improve their living conditions on their own responsibility and 
through their own efforts by: 
e transferring and mobilising technical, economic and 
organisational skills and expertise, 
e promoting the framework conditions 
peaceful and self-determined development. 
necessary for 
The GTZ principles of technical co-operation are: 
e helping people to help themselves, 
e participation, 
e  self-responsibility, 
e  target-group orientation, 
e principle of minimum intervention. 
GTZ services which are provided within the frame of technical 
co-operation: 
e advises organisations in partner countries in planning, 
implementing and evaluating their projects and programs, 
e recruits experts, prepares them and provides sector- 
specific and human resources backstopping services during 
their assignment, 
e conducts project-related training and upgrading, 
e conducts technical planning and purchases materials and 
equipment for projects, 
e provides non-repayable financial 
Technical Co-operation funds. 
contributions from 
Looking from Croatian side the main goal of technical co- 
operation is transfer of technologies and knowledge from those 
countries which have technologically developed and 
organisationally efficient systems of registering real estates and 
real property rights. 
SGA has several projects which are going on trough 
international technical co-operation (GTZ, SIDA, Nederland’s 
Kadaster, Statens Kartverk). SGA basic principles of technical 
co-operation with those agencies are: 
e introduction of norms and standards which will help 
Croatia in the process of joining European Union 
e introduction of new technologies 
e projects have to follow Croatian legislative (The Law 
about Ownership and Other Real Property Rights, The 
Law about Land Books, The Law about State Survey and 
Real Estate Cadastre) and the results of projects can 
suggest changes in legislative, 
e projects have to be in frame of Five Years State Survey 
and Real Estate Programme (2001.-2005.) which was 
introduced by Croatian Parliament, 
e projects have to correspondent with Real Property 
Registration and Cadastre Project financed from World 
Bank Loan and European Union donation, 
e projects have to be mutually defined by Croatian and 
project partner side, 
e sustainability of proposed solution, 
e development of public — public partnership on projects, 
e development of public — private partnership on projects, 
e education of people involved in projects. 
On technical co-operation projects SGA has several functions 
and responsibilities such as: 
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e SGA, as state administration responsible for cadastre 
system in Croatia, is responsible for state budget funds for 
cadastre development and maintenance, and is providing 
money for parts of projects activities that are financed 
from Croatian side, 
e SGA, as state administration, has to take care that project 
results which will be implemented in cadastre offices and 
municipal courts are in frame of Croatian legislative 
e SGA, as state administration responsible for state budget 
funds, is responsible for procurement of goods and 
services, provided from private companies, according to 
Public Procurement Act, 
e SGA, as state administration responsible for cadastre 
system, has supervision responsibilities on projects results, 
e SGA, as project partner, has responsibility that projects 
results will be implemented and spread across Croatia, 
e SGA, as project partner, is responsible for co-ordination of 
different institution and companies involved in projects. 
3. CROATIAN LANDREGISTRATION SYSTEM 
TODAY 
The Croatian system of registering real estates and real property 
rights has been founded on the old Austro-Hungarian 
registration system and is similar to the German land 
registration system today. It is a two tied system and based on 
the registers: real estate cadastre and land book registry. 
The real estate cadastre has the task to describe the facts of the 
individual parcels of land (descriptive data), while the land 
register gives information as to the legal aspects, status of 
ownership (legal data) and so on. 
In real estate cadastre, real estates and their parts (plots) are 
described according to their technical characteristics such as: 
location, shape, area, land use, construction on land and 
cadastral number. 
In land books there are data about persons who have real 
property rights (owners and holders of other real property 
rights) on real estates and their parts defined by cadastre, and 
types of rights (ownership, servitude’s, construction rights, 
mortgages, concessions, long term leases etc.). 
The real estate cadastre is under the responsibility of the State 
Geodetic Administration (SGA) while the responsibility for 
land books are on municipal courts (land book registration 
units) and Ministry of Justice side. 
Croatia has 56542 square kilometres and 4,5 million 
inhabitants. Registration units for both cadastre and land book 
are cadastral municipalities (3 300). 
In cadastre offices (112) there are 57 000 detail sheets of 
cadastral maps, and there are cadastral text data bases for all 
cadastral municipalities. 
According to existing cadastral records there are 22 million 
land parcels (plots) in Croatia. The problem is that cadastre and 
land books were not updated. There is a big difference between 
records in the land books, records in the real estate cadastre and 
the real ownership on the ground. The real number of plots that 
exist on land is estimated on 15 million, even less. 
  
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