"Public Access to Land Administration Data – The Case of Georgia" 23-24 April, 2009 UNECE WPLA, SOFIA, BULGARIA National Agency of Public Registry Ministry of Justice of Georgia "Public Access to Land Administration Data – The Case of Georgia" Ekaterina Meskhidze Nino Bakhia

NATIONAL AGENCY OF PUBLIC REGISTRY Legal entity of public law under the subordination of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, operating on self-financing principle Established on the basis of the Law of Georgia on State Registry, adopted on June 1, 2004

THE FUNCTIONS OF NAPR Maintenance of the Registry of the Immovable Property Rights, Lien Registry and the Tax Lien/Hypothec Registry Recording of the cadastre data on immovable property Registration of pledge on movable things Ensuring accessibility to the data concerning registered rights and right identification documents

Law on National Agency of Public Registry, Article 6 Data registered at NAPR and documents stored at registration offices are public and have free access, except for the cases prescribed by Georgian legislation Administrative Code, Article 10 All have access to get public information stored at administrative body as well as to get copies of them, except for the information containing state, official of personal secret

Software Development Electronic Book for Registration of Applications and Rights –ensures getting information from immovable property registry Cadastral Data – provides access to the cadastral database to have a view of graphical information Software for the BTI Archive – ensures simplified way of getting information or documents proving of ownership, which should be further presented to make initial registration of immovable property unit at NAPR Lien and Tax Lien/hypothec Registry – ensures simplified way of getting necessary document or just to observe existence of lien or tax lien/hypothec note

Electronic Book for Registration of Applications and Rights

Simplified Procedure to Get Public Information Registered at NAPR customer Authorized Users NAPR front office desk www.napr.gov.ge financial institutions Notaries Public and private organizations Surveyors’ company Broker’ s companies

Electronic Book for Registration of Applications and Rights

Information Publicity Submitting of Application information registered www.napr.gov.ge Back office clerk preparing extract reflecting public information registered at NAPR

Lien and Tax Lien/Hypothec Registry – Application Software Ensures submitting online application to get document proving existence/or nonexistence of Lien and/or Tax Lien/Hypothec on a certain property

Lien and Tax Lien/Hypothec Registry Database Ensures information access to Lien and Tax Lien/ Hypothec Registry free of charge

BTI Archive Registry

Preparation/Systematization of Cadastral Information www.NAPR.gov.ge Physical person Registration office SDE server Registration office ARCGIS Interested Person Authorized user Cadastral Office NAPRWEB NAPRWEB Interested Person Registration Office Authorized user Bank PDF server Bank Notary Information is handed over Information is submitted via internet Information is submitted via intranet 13

PDF SDE server server 14 www.NAPR.gov.ge www.NAPR.gov.ge Preparation/Systematization of Cadastral Information Registration office/ Authorized user www.NAPR.gov.ge www.NAPR.gov.ge Interested person NAPRWEB CADASTRAL MAP INTERNET Registrars of registration offices Cadastral specialists PDF server SDE server INTRANET INTRANET NAPR 2008 14

Districts Covered by Centralized Cadastre

Cadastral Map of Tbilisi

Public Access to Cadastral data Submitting online application to get the cadastral plan

Web-Based Software Introduced in Territorial Registration Offices Total Number of TROs 68 NAPR web 60 NAPRLMR 20 NAPRTECH 25 Cadastral Map 1

APPLICATION STATISTICS 2008 year Applications for documents proving existence/non-existence of lien or tax lien/hypothec registry Online application submitted by customer 60 application submitted at the NAPR front office 24 368 Applications to get information from former BTI Online application submitted by customer 350 application submitted to the NAPR front office 31 961

Document Flow Management

LINKS TO OTHER DATABASES TO GET OR VERIFY DATA NOTARY BUSINESS REGISTRY CIVIL REGISTRY AGENCY

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