A-11 Land Expropriation Assistance for Roads
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Regional Infrastructure Program, 2001–2005 A USAID Initiative in South East Europe Land Expropriation for Road Construction (Year 2) Albania December 2002 04.029.03 Land Expropriation Assistance for Roads Table of Contents Table of Contents CHAPTER I – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................ 1 CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION................................................................................................ 3 CHAPTER 3: PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.......................................................... 4 CHAPTER 4: LEGAL ASPECTS OF LAND EXPROPRIATION......................................... 5 4.1 REGISTRATION ISSUES ..................................................................................................... 5 4.2 NOTIFICATION ............................................................................................................... 10 4.3 EXPROPRIATION COMMISSION ....................................................................................... 11 4.4 INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT ..................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER 5: BUILDING TECHNICAL CAPACITY IN THE EXPROPRIATION DEPARTMENT .......................................................................................................................... 18 5.1 INFORMATION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION ..................................................... 18 5.2 OFFICE AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................. 18 5.3 DEVELOPMENT OF DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PROCESS FOR EXPROPRIATION DEPARTMENT................................................................................................................. 18 5.4 SELECTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF TECHNOLOGY .................................................... 19 CHAPTER 6: DIGITAL SPATIAL REFERENCING ........................................................... 20 6.1 DIGITAL ORTHOPHOTO MAPS ........................................................................................ 20 6.2 DIGITAL CONVERSION OF REGISTRATION INDEX MAPS ................................................. 20 6.3 DIGITAL SUBDIVISION PLANS ........................................................................................ 21 CHAPTER 7: EDUCATION AND TRAINING ...................................................................... 22 7.1 PROPOSED TRAINING COURSE CATALOG FOR THE EXPROPRIATION DEPARTMENT STAFF ............................................................................................................................ 22 7.2 ASSISTANCE WITH CURRICULUM UPGRADING FOR EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS.............. 22 7.3 QUALITY CONTROL FRAMEWORK.................................................................................. 22 CHAPTER 8: REVISION OF EXPROPRIATION MANUAL AND CADASTRAL ZONES ATLAS........................................................................................................................... 23 8.1. LAND EXPROPRIATION PROCEDURES MANUAL ............................................................. 23 8.2. CADASTRE ZONE ATLAS SHOWING STATUS OF FIRST REGISTRATION ........................... 23 CHAPTER 9: RECOMMENDATIONS................................................................................... 24 9.1 LEGAL RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................................................................... 24 9.2 TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................................. 25 9.3 INSTITUTIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS............................................................................. 25 USAID SEE Regional Infrastructure Program - i - Booz Allen Hamilton Land Expropriation Assistance for Roads Table of Contents ANNEXES ................................................................................................................................27 ANNEX I...................................................................................................................................... 28 ANNEX II .................................................................................................................................... 34 ANNEX III................................................................................................................................... 54 ANNEX IV................................................................................................................................... 61 ANNEX V .................................................................................................................................... 97 ANNEX VI................................................................................................................................. 205 ANNEX VII ............................................................................................................................... 238 USAID SEE Regional Infrastructure Program - ii - Booz Allen Hamilton Land Expropriation Assistance for Roads List of Tables and Figures List of Tables and Figures Figure 1: Atlas Map Figure 2: Atlas Map Figure 3: Atlas Map – Sheet 1 Figure 4: Atlas Map – Sheet 2 Figure 5: Atlas Map – Sheet 3 Figure 6: Atlas Map – Sheet 4 Figure 7: Atlas Map – Sheet 5 Figure 8: Atlas Map – Sheet 6 Figure 9: Atlas Map – Sheet 7 Figure 10: Atlas Map – Sheet 8 Figure 11: Atlas Map – Sheet 9 Figure 12: Atlas Map – Sheet 10 Figure 13: Atlas Map – Sheet 11 Figure 14: Atlas Map – Sheet 12 Figure 15: Atlas Map – Sheet 13 Figure 16: Atlas Map – Sheet 14 Figure 17: Atlas Map – Sheet 15 Figure 18: Atlas Map – Sheet 16 Figure 19: Process of Expropriation Program Figure 20: Sample of Registration Index Map Table 1: Status of First Registration along the Albanian National Highway Corridors Table 2: Quality Control Framework USAID SEE Regional Infrastructure Program - iii - Booz Allen Hamilton Land Expropriation Assistance for Roads Executive Summary CHAPTER I – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Activity A-11 under the Regional Infrastructure Program (RIP) Albania assisted the Government of Albania to improve the processes used to acquire land for the facilitation of the construction and reconstruction of roads in the National Roads Network. The Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications (MoTT) is responsible for acquiring land and uses several institutions and organizations to determine the land boundaries, identify and notify the owners of the intention to expropriate the land, prepare the relevant documentation, evaluate the land, approve the acquisition and compensate the owners. The present processes can be improved and made more efficient through improvements to the legislation (laws and regulations), compliance with existing legislation, introduction of technology, and improvements in the institutional arrangement including academic, public and private institutions. The tasks carried out under Activity A-11 assisted the Expropriation Department of the General Roads Directorate (GRD) with ways and means to resolve these issues. The existing expropriation legislation was reviewed and several recommendations are presented that if implemented, will improve the functioning of the laws. A procedures manual to guide the staff of the Expropriation Department and others who perform expropriation activities was prepared and later updated to ensure that standard procedures and processes are followed by all stakeholders. The Expropriation Department focused its energies on identifying the properties for expropriation, determining the physical size and shape of the properties, and presenting the information to the Expropriation Commission for approval to expropriate and to provide compensation to the owners. A final step in completing and formalizing the transfer of the ownership rights from the landowner to the state is the registration of the property in the Immovable Property Registration System (IPRS). This step has not been taken for any properties that have been expropriated for roads construction and rehabilitation anywhere in Albania. Expropriation for road related works commenced in 1994 and to date it is estimated that approximately 7,000 properties have been expropriated and are unregistered. In some cases, such as for the road between Tirana and Vore, the documentation that is needed as evidence that legal expropriation took place is missing. Activity A-11 addressed the issue of non-registration of the properties and assisted the Expropriation Department to develop procedures to correct the situation. Special procedures were developed and a joint order between the IPRS and the MoTT to implement the procedures was formalized. Two pilot projects were prepared and implemented to define and to demonstrate a process to clear up the backlog of unregistered properties and to legalize the transfer ownership rights to the state. One pilot site was selected in an area where all the necessary documents to provide evidence of legal expropriation could be located and presented to the IPRS for registration. A second site was selected for an area where the legal documentation is missing and other means of creating evidence were introduced. The A-11 team developed digital map products that showed the road and where it overlapped the old road and any areas that it crossed sections of private property. These digital products were created by combining aerial photography and the USAID SEE Regional Infrastructure Program - 1 - Booz Allen Hamilton Land Expropriation Assistance for Roads Executive Summary Registration