FIG FAO International Seminar
State Land Management in Transitional Countries: Issues and Ways Forward

20-21 September, 2012
Budapest, Hungary

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Thursday 20 September, 2012

09.00 – 09.30 Welcome and Introductions

• Dr. Zsolt Feldman, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development
• Fernanda Guerrieri, Assistant Director-General FAO and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia
• Gerda Schennach, Chair-elect FIG Commission 7 

09.30 – 10.20 Session 1
Chair: Gerda Schennach, Chair-elect FIG Commission 7

• 1.1 Dr. Paul Munro-Faure  FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and the Management of State Land  (presentation)
• 1.2 Richard Grover State Land Management in Transitional Countries: an overview of issues and ways forward  (presentation)  (paper)
  

10.50 – 12.00 Session 2
Chair: Richard Eberlin, FAO, Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

• 2.1 Simon Keith Land Management in Context: Learning from Experience  (presentation)  (paper)
• 2.2 Willi Zimmermann Building the Capacities for Effective Management of Government-Owned Land  (presentation)  (paper)
• 2.3 Dr. Róbert Sebestyén State Land Management in Hungary  (presentation)

12.00 – 12.30 Panel discussion: What directions for improving the management of state and public sector land in transition countries?
Chair András Osskó, Chair-emeritus, FIG Commission 7
Panel: Paul Munro-Faure, Simon Keith, Willi Zimmermann, Róbert Sebestyén, Richard Eberlin, Richard Grover

13.30 – 15.00 Session 3: Systems for managing state land
Chair: Dr. Róbert Sebestyén, National Land Fund Managing Organization (NFA), Hungary

• 3.1 Katja Dells, Michael Gabel & Andreas Gläsel  IT-supported state-land management in a transitional environment: Examples from Germany and Mongolia  (presentation)  (paper)
• 3.2 Kristina Mitic Arsova The project to support the management of state-owned agricultural land in FYR  Macedonia  (presentation)  (paper)
• 3.3 Agnieszka Dawidowicz & Ryszard Źróbek  The Evolving Role of the Cadastre in the Land Administration System in Poland  (presentation)  (paper)
• 3.4 Marijana Vugrin, Tomaz Petek & Andrej Mesner State ownership in public real estate register in Slovenia - the basis for management  (presentation)  (paper)

15.30 – 17.00 Session 4: Strengthening management capacity
Chair: Willi Zimmermann, German Agency for International Cooperation GIZ

• 4.1 Marta Gross & Ryszard Źróbek Changes in Polish public real estate management system after 1989  (presentation)  (paper)
• 4.2 Ágnes Dús The FAO Member States’ perspective on the development and implementation of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land  (presentation)  (paper)
• 4.3 Irfan Tarelli  State land management in Albania: the role of central and local governments  (presentation)  (paper)
• 4.4 Craig Harris Sale of State land in New Zealand – Land Information New Zealand’s experience and disposal programme  (presentation)  (paper)

Friday 21 September, 2012

09.00 – 10.30 Session 5: Managing agricultural land
Chair: Simon Keith, United Kingdom

• 5.1 Ludmiła Pietrzak & Tadeusz Kościuk Arable lands in Poland in the market transformation period – impacts of transformations on the structure of lands, physical planning activities and the real estate cadastre  (presentation)  (paper)
• 5.2 Emil Safarov Managing of the land and land reform in the Azerbaijan Republic  (presentation)  (paper)
• 5.3 Muhammad Bashar Nuhu Valuers' Challenges in Acquiring Farmland for Large-scale Commercial Farming in Nigeria  (abstract)
• 5.4 Karunaka Ghimire Land Use Issues in Nepal: A country in dire need of solutions (paper)
• 5.5 Mats Backman Cost-benefit analysis of Land Consolidation in Sweden from the viewpoint of society and the landowner  (presentation)  (paper)

11.00 – 12.30 Session 6: Land markets and taxation
Chair: Professor Irfan Tarelli, Albanian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection

• 6.1 Alexander Sagaydak & Anna Lukyanchikova Development of Agricultural Land Market and Agricultural Land Taxation in the Russian Federation  (presentation)  (paper)
• 6.2 Marianna Pósfai State responsibility in managing the land and in the development of an effective land market in Mongolia  (presentation)
• 6.3 Antonín Kubačák, Karel Jacko  & Libor Tomandl  Two decades of the process of restitution in the Czech Republic  (presentation)  (paper)
• 6.4 Ion Anghel & Ciprian Sipos  Valuation for Property Tax Purposes: Analysis of the EU Transitional Countries  (presentation)  (paper)

13.30 – 14.30 Group discussions
Chairs:

• Mats Backman, Sweden
• Craig Harris, Land Information New Zealand
• Keith Hofgartner , Trimble
• Gyula Iván , Hungarian Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing

14.30 – 15.30 Plenary session
Chair: Libor Tomandl, Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre
Reports from discussion group chairs and panel discussion:

• Mats Backman, Craig Harris, Keith Hofgartner & Gyula Iván: Concluding presentation
• Richard Grover: Concluding remarks
• Paul Munro-Faure & András Osskó