F I G Commission 7,Annual Meeting 1996,Budapest, Hungary

One Day International Conference, 18 June 1996

"Land Management in the Process of Transition"

Introduction

 Slovenia is a Central-European country that gained independence by disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in 1991. It is a country in fast transition to market economy. This transition is reflecting also in the field of land administration and therefore also on cadastre as one of its basic registers. The land administration registers and processes are recognised as the most important tools in recording information on ownership, value and use of land to support effective management and development of land resources, to provide support to taxation and real-estate market, to protect ownership and encourage investment processes.

Slovenia is aware of the importance of land management and land administration and in this field there are numerous activities in progress at the moment. We are facing problems that are based on one hand on the past economic system and outgrown thinking and on the other hand on institutional build-up of a new state and the change of the political and legal system. To solve these problems and to mitigate the risks we are closely observing similar activities in other countries in transition and in developed countries and also following international processes and guidelines.

Slovenia has 20.256 km2 and it is situated between the Alps the Mediterranean Sea and the Panonic lowland. It is covered with forests (app. 55%), the rest is agricultural land and urban areas. It has 2 million inhabitants. The land is divided in 6 million parcels with 600.000 land owners. Slovenia's p.c. GDP in '95 was 9500 US$.

Picture 1. Slovenia on the map