News from Permanent Committee on Cadastre in the European Union

• Now in open access for all public consultation, in the "Documents" section , the PCC brochures over the CADASTRAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION.
  

  These documents highlight the main characters of the different Systems, underlining their primary and emerging purposes, information contents, evolution processes, services provided to public and private users, as well as links with the real estate rights registrations systems and the real estate taxation systems.

   The first edition included the description of the Cadastral Systems of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden; the  second one those of Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia and the third edition, the information about Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Denmark, Romania and Portugal.

   PCC wishes that this document can represent an useful tool both for the European Union and for the member Countries institutions, and collaborate to strength the role of cadastre in the national and European policies, by means of an in-depth knowledge of the cadastral system and its future potential.

• Directorate General for Cadastre of Spain, has taken over the Permanent Committee on Cadastre in the European Union (PCC) Presidency for the first half of the year 2010.
  
  
• New Head of Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Agency (GCCA) in Bulgaria. Mr. Alexander Lazarov is the new executive director of GCCA, replacing Mr. Tsveten Boev. Mr. Lazarov has an MSc in Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography. He was until his appointment Manager of the company ‘Geographic Information System – Sofia’ since 1999
  
  
• Cadastre INSPIREd! - A joint working group of EuroGeographics and the Permanent Committee of Cadastre of the EU (PCC) started its work to investigate INSPIRE themes of Annex II and III which are relevant for the cadastre. The objective of the project is to influence the development of the INSPIRE Data specifications and be involved in an early stage of the coming processes for the benefit of members.

  Based on the successful results of the former project "Role of the cadastral parcel in INSPIRE" a survey in the member states and discussions with relevant stakeholders of the European Commission shall provide an input for the forthcoming INSPIRE processes and underpin the cadastral parcel as an essential element in SDI.

• Eurogeographics new president has been elected.
  Mrs Dorine Burmanje, Chair of the Executive Board of Kadaster in the Netherlands was elected as a new President of EuroGeographics during the 2009 General Assembly, which was held 20 - 23 September in Vilnius, Lithuania.
  
  
• CADASTRES CONTRIBUTE TO INSPIRE.
  The Cadastre and Land Registry KEN has approved the establishment of a new working group. This group will consist of
  members from EuroGeographics and the Permanent Committee on Cadastre.
  The aim of the group is to investigate INSPIRE themes which are relevant for cadastres. Currently mentioned themes to be
  investigated are land cover, land use and buildings. The group will be chaired by Julius Ernst from the Federal Office for
  Metrology and Surveying in Austria.
  A first meeting is planned in December 2009.
  
  
• 16-09-2009: JRC INSPIRE Team have published as Guidelines the Cadastral Parcel Data Specifications
   
  
  
• CADASTRAL REPORTS ON THE WEB
  The cadastral brochure activity, that was firstly presented in 2008 meeting in Bled, had  the objective to carry out an official  PCC publication that allows to increase the knowledge on the national cadastral systems within and outside the members of the PCC and  to meet the growing demand of cadastral information from EU institutions. Italian colleagues successfully issued the first part of the brochure covered Austrian, Belgian, Czech, German, Italian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish systems during their presidency. The PCC members can down load the PDF files of the cadastral brochure in the "Members Only" section/Best Practices.

Czech Republic intends to cover the cadastral systems of further six countries – Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia - to be firstly introduced at the joint workshop and PCC Plenary meeting  on 4th and 5th June 2009, in Prague. Their copies will be published on the PCC website afterwards.

• FRANCE: French Land Registry opens access to geo-data.
  
  
• ROMANIA: Mr. Mihai BUSUIOC has taken over as Director General of the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration.
  
  
• 25th and 26th September the PCC Working group on cadastral brochure has celebrated a meeting in Brussels
  The meeting was hold in the central office of the ADMINISTRATION CENTRALE DU CADASTRE, DE L'ENREGISTREMENT ET DES DOMAINES with the aim to discuss issues related to the preparation of the document that will be officially presented in December in Roma.
  
  The cadastral brochure activity, that was presented in the past meeting in Bled, has the objective to, progressively (by groups of Countries), carry out an official PCC publication that allows to increase the knowledge on the national cadastral systems within and outside the Institutions members of the PCC ant to meet the growing demand of cadastral information from EU institutions.

  The structure of the survey is attached as annex 2 pdf.

• Permanent Committee on Cadastre in the European Union and EuroGeographics sign a "Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) within the areas of promotion of the role of cadastre and the exchange of best pratices in cadastre".