Analysis and recommendations for improvement: Cadaster registration

On Friday, 12 April at 10h, the Palace of Serbia will host the second round table on the occasion of presenting the legislative analysis and recommendations for improving property registration procedure in the Real Estate Cadaster, and the results achieved so far upon the implementation of the Law on Real Estate and Utility Lines Cadaster Registration Procedure.

The recommendations will be presented by the expert team which performed the analyis, followed by addresses by representatives of line institutions. 

The analysis and recommendations for improvement have been developed within the project for supporting the Real Estate Cadaster reform, supported by the UK Government's Goof Governance Fund and implemented by PwC and NALED together with line institutions. 

The new Law on Law on Real Estate and Utility Lines Cadaster Registration Procedure introduced a one-stop shop system for regitering property via public notaries - eCounter. Starting from 1 July 2018, citizens and businesses no longer engage in direct contact with Republic Geodetic Authority and local tax administration, but perform all tasks, from the point of obtaining the excerpt from property certificate, through verification of purchase agreement to registering ownership right and submitting tax applications, at a single spot - by visiting a public notary, who then performs these tasks electronically with other institutions.
 
The aim of Cadaster reform is to enable easier, faster and safer registration procedure, and establish a precise and detailed records about real estae property in Serbia. The key novelties and benefits for citizens and businesses: 

• The number of procedures and visits to counters has been reduced from six to a single visit to a public notary, who verifies the validity of documentation and the possibility of registration (this used to be performed by the Cadaster);
• The time needed to process the applications has been reduced four or five times, and it takes an average of five days
• Citizens no longer need to obtain excerpts from property certificate and other public records, because the public notary has insight into all data ex officio, electronically and free of charge;
  Property acquired during marriage is not automatically registered as joint property, unless the spouses agree and indicate differently;
  It is now possible to register a building under construction into the Cadaster, thus protecting the buyers' ownership rights from problematic investors;
• Property tax and tax on absolute transfer rights can now be filed via the public notary.