ESTATE REGISTER: ONE FOR ALL!
On October 19, 2011, the USAID Local Investment and National Competitiveness project (USAID LINC) and the State Registration Service of Ukraine signed a Protocol of Cooperation, “willing to combine their efforts to form a unified state registration system for estate in Ukraine and create a State Register of Immovable Property Rights”
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State Registration Service Chairman Leonid Yefimenko (left) and USAID LINC Chief of Party Howard Ockman shake hands after having signed the Protocol of Cooperation. Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Yefimenko said, “The important thing is that after the signing the two parties will fully fulfill their commitments and will not stop but continue the collaboration” |
Ukraine is the only one country on the European continent and even among the former Soviet Republics to have no unified register for real estate. It means that owners of land plots and structures sitting on these plots have to register their titles to the properties with different – exactly seven! – registers, which are maintained by different institutions following different rules and are not reliable. Although the dialectical materialism taught us that quantity must transform into quality, in this specific case “the quantity gives rise to anti-quality,” says Pavlo Kulinych, USAID LINC Land Market Reform Advisor.
In April 2011, the President of Ukraine decreed that the maintenance of a unified real estate register would be a function of the newly-established State Registration Service of Ukraine (UkrDerzhReyestr), which must ensure that the register will be in place and operational from Jan. 1, 2012. Before that date, UkrDerzhReyestr needs to hire and train key personnel – state registrars of rights to real estate.
One of the first activities within the framework of cooperation between USAID LINC and UkrDerzhReyestr will be training, scheduled for November 29 – December 3, 2011, for about 100 regional-level officers from the State Registration Service to prepare them for working with the unified property register. In addition, according to the Protocol of Cooperation, USAID LINC will assist in skill development of UkrDerzhReyestr staff through study tours, internship programs, and other activities aimed at acquiring international experiences and standards.
The Protocol also addresses a number of other issues, such as provision of information for the creation of a unified state registration system for property rights and encumbrances in real estate, and the development of proposals on how Ukrainian estate registration legislation can be improved.
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Pavlo Kulinych, USAID LINC Land Market Reform Advisor: “Having one register instead of seven is beneficial not so much in that the public costs of register maintenance are divided by seven – though it’s important per se – as in the significantly increased reliability of records, and consequently, security of the registered rights to land and other immovable properties. ”And what is of a paramount importance, the unified register will make life easier for all those who need to register their estate rights, not only citizens but also businesses and foreign investors, thus facilitating economic growth” |
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