• Report on "Key Aspects of Land Registration and Cadastral Legislation" Part I (961 kb)
• Report ... Part II (1.051 kb)
• Inventory of Land Administration Systems in Europe and North America (896 kb)  (as of april 1998)

• Preface 3
• A list of the 36 Countries (and 43 jurisdictions)
• responding to the questionnaire 5
• Topics covered in the study and the Key definitions 7
• A commentary on the results of the study 9
• Snapshots from country responses
• Graphic summaries of key questions 35
• Contact addresses of those responding 37
• Contact addresses of UNECE WPLA Bureau officials 45
• Annex 1: Indicating country answers categorised by individual question 47

The inventory has the following content

Part 1 . Land and land administration

1. Introduction
2. Summary of Responses
3. Section A Organisation and Government Responsibility (Names, Addresses, Telephone, Fax and Email)
4. Questionnaire

Part 2 .

5. Section B Land and Title Registration
6. Section C National Topographical Survey of physical ground features and recording of area of parcel boundaries
7. Section D Valuation of Land

Part 3 .

8. Section E Record and determination of Land Use and classification of Attributes
9. Section F Current and future development projects
10. Additional Comments
11. Currency Conversion table

Activities of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) include the work of scientific commissions, e.g. Commission 7 – Cadastre & Land Management
 Com7-website (till 2001), including Reforming the Cadastre with Standardized Country Reports (country answers to questionnaries)

FIG furthermore issues proceedings from conferences and workshops, reports, e.g. "Cadastre 2014" , and publication no. 21: The Bathurst Declaration on Land Administration for Sustainable Development, 1999.

	stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities;
	the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the Union;
	the ability to take on the obligations of membership including adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.

the conditions for its integration through the adjustment of its administrative structures, so that European Community legislation transposed into national legislation is implemented effectively through appropriate administrative and judicial structures

Information on accession countries (Bulgaria Malta Cyprus Poland Czech Republic Romania Estonia Slovakia Hungary Slovenia Latvia Turkey Lithuania ) is available here.

Details on accession documentation:

I.ii. Support for the economic transition process in Ukraine

13.The EU is committed to supporting Ukraine's efforts in establishing an environment that is conducive to economic activity and will support Ukraine in its economic and social reforms.

14.The EU encourages Ukraine to establish macro-economic policies aiming at price stability, sound public finances and a sustainable current account position. In order to proceed further to price stability it is important that the central bank is allowed to operate independently of political interference. Existing prudential regulations for financial sector supervision need to be strengthened. Tax collection must be improved, and ad hoc tax amnesties and tax exemptions for specific sectors of the economy should be avoided.

15.The EU strongly encourages Ukraine to intensify its efforts to build a functioning market economy through greater structural, economic and administrative reforms in the context of a comprehensive reform programme agreed with the International Monetary Fund. This should include establishing and enforcing clear property rights, further privatisation, further liberalisation of prices, the raising of communal tariffs for energy, water and rents to full cost recovery levels, restructuring of business, and encouraging the growth of small and medium size enterprises. The overall pace of these reforms needs to be accelerated. As far as sectoral reform is concerned, the agriculture, energy and transport sectors deserve particular attention.

16.The introduction of a land reform process is required to facilitate, inter alia, the long term lease of land as collateral for loan s, paving the way for more investment in the agriculture sector.

The above mentioned regular reports from 1999 contain a detailed analysis of the progress made by these 13 candidate countries since november 1998. They show that all countries except Turkey fulfill the political criteria for accession and that only Cyprus and Malta fully meet the economic criteria. Regarding the adoption of the acquis, the situation varies between countries : while good progress was made by Hungary, Latvia and Bulgaria the pace of transposition in Poland and the Czech Republic was slow. The full 1999 Regular Reports can be found here

For example, in the report for Latvia, in section D on Accession Partnership, subsections on .. Assessment of short and medium term priorities, .. Short-term priorities ..Economic criteria you find: Establishment of medium term economic policy priorities ... .. ... modernization of the agriculture sector and establishment of a land and property register . The subsequent assessment states that

Land registration continues, with the State Land Cadastre almost complete, but with registration in the Legal Register still relatively low. Therefore, this priority has been partially met.

Similarly, in the report for Slovenia mentioning is made that

The land market has been liberalized and 92% of the agricultural land is in private hands. Former state farms, which were all by 1998, arprivatizede constrained in their investment decisions by uncertainties about the property rights on the land which they use. Only 28% of this land has been officially restituted.

An alternative or supplement to browsing through the reports is to use a search machine, e.g. www.google.com, with search criteria like:

• accession "land market" eu.int
• accession "land registration" eu.int
• progress accession cadastre eu.int

There seems to be - more or less detailed - information on the following countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovenia

The European Parliament, in an Opinion of 25. June 2001, repeatedly comments on the progress of land reform in accession countries.

Finally, specific activities are organised to assist Central and Eastern European States in reforming their legislation on property issues, for instance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldavia, Romania or in Kosovo (FRY).