The land cadastral restrictions information system in Estonia Mr. Priit Kuus Department of Land Cadastre + priit.kuus@maaamet.ee ( +372 675 0843 Moscow 2011

Restrictions: legal grounds The Constitution of the Republic of Estonia article 32 Everyone has the right to freely possess, use, and dispose of his or her property Property shall not be used contrary to the public interest Restrictions shall be provided by law 1

Restrictions: legal grounds Law of Property Act article 140 to 141 A restriction pursuant to law is valid without entry in the land register Land Cadastre Act article 12 The cadastral registrar shall enter the location of objects which give rise to restrictions on the restrictions map 2

Restrictions: legal grounds REAL RIGHTS Ownership Restricted real rights Restriction in public law Right of ownership Servitudes Environmental Real encumbrances Water protection Right of pre-emption Utility networks Right of security State facilities LAND REGISTER LAND CADASTRE 3

Restrictions: legal grounds Objects which gives rise to restrictions are which: gives rise to restriction zone (42 different zones) can spatially identified (X,Y,Z) 21 public law acts give rise to restrictions. 100 features what must be collected. 4

Restrictions: legal grounds Restrictions data use in cadastre Owner of an object Cadastre plan LAND CADASTRE Surveyng & mapping Land surveyor RIS Other state register Assignment Formation of the cadastral unit Ascertainment of restrictions 5

Restrictions: legal grounds Restrictions data use in cadastre Import to RIS Owner of an object Cadastre plan Order an ascertainment Control of location of objects LAND CADASTRE Surveyng & mapping Land surveyor RIS Determination of location of objects Other state register Assignment Formation of the cadastral unit Ascertainment of restrictions Import to RIS Sumbmit the objects data 6

Restrictions statistics Exchange of data between: 7 different state registers 23 different utility network corporations There are registered: Over 53 thousand km2 polygon objects in total area Over 116 thousand km line objects in total length Over 100 thousand point objects Restriction zones are covered: About 87% of cadastral units Estonian Republic Area: 45 227 km² 7

Restriction zone statistics State essential facilities: 13% of land Cultural heritage, mining, planning protections… 8

Restriction zone statistics Technical facilities: 6% of land Utility networks, roads, railway, airports… 9

Restriction zone statistics Water protections: 37% of land Water, water intakes, land improvement … 10

Restriction zone statistics Protected natural objects: 26% of land Environmental protected areas, species, fossils, minerals, environmental monitoring … 11

Restrictions Information System (RIS) Main principles of the RIS are: Able to collect restriction object data from different sources Generate and renew restriction zone according to valid law Spatially relate restriction objects and zones to cadastral unit Able easy data exchange and represent for interested persons 12

Restrictions Information System (RIS) Center of rules ADMINISTRATION APPLICATION OBJECT SETTINGS ZONE DIFFERENCES RESTR. ZONE SETTINGS SOURCE SETTINGS GENERATOR SETTINGS OUTPUT APPLICATION DATA EXCHANGE APPLICATION REPORTS OBJECT EDITING OBJECT IMPORT PLANS OBJECT EXPORT ANALYSIS Presenting object and restrictions Registering objects in the cadastre X-ROAD OTHER STATE DATABASES 13

Restrictions Information System (RIS) RIS interface acceptable data exchange formats: GIS data formats in direct import : GML ESRI Mapping Software Shape File SHP MapInfo Table TAB, MAP, ID, DAT CAD data mast be transfomed, restructure and attributed through the transformation process 14

Restrictions: Web map service Web based restriction map is public: http://geoportaal.maaamet.ee Land board geoportal restrictions WMS: Able to search cadastral unit Able to search restriction object Able to print A4 and A3 paper formats with scale Able to save prints in pdf Able to directly link to searches: Link1 Link2 Link3 … 15

Why Why such the distinctive system is a good?  Keep clean land register of recurrent restricted real rights (Restrictions are provided by law) To pre-empt legal conflicts at ownership interest (Spatially presented restrictions are better perceptible) To give better base data for regional planning (All data from one base) To support fair land taxation (Fair taxation – good mood) Thank you! FINISH 