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Real Property Cadastre and Register of Lithuania

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Real Property Cadastre and Register of Lithuania

Lithuanian land acquired by owners is entered in the real estate cadastre and register. When registering, the property is recorded on a digital map, which makes it possible to check whether the boundaries of the new property do not correspond to the boundaries of neighboring properties that are already contained in the real estate cadastre, or to the boundaries of administrative units, cadastral areas and blocks or with adjacent ones Roads, bodies of water, or waterways.

Cartographic materials and geo-referenced data from Lithuania are used to represent the property boundaries on digital maps. Since the properties created in the course of the land reform since 1992 were initially entered in the property cadastre and register and only later entered on maps, there are a considerable number of property discrepancies.

In 2005, a process of rectification and updating of cadastral maps began with the aim of correcting the boundaries of plots bordering terrain features such as roads or waterways. The boundaries of the adjacent properties on the cadastral maps were later checked using updated cartographic materials.

What does the Lithuanian Real Property Cadastre and Register offer?

You can find real property including land, buildings and separate premises in the register of real property of Lithuania. Both factual and legal data are available.

Factual data about the property consist of:

  • Area
  • Height
  • Volume
  • Year of construction
  • Owner name

Legal data include:

  • Agreements of joint ownership
  • Court rulings
  • Easement
  • Mortgages

The Register is maintained by the State Enterprise Centre of Registers and is supervised by the Ministry of Justice.

Geographic data

Efficient administration of land property requires reliable geographic data. The creation of Lithuanian georeferenced data started before the accession to the EU. An opinion poll was conducted among users and producers of geographic data that allowed defining priority areas for geographic data production for both producers of electronic products and for general population.

The priority areas are administrative borders, hydrography, transport, forests, borders of real property units entered in the cadastre, addresses, terrain and geographical names. Current geographic data is improved by making their management efficient, guaranteeing interactivity and interface, simplifying access, improving data quality and promoting.

History

After regaining independence from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991, Lithuania underwent significant changes in its governmental structure. It involved the development of laws to restore land ownership and organize a system to manage real property that helps re-establish confidence in a country's ownership.

After initial attempts to use legal information and topographical maps as a basis for developing a cadastral system to support land ownership program, it was decided that historic survey and data errors were being perpetuated from the old system. Lithuania's State Land Cadastre Enterprise formed a special committee to examine the current technology with the purpose to implement a digitally based cadastral system.

With the assistance from a special Denmark Lithuania land survey and the PHARE programme, Lithuania's State Land Surveying Institute implemented a cadastral mapping production system based on Esri software.

Later, the State Enterprise Centre of Registers was established and its tasks included with integrating real estate records and cadastre data into a single system. Data from land register and buildings, construction projects, houses, and apartments were integrated into the Real Property Information System. Legal, technical and geographic records have been integrated into the system as well.


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