WPLA workshop Interconnection of Land Registers in Europe: a threat or an opportunity for EULIS? Vienna, Austria October 2014 Rik Wouters MD EULIS

Topics State of play EULIS Feasibility study interconnection LR’s State of play IMOLA and ELF

State of Play EULIS Priority 1 –interconnection study EU Commission –integration of EULIS-portal in the e-Justice portal Priority 2 –Grant application for support EULIS development –Connection to (potential) members and user groups, more service and visibility –14 EU-members required to be eligible –Now 12 EU-MS (expected 16 in a month) –Now Non-EU-MS (expected 8 in a month) Priority 3 –IMOLA and ELF-project

Integration EULIS and e-Justice -DG Justice decided to have a feasibility study with extended scope: -interconnection of land registers and cadastres in EU -EULIS involved in all stages (ToR, kick off, subgroup meeting in Brussels, report review, etc) -Latest developments: -Report ready for commenting prime stakeholders -September presentation results in the WP e-Justice -October 21 st next WP-meeting for in depth discussions -Meeting EULIS with WP and Commission on Monday 20Oct

Solution assumptions  Respects diversity  Does not interfere with national land register systems  Does not require specific legal provisions  Cross border access to data under national conditions  Limited to provision of on-line searches...for the time being  Consists set of IT services facilitating  getting access to the data  data exchange  data interpretation

Interconnection LR’s Research interconnection between LR’s and Cadastres Comprehensive study (350 pages of text) 3 phases for development: 1.EULIS+ is also pilot (14 countries are positive to join) 2.Extended: authorization/authentication and a-synchronous access 3. Rebuild: accessibility, payment, etc Extensive design of architecture: similar to EULIS Risks: Over-complexity step 2 and 3 Position Non Member States Functional maintenance of portal in future Dialogue with the Commission and WP to discuss report and follow up

Extension of services IMOLA: project funded by DG Justice -Partners ELRA (lead), EULIS, ES, UK, NL, Univ M ’ tricht -Interoperability Model of Land Registries -European Property Certificate -Extension of glossary -Several workshops (Madrid, Athens, Vienna, etc) LEGEO: LEGal status of GEO-information -Initiative EULIS, Univ of Maastricht and Kadaster -Focus on cases where legal and cadastral boundaries give conflicts and differences -Countries considered BE, NL, LU, GE -Extended case book and glossary

Prime goal: European standard property certificate Challenge: legal diversity of the European LR systems -title/deed; property law, privacy law Specific questionnaire to zoom in on these diversity -Funtional and technical part Basic structure: template of the certificate Front page=name of LR, name of applicant, etc Bloc A= Description of property Bloc B= Owner; title, long lease, apartment right Bloc C= Mortgages, encumbrances, restrictions, etc To deal with diversity: Per bloc: fixed fields and standard variable fields Overview IMOLA

Optional: Extended Certificate or Standard Property Report Information certificate + supplementary information: - Other data (sales price, tax values, landuse, etc) - Information from Key Registers (private restrictions) But also documents - Copy of Land Registry folio - Extract of Cadaster Maps - Most recently registered deed - Index of deed registered Property certificate

How does the project work? Layout and content doc A ---- B ---- C ---- Info-modelTemplate Data LR+ WS1 WS2 Attr’s and def’s Glossary+ ELRD application ELRD Search templates+ Software engine etc

Land Registry Registers on parcels, buildings, persons, etc Portal IMOLA: supply ELRD Portal can be: EULIS ELRN  EULIS CROBECO  EULIS e-Justice  EULIS Assistance tool Search engine ELRD Broker ELRD application

Data LR NL EULIS ELRN Search engine Data: ELRD: search engine like ticket finder or google maps Search engine Data LR LT Data LR IR Data LR ES User Assistance tool

Search engine How to find your ticket?

ELF-project: Map entry Search engine

Conclusion Interconnection: A threat or an opportunity for EULIS? Answer: Though EULIS might be integrated in e-Justice we expect a lot from the cooperation with the EU! –More connected countries –Improved platform to cope with diversity –New functionality, new service (Operating grant, IMOLA, ELF, etc, etc)

Thank you for listening!