A Legal Cadastral Domain Model
During the last decade numerous attempts have been made to describe and discuss the cadastral domain on both national and international level. In this paper the term “legal cadastral domain” is used as a common term for laws and regulations regulating the content of traditional cadastre, multipurpose cadastre and land register storing legal real property information, regardless of any national differentiation between these registers. A problem towards description of the domain is that real property and cadastre are not homogeneous and standardised terms and different definitions are presented by several authors, see e.g. (FIG, 1995); (Kaufman and Steudler, 1998); (Silva and Stubkjaer, 2002). Such standardisation efforts are in addition primarily orientated towards technical storage environment of cadastre and other (software) solutions, but have, in my opinion, minor focus on legal aspects, even if the importance of the legal cadastral domain has been addressed by several authors, e.g. (Lemmen et al, 2003) and (Kaufman and Steudler, 1998). So, surprisingly little has been done to describe the legal issues of standardisation of real property information and cadastre.
Land Administration and Cadastral Systems in support ofSustainable Land Governance
All countries have to deal with the management of land. They have to deal with the four functions of land tenure, land value, land use, and land development in some way or another. National capacity may be advanced and combine the activities in one conceptual framework supported by sophisticated ICT models. More likely, capacity will involve very fragmented and basically analogue approaches. Different countries will also put varying emphasis on each of the four functions, depending on their cultural basis and level of economic development.
El Catastro en Portugal
Esta presentación no es más que una visión personal y parcial de la problemática catastral en Portugal. Así, mis primeras palabras están dedicadas a una corta presentación del Instituto Geográfico Portugués (IGP), recientemente creado, para seguir hablando de la situación del Catastro predial en Portugal, de la estructura de los datos catastrales y, por fin, de algunos mecanismos de coordinación entre los principales organismos e instituciones más directamente relacionadas con la propiedad inmobiliaria, entre los cuales se encuentra, además del IGP, las Conservadurias del Registro Predial y las Notarias (Ministerio de Justicia), la Dirección General de los Impuestos (Ministerio de Hacienda), el Ministerio de Agricultura, las Entidades Locales y, naturalmente, los Propietarios. Veamos: 1. El IGP, creado a partir del DecretoLey n.° 8/2002 de 9/1, es resultado de la fusión entre el Centro Nacional de Informa-