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Institutional setting
A Strategic Plan of the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre has been created, covering the period 2011-2015. The NSDI Strategy is in its finalizing stage.
Amendments and addenda have been made to the Law on Real Estate Cadastre (Official Gazette of RM, N° 40/2008, 158/2010, 17/2011, 51/2011).
A letter was sent out to the authorities (Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry for Environment and Physical Planning, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, Ministry for Local Self-Government, Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, Central Registry of the Republic of Macedonia (RM) and the Association of Local Self-Government Units to nominate new members for the Advisory Committee for Land Policy. The nominations that came in were sent to the Government of RM, so the decision can be made about the new composition of the committee.
Land administration
The following amendments to laws have beeb made recently:
- Amendments to the Law on Real Estate Cadastre (Official Gazette of RM No 158/2010; 17/2011 and 51/2011).
- Amendments to the Law on Agricultural Land (Official Gazette of RM No 148/2011). New amendments are being drafted.
- Amendments to the Law on Construction Land (Official Gazette of RM No 53/2011). New amendments are being drafted.
- Amendments to the Law on Expropriation (Official Gazette of RM No 6/2012).
- Amendments to the Law on Acting with Illegally Built Buildings.
- Enactment of the Law on Underground and Aboveground infrastructural buildings with their adjoining installations (Official Gazette of RM No 6/2012).
Spatial data infrastructure (SDI)
The Government of the Netherlands has provided a EUR 200.000,00 donation for the Project titled ‘Support in the Preparation of an NSDI strategy’ which started at the end of 2010 and will be finalized in the first half of 2012.
A
PowerPoint presentation
on the SDI status in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia dated 5 April, 2012 is also available.
Relevant written material
Defining a Vision and a Mission Statement:
- Analysis of the European and national policy and the impact on and implications for NSDI
- Defining the strategic mission and vision
- Defined goals for NSDI
- Guiding principles for NSDI
- List of key participants
Building a business case:
- A matrix for NSDI costs and financing options
- Business conditions
- Business model
- Financing model
- Partnership model
- Cost-benefit analysis
Defining the governance structure:
- Recommended governance and institutional framework
- Draft Statute and Membership in the Coordination Body for NSDI
- Draft Stature and Inter-ministerial working groups
- Model for inclusion of the private/public sector
- Communications plan
Legal Framework* (in accordance with the European INSPIRE Directive):
- Draft Law on NSDI of the Republic of Macedonia
- Draft Rulebook for Topics and Spatial Datasets
- Draft Rulebook for Interoperability
- Draft Rulebook for Metadata
- Draft Rulebook for Network services
- Draft Rulebook for Search Criteria
- Draft Agreement for the Exchange of Data and Services within NSDI of the Republic of Macedonia
Analysis of the existing IT infrastructure and of the geospatial data of the key stakeholders:
- Analysis of the existing IT infrastructure and of the geospatial data of the key stakeholders
- List of publicly accessible spatial data
- Conceptual architecture for the interoperable NSDI infrastructure
- Defining tools for creating and maintaining metadata
- Interoperability of the spatial data and services – standard in the framework data in NSDI
- Network services: draft specifications for the services
- Defining the tools for data exchange
- Defining the centralized registries
- Requests for a Government geo-portal
The listed documents are available at www.katastar.gov.mk
*Having in mind the fact that the legal frame is in its draft version, it still has not been published on AREC website. If the need arises, AREC may deliver it to the project team within this project.
Laws related to NSDI:
- Law on the Environment (Official Gazette of RM N° 53/2005, 81/2005, 24/2007, 59/2008, 83/2009, 47/2010, 124/2010, 51/2011)
- Law on Personal Data Protection (Official Gazette of RM N° 7/2005, 103/2008, 124/2010, 135/2011)
- Law on Free Access to Public Information (Official Gazette of RM N° 13/2006, 86/2008, 6/2010)
- Law on Copyright and related rights (Official Gazette of RM N° 115/2010, 140/2010, 51/2011)
- Law on Electronic Communications (Official Gazette of RM N° 13/2005, 14/2007, 55/2007, 98/2008, 83/2010)
Relevant other projects
- Support for the development of an NSDI Strategy, a current project that is being implemented in cooperation with the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – the Dutch Cadastre
- Developing a Spatial Data Model and Standards for AREC, a current project that has the goal of preparing a Model for AREC’s geospatial data, in accordance with the European INSPIRE Directive, which will be used to publish data
Expectations of the Beneficiary
- The Draft NSDI legislation that includes the INSPIRE Directive should be transformed into final version, which would help achieve harmonization with the European Regulations
- Harmonization with the National European Standards
- Raising the level of NSDI information and public awareness
Further relevant institutions
Should the need arise to involve other institutions in the course of implementing this project, AREC will contact them in order to establish cooperation and participation in this project (e.g. the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Ministry of Information Society and Administration, the Universities)
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