FIG President Stig Enemark attended the 2nd
European Conference on Cadastre, Bucharest, Romania, 6-7 May 2010.
The conference was entitled “The Cadastral surveyor – Paving the
Way to the Future” and was organized by the European Council of
European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE) in cooperation with the Romanian
Association of Private Surveyors, the Romanian Geodetic Union, and
the Romanian Agency of Cadastre and Land Registration.
The opening session included welcome addresses from
the Romanian government and the Romanian surveying organisations
followed by an opening speech from the CLGE President Mr. Henning
Elmstroem and a keynote address by the FIG President Stig
Enemark entitled “From Cadastre to Land Governance” showing
the evolution of cadastral systems over recent years towards the
broader concept of land governance and the role of FIG and global
surveying profession in this regard.
The conference was well attended by the delegates
from the more than 30 CLGE member countries and about 130 local
Romanian surveyors. The conference was organized in three main
sessions: (i) The Cadastral surveyor, a Cornerstone in Society; (ii)
The Publicly Appointed Surveyor; and (iii) The Romanian Surveyor and
their Role in the Real Estate Economy. The session included
presentations from Mr. Albert Jacquard French Scientist and
Philosopher on “What is the societal role of the surveyor seen
from the outside World”; Mr. Rudolf Kolbe (AT),
Vice-President of CLGE and CEPLIS, on the “Code of Conduct of the
European Surveyors”; Mrs.
Dorine Burmanje (NL), Chair of EuroGeographics, on the “Advantages
of a Harmonisation of the European Cadastres”; and Mr. Rob
Mahoney
(GB), Vice-President of CLGE, on the “Impact of EU Legislation on
Cadastral Surveying”. Furthermore, a number of country
perspectives were given from Belgium, Switzerland Croatia, Denmark,
Romania, and Italy.
The Conference included the launch of the adopted “Code
of Conduct of the European Surveyors” that is an important and
very useful document also in a global context. The conference also
adopted the Bucharest Declaration stating some key principles of the
role of the cadastral surveyors in serving society.
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