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EU parliament vice president Diana Wallis MEP has commended a pilot scheme that promises to end the probems experienced by expats when buying property in Spain and other EU countries. The Telegraph

Hosted by Scotland House, the XIII ELRA General Assembly took place in Brussels on Tuesday 17th May 2011.

I. Financial crisis: Lack of control? The current financial crisis gives us the opportunity to think about the role control institutions ought to have in markets. The debate between regulation and complete deregulation seems to have gone to those who uphold the need for a legal system that provides preventive security and avoids excessive risks. […]

Abstract This paper analyses the legislation regulating the issue of foreign natural persons and legal entities acquiring ownership over the real property in the Republic of Croatia, especially after the legislative amendments of February 1, 2009. It also underlines certain dilemmas arising in practice because of the various interpretations of the provisions of the Law […]

I. Introduction Part of the strategy preceding the admission of the Central and East European countries to the European Union, which was adopted by the European Council in December 1994 in Essen, Germany, was also a so-called White Book on the associated Central and East European countries’ preliminaries to the integration into the Union’s internal […]

This paper is dedicated to those staff at the Irish Property Registration Authority who retire during 2010, in particular Diarmuid Clancy, Michael Treacy, Fran Leahy and Paul Brent, members of the Senior Management Team who contributed, in a very significant manner at a strategic level, to the transformation of Irish property registration services.

The Green Paper on the Review of Council Regulation 44/2001 and an accompanying European Commission report have recently been published. The document has been submitted to a public consultation covering all this documentation, with the pertinent contributions, the working foundation for the possible review, together with what is known as the Heidelberg Report, a report […]

BY PIRET SAARTEE. Advisor, Legislative Drafting and Development Division, Judicial Administration Policy Department, Ministry of Justice & INGMAR VALI. Head of the department of Court Registers, Centre of Registers and Information Systems I. Introduction We live in a time and space where paper documents are being replaced by electronic ones. It is not quite safe to keep […]

An attempt to be one of the leaders in the field of ICT applications and digital service concepts in 2015. How does this effect the cooperation between government, notaries and the Dutch Cadastre? This article successively describes the development of the digital service concepts in time (Chapter 1), Authentic Registers[1] in general (Chapter 2), linking the […]

On 25 November, a Dutchman was the first person to purchase foreign immovable property in a purchase process organised completely from his home country.