright and fee questions
- dealing with identification and defining parcel boundaries
- focus on national and international data infrastructure initiatives
(SDI, INSPIRE)
- 3D cadastre, land registry
Chair
Co-operation with other FIG commissions
- 3D Cadastre , land registry joint working group with Commission 3
- Coastal zone management, marine cadastre with Commission 4 and 8
- Low cost, effective survey technology and techniques for developing
countries, with Commission 5
- Urban- rural inter relationships, defining formal and informal tenure,
property rights, joint working group with Commission 8 lead by Commission 8
- Education, capacity building with Commission 2
- Commission 9 formed Working Group 9.2 “Improving Slum Conditions through
Innovative Financing.” As an FIG issue Commissions 3, 7, 8, 10 will
participate in the work. Within Commission 7 Working Group 7.1 is
responsible for the topic, Tommy Österberg is the Commission 7
representative.
Co-operation with UN organisations, agencies
Commission 7 will continue cooperation with UN organisations, including
UN-Habitat, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN FAO) and the UN Economic
Commission for Europe’s Working Party on Land Administration (UNECE/WPLA).
Co-operation with other Professional Organisations
Commission 7 will work in co-operation with the Dutch Cadastre, ITC and
Institution of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI).
Communications
The secretariat of the commission will maintain the Commission 7 web site and
keep delegates, correspondents, friends informed primarily via e-mail.
Commission 7 annual meetings and events
According to the consensus among the commission delegates to hold annual
meetings separately from the major FIG events, Commission 7 intends to continue
its traditions for organising annual meetings. Until now Korea will host the
annual meeting in 2007, and Verona, Italy in 2008.
Calendar of Events
2007
- Commission 7 Annual Meeting, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 19-23 May 2007
- FIG Working Week 2007, Hong Kong SAR, China, 13-17 May 2007
- Contribution to GeoCongress Quebec 2007, Quebec City, Canada, 2-5
October 2007
- FIG Regional Conference, San José, Costa Rica, 12-15 November 2007
2008
- Commission 7 annual meeting Verona, Italy
- FIG Working Week, Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June 2008
2009
- Commission 7 annual meeting
- FIG Working Week, Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009
2010
- Commission 7 annual meeting
- FIG Congress Sydney, Australia, 9-16 April 2010
Commission Officers
Commission Chair
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Mr. András Ossko
Fővárosi Földhivatal
(Budapest Land Office)
Sas U 19
H-1051 Budapest
HUNGARY
Tel. + 36 1 354 2967
Fax + 36 1 354 2952
E-mail:
foldmeresv@foldhjiv.hu |
Vice Chair of Administration
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Commission Secretariat:
Mr. Gyula Iván, Vice Chair of
Administration
Secretary of the Commission
E-mail: ivan.gyula@fomi.hu
Tel. + 36 1 460 4081
FIG Commission 7 Secretariat
c/o Institute of Geodesy Cartography and Remote
Sensing
1592 Budapest Pf. 585
HUNGARY
Tel. + 36 1 222 5101
Fax + 36 1 222 5112 |
Mrs. Mária Tóth
Assistant
E-mail: Maria.Toth@fvm.hu
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 7.1 -
Development of Pro Poor Land Management and Land Administration
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Mr. Christiaan Lemmen
Cadastre and Public Registers Agency
P.O. Box 9046
NL-7300 GH Apeldoorn
THE NETHERLANDS
Visiting address: Jean Monnetpark 1, 7336 BA Apeldoorn
Tel. + 31 55 528 5634
Fax + 31 55 355 7362
E-mail: lemmen@itc.nl |
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 7.2 -
Development Sustainable Land Administration to Support Sustainable Development
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Mr. Sřren Fauerholm Christensen
National Survey and Cadastre Denmark
Rentemestervej 8
DK-2200 Copenhagen NV
DENMARK
Tel. + 45 3587 5616
Fax + 45 3587 5050
E-mail: sfc@kms.dk |
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 7.3 -
Application of Innovative Technology in Land Administration
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Dr. Daniel Steudler
Eidg. Vermesssungsdirektion
Swiss Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying
Seftigenstrasse 264
CH-3084 Wabern
SWITZERLAND
Tel. + 41 31 963 2413
Fax + 41 31 963 2297
E-mail: Daniel.Steudler@swisstopo.ch |
14 March 2007 |
