II CROBECO Conference  and  XIV ELRA General Assembly   Hosted by the Centre of Registers and Information Systems of Estonia, the  II CROBECO Conference and the XIV ELRA General Assembly took place in  Tallinn on 1st and 2nd December 2011.   CROBECO Press Release   European Property Rights and Wrongs by Diana Wallis MEP and Sarah Allanson   Presentations:  […]

From May, registration applications will be electronically submitted via a new Land Registry portal.

Last 14th June, ELRA was invited to attend a Seminar hosted by the ALDE group and Ms. Diana Wallis, MEP, at the European Parliament in Brussels.

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 […]