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6 APRIL WEDNESDAY

At the Budapest Land Office (Address: H-1051 Budapest Sas u. 19.)

17:30 - 18:30 Preparatory Meeting for Speakers, WPLA Chairpersons, ECE Secretariat

18:30 - 20:00 Ice Breaker Reception at the Land Registry for all delegates at Majd Leonard Restaurant (Address: H-1055 Budapest Balassi Bálint u. 7.)

7 APRIL THURSDAY

At the Palace of the Hungarian Culture Foundation (Address: H-1014 Budapest, Szentháromság tér 6.)

08:30 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:30 Opening Session

Chair: Dr. Norbert Berczi, Deputy State Secretary responsible for Land Administration and Geoinformation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hungary

• Opening of the Workshop by Dr.Norbert Berczi

• Opening speech: Dr. Imre Németh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hungary

• Opening Welcome Guennadi Vinogradov, Secretary of the UNECE Working Party on Land Administration
• Opening Welcome Bengt Kjellson, Chair of the UNECE Working Party on Land
  Administration

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 - 13:00 Institutional Development and New Services

Chair: John Manthorpe, International Unit, HM Land Registry, United Kingdom
Co-Chair: Bengt Kjellson, Chair, UNECE, Working Party on Land Administration
Rapporteur: Margrét Hauksdóttir, Deputy General Directol, The Land Registry of Iceland

• Institutional Development and News Services on National and Regional Levels - Gerhard Muggenhuber, Dipl.-Ing., Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying, Austria

• The Conclusion of the I. Regional Round Table on Land Administration - Damir Pahic, Assistant Director for Cadastre Sector, State Geodetic Administration, Croatia
• Preparing for the future - implementing a single agency approach to land administration in Norway - Helge Onsrud, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway
• e-Conveyancing - Edward Beardsall, Deputy Chief Executive and Director for Business Development, HM Land Registry, United Kingdom
• How can an information center assist in institutional capacity building in the Region? - Marianna Pósfai, Director, CELK Center
• Discussion
  

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:40 Role of Land Administration in Formulation and Implementation of Agricultural and Environmental Policies and Programmes (1)

Chair: Jacques Delincé, Unit Head of MARS Unit, Joint Research Center, Italy

Co-Chair: Bozena Lipej, Deputy Director General, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia

Rapporteur: Ailsa Robertson, International Business Development Manager, Resisters of Scotland, United Kingdom

• EU Directives impact on the Cadastral field - Ignacio García Rodríguez, Vice President, Spanish Directorate General for the Cadastre, Spain

• Development of the Hungarian Natural Conservation Information System - Attila András Takács, Head of Department, National Directorate for Environment, Nature and Water, Hungary
• New Web Based Services in Implementation of Agricultural and Environmental Policies and Programmes - Karel Charvat, Vice President, Lesprojekt Sluzby Ltd., Czech Republic
• The Role of Space Referencing Core Data for GI in Hungary - Peter Winkler, Vice General Director, Institute for Geodesy and Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI), Hungary
• Discussion

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:40 Role of Land Administration in Formulation and Implementation of Agricultural and Environmental Policies and Programmes (2)

Chair: Ferenc Tar, Head of Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hungary

Co-Chair: Chryssy Potsiou, Lecturer, Technical Chamber of Greece/National Technical University, Greece

Rapporteur: Csaba Wirnhardt, Chief Advisor, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography and Remote Sensing, Hungary

• Cadastral and IASC (LPIS) Data Integration in Poland - Ewa Wysocka, Head of Department of Cadastreand Geo-Cartographic Resources, Insitute of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland

• Remote Sensing and GIS applications for managing area based subsidy systems in IACS - Gábor Csornai, Head of Remote Sensing Center, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography and Remote Sensing, Hungary
• Polish experience in establishing factual and legal status of real estates as basis for setting demarcation lines between real estates, partitioning and integrating of immovable properties - Edward Mecha, President, GISPOL Association, Poland
• LPIS based GIS background of managing rural development measures in IACS - Bernadett Csonka Expert in agri-environment and remote sensing, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography and Remote Sensing, Hungary
• Discussion

Evening

At the Boat Columbus (Budapest, V. District Vigadó Square, Danube - Pier 4.)

