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9th session of the Working Party on Land Administration

26 - 27 February 2015
Geneva Switzerland

10 a.m. - Palais de Nations, Room XII

The 9th Session of the Working Party on Land Administration (WPLA): Land and Sustainable Development Goals provided an international platform for a high-level exchange on issues related to land administration and management. At the Session on 26-27 February, representatives of the UNECE member States reviewed the work of the WPLA in 2014 and 2015 and discussed how the UNECE can continue to work to improve land management and land administration practices throughout its region. Also, the event incorporated the needs and priorities of land administration in the UNECE region in support of the post-2015 development agenda and the proposed sustainable development goals. 

The Session had simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Russian.  

Programme of the Session     ENG     RUS

Photo gallery

 

Official documents

Document title ENG FRE RUS
Report of the 9th WPLA session
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2015/7
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Draft provisional agenda
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2015/1
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Review of the programme of work for 2014 and 2015
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2015/2
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Overview of the progress made of a study on land registration and cadastre agencies
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2015/3
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Informal Settlements: Challenges and Opportunities from South-East Europe
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2015/4
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Draft programme of work for 2016-2017
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2015/5
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ECE Coastal Cities Initiative: for resilient human settlements in coastal areas in the ECE Region
ECE/HBP/WP.7/2015/6
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Presentations - day 1

Document title ENG RUS  
High level segment of the ninth session of the Working Party on Land Administration PDF    
Interventions by the governments:  

Austrian Cadastre and Land Register – a pillar for sustainable land management
Wernher Hoffmann, Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV)

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Azerbaijan
Karam Hasanov, State Committee on Property Issues, Republic of Azerbaijan
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Cyprus
Kyriakos Tsolakis/Sokratis Hasikos, Department of Lands and Surveys, Cyprus
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Czech Republic
Karel Stencel, Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre, Czech Republic
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Finland
Markku Markkula, National Land Survey, Finland
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Germany
Peter Creuzer, State Agency for Geoinformation and State Survey Lower Saxony (LGLN)
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Latvia
Elita Baklāne-Ansberga, State Land Service of Latvia and Presiding Country of Permanent Committee on Cadastre in the European Union
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Lithuania
Kestutis Sabaliauskas/Arvydas Bagdonavicius, Sate Enterprise Centre of Registers, Lithuania
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Russian Federation
Andrey Pridankin, Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography
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United Kingdom
Paul Dowse, HM Land Registry, UK
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Report from the Informal Settlements Workshop and related recommendations
Presented by Doris Andoni, National Housing Agency, Ministry of Urban Development and Tourism, Albania
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Presentations - day 2

Document title ENG

The Second Meeting of International Organizations
Elshad Khanalibayli, UNECE WPLA Chair

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Towards Habitat III Conference
Gulnara Roll, UNECE CHLM Secretary
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Programme of Work 2014-2015 (ECE/HBP/WP.7/2015/2)
Amie Figueiredo, UNECE WPLA Secretary
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Land Administration Reviews
Julie Barry, WPLA Bureau member, HM Land Registry for England and Wales
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Studies on selected topics in land management:
Voluntary Guidelines
Rumyana Tonchovska, FAO of the UN
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"Survey on Land Administration Systems in the ECE Region"
James O'Boyle, WPLA Bureau member, Ireland
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"Land Registration and Cadastre: One or Two Agencies?"
Rik Wouters, WPLA Bureau member, Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency - Kadaster International
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"Informal Development: Challenges and Solutions from South-East Europe"
Chrissy Potsiou, WPLA Bureau member, FIG
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Report of Task Groups:
Task Group one on seminars and workshops
Markku Markkula, National Land Survey of Finland
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Task Group four on the benchmarking and preparation of inventories of land administration systems
James O'Boyle, WPLA member, Ireland
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Task Group five on cooperation with related national organizations
Ekaterina Meskhidze, WPLA member, Georgia
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Task Group six on cooperation with related international organizations and interregional cooperation
Elshad Khanalibayli, UNECE WPLA Chair
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UNITED SMART CITIES: Smart urban solutions for transition and developing countries
Domenica Carriero, UNECE CHLM Secretariat
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Programme of Work for 201-2017
Elshad Khanalibayli, UNECE WPLA Chair
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ECE Coastal Cities Initiative: for resilient human settlements in coastal areas in the ECE Region
Gulnara Roll, UNECE CHLM Secretary
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Decisions of the 75th session of the Committee on Housing and Land Management
Gulnara Roll, UNECE CHLM Secretary
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