1. UNECE Working Party on Land Administration SESSION 4. Transparency and Public Access to Information on Land and Real Estate Chair: Ms. Chryssy Potsiou (National Technical University of Athens and Technical Chamber of Greece) Efficient and Transparent Real Estate and Land Management in ECE Countries 4th – 5th march 2010, Baku, Azerbaijan

2. Study on Fraud  26 Responses from 24 Member states  Keep systems land administration systems secure  Know your customer  Lmits for anonymous users  Staff training schemes  System controls in place  Monitor situation, keep statistics, and cooperate

3. UNECE Aarhus Convention  3 Pillars: Access to information, public participation and access to justice  Definition of “environmental information”  Importance of Convention for land administration activities  Right to access to environmental information and to a healthy environment

4. Public Access to Land Administration Data in Croatia  Free access to all land administration information through internet  Progrees in implementing NSDI, CROPOS, merging of databases  Challenge: data available online is unoficial. Next steps: e-application and e-conveyance

5. Public Access to Cadastral and Land Registry Data in Slovakia  Free access to all users: individuals, profesisonals and banks  Challenges to update available data online  Monitoring of users of the system and required capacities of the system

6. FAO Voluntary Guidelines  Growing pressure on natural resources  Corruption in land sector is perceived as significant in both high and low income countries  Access to land is critical for food security, social stability, economic growth and poverty reduction  Purpose is to identify problems in the region, classify common threats

7. Access to Land Information form three Perspectives  Land policy and information  Data and data sources  Access to data and the importance of metadata  Matters for discussion: Cost recovery vs universal access; web-based services vs. traditional delivery of services; potential for private sector through PPPs.

8. Jurisdictional Report on Transparency: Case of Ireland  Online access for both professionals and individuals  Importance to improve flexibility of staff in learning and acquiring new skills  Comprehensive overview of recent reforms in data management in Ireland.  Potential of EULIS project