19:30 - 22:00 Gala Dinner

Welcome address given by Fülöp Benedek, Permanent State Secretary,

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hungary

8 APRIL FRIDAY

09:00 - 10:40 Modernisation of Land Administration Service

Chair: Chair: Dr. Norbert Berczi, Deputy State Secretary responsible for Land Administration and Geoinformation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hungary

Co-Chair: Helge Onsrud, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway

Rapporteur: Bernadett Csonka, Remote Sensing Expert, Institute for Geodesy and Cartography and Remote Sensing, Hungary

• The Belgian Cadastre - Pierrette Fraisse, First attaché of Finance, Cadastre, General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation, Belgium

• Cadastre and land registration - The Romanian Approach - Adriana Padureanu, Director of The International Relationship and European Integration, National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration, Romania
• e-Services of Land Administration in Hungary - Piroska Zalaba, Project Leader, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Department of Land Administration and Geoinformation, Hungary
• Registers of Scotland - The Role of Our Partnership in Supportin Institutional Development and Services - David Blaikie, Partnership Manager, Registers of Scotland, United Kingdom
• Discussion

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 - 12:50 Land Consolidation: Main Principles and Best Practices (1)

Chair: Frank von Holst, Advisor International Projects, Dienst Landelijk Gebied (DLG), Netherlands
Co-Chair: Vladimir Evtimov, Land Tenure and Rural Development Officer, FAO - Sub Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SEUR), Bulgaria
Rapporteur: Szabolcs Bíró, Research Fellow, Agricultural Research Institute, Hungary

• Land Consolidation in Lithuania - Vilma Daugaliene, Head of Land Management Division, National Land Service, Lithuania

• The National Land Fund as instrument to help the land consolidation in Hungary - Róbert Sebestyén, Deputy Director, National Land Fund, Hungary
• Land Consolidation and the role of the Land Registry in Spain - Isabel González García, Land Registrar, Colegio de Registradores de Espana, Spain
• Land Consolidation in Sweden and Armenia, different approaches - Göran Ivarsson, Special Cadastral Surveyor, Swedesurwey, Sweden
• Discussion

12:50 - 13:50 Lunch

13:50 - 15:30 Land Consolidation: Main Principles and Best Practices (2)

Chair: László Tömör, President, National Land Fund, Hungary

Co-Chair: Vilma Daugaliene, Head of Land Management Division, National Land Service, Lithuania

Rapporteur: Ninel Jasmine Sadjadi, Project Manager Research, Center of Legal Competence, Austria

• Land consolidation instrument to maintain viable rural areas - Frank von Holst, Advisor International Projects, Dienst Landelijk Gebied (DLG), Netherlands

• Land consolidation in the Rhineland's lignite mining district - an example of balancing private and public requests on land use - Ralph Merten, Technical Director, Land Consolidation Authority, Germany
• Land consolidation: Practice at Bodrogköz - Zsuzsa Flachner, Director, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Soil and Agrochemistry, Hungary
• The FAO Regional Workshop on Land Consolidation - trends and conclusions - Vladimir Evtimov, Land Tenure and Rural Development Officer, FAO - Sub Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SEUR), Bulgaria

• Discussion

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Concluding Session

Chair: Ignacio García Rodríguez Vice President, Spanish Directorate General for the Cadastre, Spain

Co-Chair: András Osskó, Deputy Director, Budapest Land Office, Hungary

Rapporteur: Diarmuid Clancy, Director of Operations, Land Registry, Ireland

Presentation:

• WPLA Workshop in Helsinki- Arvo Kokkonen, National Land Survey of Finland, Finland

Panel members:

• Chryssy Potsiou, Lecturer, Technical Chamber of Greece / National Technical University, Greece

• Christian Graefen, Director, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ), Germany
• Bengt Kjellson, Chair of the UNECE Working Party on Land AdministrationDamir Pahic, Assistant Director for Cadastre Sector, State Geodetic Administration, Croatia
• Damir Pahic, Assistant Director for Cadastre Sector, State Geodetic Administration, Croatia
• Bozena Lipej, Deputy Director General, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia
• Helge Onsrud Senior Advisor, Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway
• Guennadi Vinogradov, Secretary of the UNECE Working Party on Land
  Administration

17:00 - 17:15 Closing words - Dénes Szendrő, Head of Department, Department of Land Administration and Geoinformation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hungary

17:30 - 20:00 Optional sightseeing tour with bus in Budapest (Meeting at the registration desk)