Regional Workshops on Land Issues

REGIONAL WORKSHOPS ON LAND ISSUES PROGRAM Central Europe and CIS April 3 – 6 Budapest, Hungary

Wednesday, April 3

13.00-14.30 Opening session Chair: Roger W. Grawe World Bank Opening Remarks by Workshop Sponsors and Organizers

Welcome Address Tamas Eder Agriculture Ministry State Secretary, Hungary

Keynote Address Peter Dale Honorary President, International Federation of Surveyors Discussion

14:30-15.00 Coffee break

15.00 -16.30 Presentation: Political economy of land issues and sequencing of policy reforms

Chair: Gabor Remetey-Fulopp Senior Counselor, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, Hungary. Presenters: Klaus Frohberg and Peter Tillack Institute of Agricultural Development in Eastern and Central Europe, Germany Konrad Hagedorn Profesor, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

16.30 – 18.00 Presentation Policy Research Report: Key messages

Presenters: Gershon Feder Research Manager, The World Bank Klaus W. Deininger Senior Economist, The World Bank

19:00 Cocktails and Dinner

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Thursday, April 4

8:00 – 9:30 Presentation Making the Legal Basis for Private Land Rights Operational and Effective Chair: Mario Thurner Managing Director, Center of Legal Competence, Austria Presenter: Leonard Rolfes Deputy Director, Rural Development Institute, USA

Discussants Aleksei Pulin Director, Vladimir Oblast Center for Land Reform Support, Russia Vladimir Nossick Land Initiative Project, Ukraine Alexander Muravschi Consultant, Private Farmer Assistance Program, Moldova Gulmira Kuanzhanova Legal Advisor, Kazakhstan

9.30 - 11.00 Panel Discussion Farm restructuring and land ownership

Chair: USAID Representative (tbd)

Moderator Csaba Caski World Bank

Panelists Renata Yanbykh Special Adviser to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Russia Nadir Huseinbekov Director Azerbaijan Land Cadastre, Azerbaijan Gejza Blaas Director, Agriculture and Food Economics Institute, Bratislava Thomas Doucha Institute for Agriculture Economics Prague, Czech Republic

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Presentation Comparative analysis of land administration systems

Chair: John Manthorpe Former Chief Land Registrar HM Land Register Presenter Gavin Adlington International Consultant

Discussants David Egiashvili Department of Land, Russia Bozena Lipej President UNECE-WPLA; Director of Surveying and Mapping Authority, Slovenia Gabor Ponicsan Director, National Cadastre System, Hungary Joseph Salukvadze GTZ, Georgia

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:30 Country Case Studies

Chair: Kaj Barlund( Tbc) Director, Environment and Human Settlements, UNECE

Presenters: Kyrgystan: Kachkynbai Kadyrkulov Director Rural Advisory Service, Russia: Vasiliy Yakimovich Uzun Senior Economist, Agrarian Institute Georgia: Jaba Ebanoidze Director, Association for the Protection of Landowners’ Rights Ukraine: Pavlo Kulinich Director, USAID Land Titling Project, Ukraine

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17.30 – 19.00 Working Groups

19.00 Dinner

Friday, April 5

8.00-9.30 Panel Discussion Land markets and land consolidation in different contexts Chair: Kaj F. Mortensen Dep. Head of Unit, SAPARD Programmes, EU

Moderator: Zvi Lerman The Hebrew University, Israel

Panelists Alexei Overchuk Deputy Chief of Federal Land Cadastre Service, Russia Natalya Korchakova, Doina Nistor & Steve Dobrilovic Ukraine David Arsenashvili Land Market project, Georgia Christian Graefen & Fritz Rembold GTZ & Land tenure and Rural Development Officer, FAO

9.30-11.00 Presentation Improving the Functioning of Land and Financial Markets

Chair: Geoffrey Hamilton UNECE

Presenter: Laura Tuck World Bank, USA

Discussants Inesis Feiferis Latvian Mortgage and Land Bank, Latvia Manouk Vardanyan Chairman of the State Cadastral Committee of Armenia Jozsef Toth Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary Lela Shatirishvili Project Manager Land Markets, Georgia,

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Presentation Land and Property Taxation in a Framework of Decentralized Governance Chair: Helge Onsrud Former President MOLA Presenter: Enid Slack University of Toronto, Canada

Discussants Tolobek Omuraliev Minister of Local Development, Kyrgyz tan David Kirvalidze Minister for Agriculture, Georgia. Istvan Feher Hungary Agriculture University Gödöllö Paul Munro-Faure Land Tenure Services, FAO

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-18.00 VISIT TO THE HUNGARIAN CADASTRE AGENCY

19.00-20:00 Dinner

20.00 -21.30 Working groups (optional) Chairpersons: Regional staff and steering committee members

Saturday, April 6 8.30-10.00 Country Case Studies: Group II Chair: Holger Magel (tbc) President Designate, International Federation of Surveyors

Presenters: Romania: Mihai Dumitru EU Delegation, Romania Bulgaria: Diana Kopeva Institute for Market Economics, Bulgaria Albania: Katherine Kelm Legal Adviser , USA Moldova: Dorin Dumbraveanu

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10.30 –12.30 Summary of Working Groups: Recommendations and next steps

12:30-13:30 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Panel of Policy Makers David Kirvalidze Minister for Agriculture, Georgia. Tolobek Omuraliev Minister of Local Development, Kyrgyz tan Tudor Yasinschi Deputy Minster, Ministry of Agriculture, Moldova Renata Yanbykh Special Adviser to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Russia Juris Cebulis Mortgage and Land Bank, Latvia Nadir Huseinbekov Director Azerbaijan Land Cadastre

16:00 –17:00 Supporting knowledge sharing and Centers of Excellence in the region: Status and prospects Lena Heron & Marcus Winter USAID Franz Kaps World Bank Kaj F. Mortensen Dep. Head of Unit, SAPARD Programs, EU Reinhold Baeuerle & Christian Graefen GTZ Kaj Barlund & Bozena Lipej UNECE

17:00 –17:30 Official closing

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