Agency for Cadastre will be set up under the State Tax Committee in place of the State Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre (SCLRGCSC). This is provided for by the Sep.7 presidential decree on radical improvement of the system for keeping records of land and state cadastres.
The document notes that the concentration in one body of tasks on the allocation of land, keeping records of it, placing crops, exercising land supervision, as well as preparing cadastral files of land plots, buildings and structures by the registering authority directly generated a conflict of interest in this area.
In accordance with the decree, the tasks, functions and powers of the SCLRGCSC for monitoring agricultural land and crops, placing agricultural crops, exercising state supervision over the protection of agricultural lands, carrying out soil appraisal, determining the standard value of agricultural land, increasing soil fertility, conducting research in the field of soil science and geobotany shall be transferred to the Ministry Agriculture.
Monitoring of non-agricultural lands in order to timely determine changes in their structure, prevent and eliminate the consequences of negative processes shall be conducted as part of the State Monitoring of the Environment in Uzbekistan.
The decree defines the main tasks and activities of the Cadastre Agency in the field of state registration of rights to real estate, in the field of geodesy and cartography, as well as in the field of maintaining state cadastres.
A procedure has been introduced in accordance with which the cadastral affairs of land plots in reserve, as well as new land plots allocated on agricultural land are prepared at the request of regional departments of agriculture, on non-agricultural land - by district and city construction departments based on orders from mayors’ offices.
The preparation of cadastral files is to be carried out by cadastre engineers certified by the Cadastre Agency, and organizations of the agency system on a contractual basis;
From October 1, 2020, decisions, protocols of auctions and tenders, notarized transactions and other documents providing for the emergence, change, alienation, limitation and termination of rights to land plots come into force after state registration in the National Geographic Information System of Uzbekistan.
Maintaining the state land cadastre, as well as the state cadastre of buildings and structures, is carried out on the basis of data collected through state registration of rights to real estate.
From January 1, 2021, all information about the type, contours, boundaries and land owners is entered into the online geoportal of the Cadastre Agency, which is integrated with the National Geographic Information System.
The land balance and its reporting, as well as the book of the district and city land cadastre, are kept exclusively in the National Geographic Information System.
A unified system of state cadastres is formed in the National Geographic Information System. State cadastral data are submitted to the National Geographic Information System exclusively through telecommunication networks directly.
It is planned to revise the prices for public services in the field of the state cadastre of real estate, including a reduction in the amount of the fee levied for the state registration of rights to agricultural land plots.
The Ministry of Agriculture was instructed to prepare a proposal on attracting business entities to carry out work on grading the soil, determining the standard value of agricultural land and conducting geobotanical studies.
