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
