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Registered land registry customers can search for
land and property information in any connected
register of EULIS by searching in the local service
— there are help guides and customer service
representatives for assistance.
Moreover, EULIS has developed a common termi-
nology and translation tool, designed to facilitate the
understanding of different legal concepts related to
land law in the EU.
There is also ELRA, a non-profit association in
accordance with the Laws in Belgium, which con-
sists of 29 organisations representing the land
registries of 22 EU member states. Its primary
purpose is the development and understanding of
the role of land registration in real property and
capital markets.
The National Cadastre project was launched on a
pilot basis in the mid-1990s, through the assign-
ment of small-scale studies all over the country. In
1995-1999, three cadastral survey projects were
assigned; they were actually pilot projects,
focused on the geographical dispersion of the
selected municipalities, as well as on diversity,
with the purpose of accumulating experience on a
variety of cases (urban-rural areas, islands,
mountainous areas etc.). These programmes
have been completed and a land register for
these areas has gradually been coming onstream
since 2003.
The projects realized by Ktimatologio SA
(Hellenic Cadastre) as part of the Third
Community Support Framework were based on a
new administrative approach, heavily utilizing
economies of scale and the capabilities of state-
of-the-art technology.
In 2007, a new programme was announced, con-
cerning 106 urban Greek municipalities; it is still
ongoing. In this programme, cadastral surveys
were divided into two phases, with separate ten-
dering processes. The first phase of the cadastral
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Corina Cretu, European
Commissioner for Regional
Policy, expressed the
support of the European
Commission to the efforts
for developing and
completing the National
Cadastre.
