Center on technical inventory and cadastre: Illegal constructions inventoried in Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijani State Property Committee continues working over the inventory of illegal constructions in the country, Ramiz Guliyev, the director of the center on technical inventory and cadastre under the state committee, said.

"The work on the inventory of illegal constructions is carried out with international experts within a joint project with the World Bank "Registration of real estate property", Guliyev said.

He said that at present, a number of proposals have been developed to regulate the issues of illegal constructions. They will be submitted to the government.

Earlier, Damat Bagirov, the head of the State Real Estate Register Service under the Azerbaijani State Property Committee, the working group, established under the state service within the project with the World Bank, studied and assessed illegal constructions in Azerbaijan.

Speaking about the number of such constructions in the country, he said that the exact figures will be known after developing the specific methods of regulation related to the illegal constructions in Azerbaijan. It was previously mentioned about the existence of more than 400,000 illegal buildings in the country.

The Azerbaijani government and WB signed an agreement on the joint introduction of a unified cadastre of real estate in July 2007. The project consists of four components - property registration, state property registration and management, base cartography and land cadastre, training, policy formation and project management.

The system will be automated in each registration office. The project will cover 21 offices of the State Real Estate Register Service and 60 offices of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Property Affairs.

The cost of the project is $38.57 million, with $30 million falling to WB loan. The remaining amount will be paid by the Azerbaijani government. The loan resources were allocated for 20 years under a five-year preferential period.


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