IMOLA III Closing Conference

IMOLA III Closing Conference took place on the 3rd of March of 2022, twenty-four months after the kick-off of the project.

The cooperation between the European Commission and the different stakeholders involved in the Land Registers Interconnection is a crucial issue to enhance the use of compatible technical solutions and digital formats at national level.

This is materialized in IMOLA III project, which aims to get interoperability of metadata related to the juridical information supplied by ELRD, through the consolidation the semantic model for Land Registry interconnection (LRI).

• The main results of the project are:
  – IMOLA I.KOS extended Corpus semantic Land Registers Core vocabulary
  – ELRD as a semantic and interoperable artifact
  – IMOLA multiuser web platform and web services

The first panel of the day focused on “Digital transformation in Justice: challenges and policies objectives” presented by Daniel Calleja, Director General Legal Services (EC), Adrian Vázquez, EP member and Chair of JURI Committee, Alain Pilette, Deputy Director Justice, DG JAI (Council of European Union) and Jacques Vos, Registrar from Kadaster and ELRN Contact Point.

The second panel focused on “Land Registry Interconnection: build upon the interoperability and harmonization of the Land Registry Information moderated”, with the participation of Gösta Petri, Deputy Head of Unit e-Justice, Chef de File on LRI, DG JUST (EC); Maximilian Strotmann, Deputy Head of Unit, Digital Services, DG DIGIT (EC); José Ranito, European Delegated Prosecutor European Anti-Fraud Office (EPPO) and Pedro Pernas, Land Registrar from Spain and ELRN Contact Point.

We also count with the academic expertise of Professors Elena Ioriatti (Trento University ) and Juan Llorens (UC3M), as well as the experience and vision of IMOLA Partners and ELRA contact points. Jesús Camy, project manager, and Anabel Fraga, technical director presented the results of IMOLA III.

Program

Presentations:

• LRI Statement, by Luisa Clode
• IMOLA III Results: The big picture, by Jesus Camy and Anabel Fraga
• European Public Prosecuttor’s Office by José Ranito

Academic Expertise:

• IMOLA III and comparative law: a synergy towards the future, by Elena Ioriatti
• IMOLA III concepts of Interoperability, by Juan Llorens

Partner’s visions:

• Portuguese vision of land registry interconnection, by Filomena Gaspar, President of IRN

Contact Point’s experiences:

• IMOLA III: Vision and experience of the Kadaster by Jacques Vos
• IMOLA III: Vision and experience of the Land Regsitration Agency of Malta by Miriam Rapa
• IMOLA III: Vision and experience of the Ministry of Justice of Estonia, by Neeme Lane