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MODERNIZATION OF A LAND REGISTRATION SYSTEM: 
A CASE STUDY IN ROMANIA 
Jill S. Urban-Karr * t J. Kenneth Klitz^, Paul Dan Ursu b 
* Stewart Geo Technologies Inc., 5730 Northwest Pkwy, Suite 500; 
San Antonio, Texas 78249; USA — Jkarr@stewart.com ; Kklitz@stewart.com 
? Government of Romania, Project Manager/IT Manager, 
National Office of Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography; 202A Splaiul Independetei; 
Bucharest, Romania 
KEY WORDS: Cadastre, Land Registration, Romania, Ministry of Justice, Landbook, Database 
ABSTRACT: 
In the years 1989 — 1991, many of the countries of Eastern Europe experienced a significant change in their respective governments. 
This resulted in numerous social and political changes, the most important perhaps being the return of the individual's right of land 
ownership. In order to modernize the existing land records system, centralize the numerous data sources, and automate the land 
registration process, the National Office of Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography (NOCGC) in concert with the Ministry of Justice 
(MoJ) for the country of Romania, have developed a unified approach to the modernization of the land records system. With the 
legal mandates as a guide, these two agencies have created a distinctive solution that not only processes land records information in 
an accurate and timely manner, but also provides a significantly improved resource for public information and customer service 
requirements. The details of this development effort accompanied by the resultant solution will be discussed, including any 
significant impediments and/or successes that were encountered. 
1. INTRODUCTION 
The goal of the Romanian General Cadastre and Land 
Registration project is to create an integrated general cadastre 
and land book registration system, based on modern information 
technology that is designed to be scalable and adaptable to the 
current and future requirements of the NOCGC and the MoJ. 
The key objectives of the system are to: 
1. Establish an efficient system for securing real 
property rights. 
2. Provide reliable information for private investments in 
agriculture, housing and industry. 
3. Support the construction of an equitable land tax 
system for urban and rural areas. 
4. Support the privatization process for Romanian 
industry and land properties. 
Support for efficient production units’ establishment in 
agriculture. 
5. 
The land registry portion of the project is being implemented by 
the Romanian Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The Cadastre portion 
is being implemented by the National Office of Cadastre, 
Geodesy, and Cartography (NOCGC). The project is developed 
for the successful application to both the urban and rural areas 
of Romania. There are 42 Judets (counties) in Romania, and the 
first phase of the project is for the system to be implemented in 
7 of these Judets (in and around Bucharest). Two of these 7 
Judets are designated as the pilot area and will be the first phase 
of the implementation rell-out. The remaining 5 Judets will be 
completed following the approval of the pilot areas. 
2. PROJECT PERSPECTIVE 
2.1 The Award of the Contract 
After a two year preparation, bidding, and review process, this 
World Bank funded contract was awarded to IBM World Trade 
and its partner Stewart/Landata. IBM is the provider of the 
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hardware system, standard software, network design, and 
overall system integration. Stewart/Landata is the provider of 
the solution design and application devopment. ESRI software, 
provided by ESRI Romania, was the designated geospatial 
platform for the GIS solution, and the lastest ArcGIS family of 
products (ArcSDE, ArcGIS, ArcIMS, MapObjects) will be used 
in the Cadastre portion of the application. ArcSDE will be used 
for spatial data management and ArcIMS will provide Internet 
capabilities. The LANDSCAN® product from Stewart/Landata 
is the core software being provided for the land registry 
information system (LRIS). 
2.2 Project Overview 
The management of a project of this magnitude is critical to the 
successful completion of the effort. Project milestones were 
established so as to insure that the product development 
proceeded smoothly, and the client was fully involved from the 
onset of the effort. Key components were approved and signed- 
off by the client so as to insure continued positive progression, 
and the elimination of scope creep. The key phases of the 
project development included: 
1. High Level Analysis of the business processes 
2. Detailed Analysis of the business processes 
Functional Analysis and Design of the refined business 
processes 
3. Solution Design development, including object 
modeling, data flow diagraming, database design, concept 
screens and work flow migration 
4. Application and Documentation Development 
5. Application Review and Testing 
6. Pilot project and training 
7. Final roll-out 
This project is an 18-month effort, and through the utilization of 
the aforementioned project development approach, the 
application solution is delivered on schedule.