1. UNECE Working Party on Land Administration SESSION 1: Azerbaijani Experience in Real Estate Registration and Cadastre Reforms Chair: Mr. Damat Baghirov (Head of SSRER under SCPI, the Republic of Azerbaijan) Efficient and Transparent Real Estate and Land Management in ECE Countries 4th – 5th march 2010, Baku, Azerbaijan

2.  Current Situation and Prospects for Real Estate Registration in Azerbaijan by Mr. Sadraddin Jafarov, Deputy Head of SSRER under SCPI

3.  Social and economic reforms carried out in Azerbaijan  Warranty for Property rights

4. State Service for Real Estate Register  Registration on paper and electronic medium  National Registration System  Links with other state bodies

5.  The Unified State Cadastre of Real Estate is the foundation for transparent registration in Azerbaijan by Mr. Ramiz Guliyev, Director of Real Estate Cadastre and Technical Inventory Center of SCPI

6. Major Functions of Cadastre Center  Establishment of the unified state cadastre  Maintenance of mass urban cadastre  Maintenance of address register

7. Problems encountered in the maintenance of the unified cadastre  Legislative gaps  Software related problems  Field Cadastre data are non-standard  No standards for maintenance of unified cadastre system

8.  Implementation of the World Bank’s Real Estate Registration Project in Azerbaijan by Mr. Shahin Panahov, PMU Manager

9.  Duration of the Project: 23.09.2007- 28.02.2013  Amount of the project: 38.5 million USD  World Bank’s loan: 30 million USD  Share of the Government of Azerbaijan: 8.5 million USD

10. Project components  Component A: Real Estate Registration  Component B: State Property Management and Register  Component C: Base mapping and Land Cadastre  Component D: Training, Policy Development and Project Management

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