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Although Albania has spent over 40 million euros of funds from the budget and donors to set up an accurate property registry and a modern Cadastre system, the result has been a miserable failure.
A European Union report sounds the alarm that 80 percent of properties registered in Albania have incorrect data, creating a massive mess with tremendous costs for the economy and the country.
"The two responsible institutions until 2018, ZRPP and ALUIZNI, are now both part of the State Cadastre Agency. According to their data, 11% of the country's territory is not registered and approximately 80% of registered properties have incorrect data. This constitutes an obstacle for any planning, development or investment activity," the report states.
According to the report, the vast majority of cadastral maps and property titles are not fully digitized.
"Out of 3,057 cadastral areas with around 700,000 properties on a national scale, only 140 cadastral areas with around 700,000 properties include updated digital data in ALBSREP (Albanian Real Estate Registration System," the report continues.
Currently, cadastral data and property rights created by the activities of the first registration in about 20 cadastral areas as well as from the first registration of forests and pastures, which extends to 18 municipalities of the country, are accepted and uploaded to ALBSREP.
While new digital registries of legal information, which have been created later – about 1.6 million cards – have been opened on a sporadic basis as new transactions occur in local offices, but without corresponding digital cadastral maps or plans.
"ALBSREP, through which the data of cadastral maps and property rights are maintained, does not communicate with the module for the management of supporting documents. Therefore, there is no connection between the supporting documents and the property plot," the report denounces.
The main problem is that the existing electronic system of the Cadastre does not accept data updates for transactions that take place every day in the market with property titles. Consequently in many areas, properties are digitized to a certain point and subsequent transactions with them are kept in physical paper files because the system does not accept updating.
A variety of legacy software applications are currently in use that do not conform to the ALBSREP data entry model. This complicates data validation and their migration to ALBSREP, despite the authorities' 2-year program for "improving data quality"
For all these problems, the European Union and the Albanian government had agreed on the construction of a new electronic Cadastre system, which would solve these problems. But the government and the State Cadastre Agency decided to block the EU tender by opening a parallel tender for the improvement of the problematic existing system.
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