As a result of the TakarNet24 Project, a new, modern data servicing system was born: it provides the widest availability of the most frequently requested land data kept by the land administration organisation. Up-to-now, this kind of electronic data service had been available for the registered TakarNet users only: banks, local governments, attorneys, public notaries, state organs etc. From now on, the non-stop Land Office Online is at your disposal through internet, also from your home. So, please register at the Clients Gate and have access to the services! Enter the Land Office Online System!

The services are available against payment (by paying the fees through internet with credit card).

• Part 1 of the property sheet (monthly 20 pieces free)
• E-authentic copy of property sheet (full or review)
• Non-authentic copy of property sheet (full or review)
•  Copy of cadastral map (non-authenticated)

In line with the Act CXVI/2010 on the Government Offices in Budapest and in the counties and with the amendments concerning the establishment of the government offices in Budapest and in the counties and also on the territorial integration and the relevant Governmental Decree 288/2010 (XII.21.) Korm., the county land offices as independently operating legal persons terminated to exist on 31st December 2010. Their legal successors are the competent county level government offices. From 1 January 2011 on, based on the Governmental Decree 317/2010. (XII. 27.) Korm. amending the Governmental Decree 338/2006. (XII. 23.) Korm. on the detailed rules of land offices, the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI), the Committee on Geographical Names and the land and property registration procedures, the county land offices will keep on working as organizations of public administration specialized in land and property registration. Their official name: Land Office of the County Government Office. The name of the district land offices has remained unchanged.

The European Commission has granted Hungary the extension of transitional period for the acquisition of agricultural land. „This decision is a significant success of the Hungarian agricultural diplomacy. The past half year has gone with reconciliations; I had several discussions with the representatives of the Commission and the ministers of the Member countries, and explained our arguments for the extension” – stressed the Hungarian minister of rural development, who received the good news during the meeting of the Council for Environmental Protection in Brussels.  “My colleagues and the experts have prepared an excellent documentation in which they underlined: without extension, serious disturbances would develop in the agricultural land market. Under the existing circumstances, the liberalisation of the land market would open wide space for speculative land acquisitions that would cause further decrease of competitiveness of the Hungarian agricultural producers.”

The Budapest District Land Office No. 2 (1134 Budapest, Váci út 9-15.) will be closed down with succession of title on 31st December 2010. From 3 January 2011 on, also land affairs of the IV., V., VI., és XIII. districts can be arranged in the Budapest District Land Office (currently No. 3. at 1149 Budapest, Bosnyák tér 5.), which will function from 3 January 2011 under the name  Budapest District Land Office No. 2. Consequently it means that instead of the currently existing three district land offices of Budapest only two will manage the land affairs in the future: No. 1 in Buda, (1111 Budafoki út 59) and No. 2 in Pest (1149 Bosnyák tér 5).

The 28. Working Meeting of the Cadastral Authorities of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Trentino South-Tyrol (28. Fachtagung der Vermessungsverwaltungen von Kroatien,  Österreich, Slowakei, Slowenien, Trentino-Südtirol, der Tschechischen Republik und Ungarn) took place between 25-27 May in the city of Pécs, 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe. The theme of this year’s symposium was Digital Archives – Document Management (Digitales Archiv – Dokumentenmanagement).

Since 1997, a group of former students of GEO (Székesfehérvár, (Hungary) calling themselves the „Hard Core”, dedicated keepers and supporters of the traditions of Selmecbánya students (now Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia)  have yearly been visiting the ancient Alma Mater, old Selmecbánya Academy to pay their homage to its mystic spirit radiating through so many decades. They are convinced that it is very good to come together time to time, walking, chatting and gaining new energy for their souls among the old walls.
They have already prepared their own songbook of their favourite songs, memorial jugs for the meetings, celebrated noteworthy anniversaries and birthdays. Last year, the friends made a new and serious decision. As two members of the group (István Hornacsek alias Naszluhác and László Prepok alias Lombrágó) have already been raising their jugs to friends from the heavenly hop fields, the friendly society decided to establish A MEMORIAL PLACE with the aim to determine a point in the beloved town where living and deceased pals could be together at any time. To realize the plan, they bought a grave in the cemetery of Selmecbánya in 2010 to build up a memorial stone there.

What do the cities of Prague, Pisa, Florence and Padua have in common? Why might you want to be in Edinburgh and Cambridge, but not at the same time? Why is Budapest in the news? For the answers, read what our observer, Robin Waters has to say on this and other geo matters as Hungary assumes the EU presidency.
Europhiles will know that it is Hungary’s turn to hold the Presidency of the EU. This role has less significance since the creation of a permanent President of the Council of Ministers, but still enables each country in turn to set the agenda for six months and to ensure that its own priorities are recognised. Spain, Belgium and Hungary have also formed a unique “trio” to agree a common agenda through the whole of the 18 months of their successive presidencies.

The Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI) as a part of the Hungarian Land Administration sector has a key role in Hungarian Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). FÖMI’s activities (e.g. GNSS services, Geodynamics research, Operation, Support and Development of Unified Land Registry IT systems, Remote Sensing activities, Data Services, Topographic mapping) cover an important, large part of national SDI. Active participation in international (mainly EU funded) projects is an important resource to increase the number and quality of services for citizens and national SDI.