International Workshop of the United Nations Economic Commission

International Workshop of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on Land Administration Real property cadastre and registration services in the ECE region: the impact of “E-government” reforms Minsk, 8 - 9 June 2010 SESSION III Address register: creation and uses in the elaboration of “E-government” reforms. Chair: Mr. V. Suchanek Discussant: Mr. Sergey V. Spiridonov

Presentations 1 o Mr. A. P. Povilan (Belarus): “The creation of address register in the Republic of Belarus” n Two stages – till and after 2007 n One of key registers, still under constriction n Some open problems – source data available only for a part of territory, funding, . . n Anticipated results: address portal and register

Presentations 2 o Mr. Kipras Mensevicius (Lithuania): “Address Register - Lithuanian Experience” n One of the key registers, in production n Sources: Registers of Real Property, Legal Entities and Population, Address revision project since 1999, revision 2004 n Objects: terrotorial units, addresses, streets n Provider of universal postal addresses

Presentations 3 o Mr. Rupert Kugler (Austria): “The Address-solution in the Austrian administration” n Demands on addresses: unambiguous, maintained, locatable and creating spatial relations n Central address database, corrrectly updated and available via web or applications n Advantages for citizens, municipalities, federation, disaster and risk management

Presentation 4 o Angela Matcov (Moldova): “Cadastral informational resources and their integration under the E-Government project. Experience of the Republic of Moldova n Strategic objectives „Electronic Moldov@” n Administrative addresses “Address. Cad”, land plot 4, 4 Mio, Buildings 1. 07, Premises 0, 43) n Start 2006, centralized 2009, Internet, mainly only boundaries of territorial elements

Presentations 5 o Mr. Antonio Sustic and Ms. Maja Pupacic, (Croatia): “Croatian Address Register – One of the Key Registers in Croatia. ” n One of key registers n Register of Addresses is a part of Register of Territorial Units, central and regional levels, not online interconnected, written part digitized n Address: town, settlement, street/squer, house number

Presentations 6 o Jon Atkey (United Kingdom): HM Land Registry's experience in the use of the property address register” o Not a key register, commercial produkt LR Property Gazetter, based on OS Address Point, which utilizes Royal Mail Postcod Address File) o Effects of Credit Crunch on services and employees of HM LR o Overview of E-Services of HM LR

Conclusions I o In each country an Address register is considered as one of key registers (exception is UK) o Some Address registers are in production, in some countries under development or semiproduction run, nevrtheless all governments are paying big attention to Address Registers o Addresses have to be unambiguous, maintained, locatable and creating spatial relations

Conclusions II o Addresses should be available for citizens as well as for public administration bodies o Address registers have a big importance for disaster and risk managent, for emergency services o Mutual updating and compliance withother base registers and cadastre and land registry systems have to be ensured

Conclusions III o Legal framework for Addresses Registers is a must, obligatory use by public administration bodies in many countries o Important role of Land Administration Bodies, they are administrators of Address Registers or produce them with geoferencing of address points

Conclusions IV o Important role of partnership with municipalities (often play a role in updating) and with other governmental bodies in the framework of base (key) registers o Only on-line interconnection of base registers and their mutual compliance can ensured advantages for citizens and bodies