The four organisations will establish a close cooperation to achieve their common goals and will work together to: – Raise awareness among decision makers that Cadastral and Land Registration information and services are fundamental for protecting and prioritising legal rights, secure land tenure, reliable land value, efficient land use and sustainable land development functions. – Promote that Cadastres and Land Registries provide reliable and authoritative information, as well as, state of the art services, meeting the needs of private and public users. – Cooperate to facilitate the communication with European Institutions to promote our common vision.

In the framework of the PCC conference, Gerard Leenders made a presentation on EULIS and showed in a live demonstration the achievements of the LINE-project.

In November EULIS was again invited to the Working Party meeting. Gerard Leenders, senior EULIS consultant, explained in detail the results of the LINE-project. The EULIS platform is now state-of-the-art. Specific discussion concentrated on the further integration of the EULIS-service in the e-Justice portal. The delegates found it important that also non-member state can be member of EULIS and can be connected to member-states.

A number of countries showed strong interest in the EULIS service. The representative from the land administration organisation (SCPI) in Azerbaijan expressed his wish to become a new EULIS-member.

The conference was a great success with some 130 participants from over 30 countries. The social programme was also great, hosting the gala diner in the Tower of London with a VIP-visit to the Royal Crown Jewels.

The seminar was hosted by the State Enterprise of the Centres of Registers in Vilnius, Lithuania. The festive dinner was offered by the hosts. We look back on a very successful project especially since the renewed EULIS services has already been well received by various parties.

CINDER is for EULIS an important oportunitiy to raise plublicity. Gerard Leenders manned the booth of EULIS and explained to many interested participants the new feateures of EULIS. In the photograph he is preparing for the visitors during coffee break.

Traditionally a lot of participants are employed by organisations in the field of land registry, like registrars, notaries, legal experts. With several delegations, among others from Spain, Bosnia, Macedonia, Greece to mention a few, we had very interesting discussions, and of course a EULIS-membership was one of the topics

In the new setting it is possible to connect with various options at different levels. Please refer to the web-site or contact us directly for more detailed information on the new features.

We are seeking funding for a follow-up to the LINE-project in order to further improve the EULIS service and to attract new user groups. At the same time we will attract more countries for membership enabling the EULIS-portal to become the ultimate platform for exchange of land and property information for the whole of Europe.

Effective September 1st 2012, Redpill will host the EULIS IT-facilities. The contract was signed in July by Per Dahl, Business Director of Redpill and Rik Wouters, Managing Director of EULIS. Thanks to this new collaboration with Redpill, we are confident that EULIS will continue to provide a stable service to its users.

Rik Wouters shared recent developments on the LINE-project and he explained that for land registration and cadastral law the glossary will use so-called “place holders”. These are European-wide generic statements that will be supplemented by additional details from each jurisdiction or country.
Wim Louwman noted that this fits well into the plans of the European Commission for a more transparent European legal area.

The difference is that the European Court of Justice will use national generic formulations for family law.

Appointments were made to cooperate closely in the near future towards the development of a European glossary. The European Court of Justice will make linguists available. In turn EULIS and ELRA will make the results available that the LINE-project has realized to date.
The European Commission representative indicated that, in a new funding round, proposals for an e-Justice European Glossary on Land Registration and Cadastres will be strongly supported. This will be further developed during furture consultations between EULIS, ELRA and the European Court of Justice.

Representatives from the Spanish Association of Registrars will also take part in Project LINE and the Steering Committee to define a next generation platform for EULIS, which will be aligned with the European e-Justice Portal.

“We are extremely pleased to have the Spanish involved in EULIS and I firmly believe that they can make a significant contribution in Project LINE also” says Chairman of the EULIS board, Bengt Kjellson.

Almudena del Río Galán, Director of International Affairs at the Association of Registrars of Property, Commercial and Personal Property in Spain says:

“Our Corporation is very pleased and proud to be joining the EULIS community. We are very optimistic that Spanish Registrar’s contribution will provide tangible benefits to the community membership.”

She goes on to say that: “We’re particularly pleased to be teaming with the EULIS community to accelerate the rate of innovation and believe that this relationship will improve our common ability to share information and to collaborate with other European organisations such as ELRA. We also think that the collaboration will lead to an even broader range of applications and solutions and assist in the successful integration into the European e-Justice Portal.”

At the launch conference for Project LINE delegates discussed their requirements for the next generation EULIS 2.0 platform. The specifications rely on the involvement from Land Registry organisations and other key stakeholders such as the e-Justice Working Party to ensure alignment with the wider e-Justice programme.

The conference gathered together the community of official land registry organisations across 22 EU member states (including 24 land registry organisations). Other European organisations such as representatives of the European Council and ELRA also actively participated in the conference.

“The next generation EULIS platform will be aligned with the newly launched European e-Justice portal, which includes Land Register content and will give us future opportunities to bring more services and products to a European audience” said Bengt Kjellson, Chairman of Project LINE.

Funded by the European Commission’s (Directorate General Justice), Project LINE is being supported by the Civil Justice programme for a two-year period from 1 September 2010.

The aim of Project LINE is to facilitate compliance with the requirements of the e-Justice programme in the area of land registration. The Project will specify the requirements of the next generation EULIS portal with the input of as many European land registry organisations as possible.

All European Land Registry organisations have been invited to attend and get involved in Project LINE.
For further details please contact Gerard or Rik..

‘This is a great step forward for all of our organisations’ says Bengt Kjellson, Chairman of EULIS. He goes on to say ‘it means that all the projects can benefit from a more unified approach and the land registry organisations can be confident that the projects will be mindful of one another’s scope and goals’.