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The document has been drafted by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development.
The implementation of the programme aims to harmonise land property relations while preserving a balance of interests, mutual responsibility and coordinated efforts by the state, business and society.
The objectives of the programme for a transition to an innovative socially-oriented type of economic development in the Russian Federation are as follows:
- to merge the Unified State Register of Real Estate Titles and Contracts and the State Cadastre of Real Estate to form a unified state information resource;
- to ensure services on “one stop shop” basis and to move towards a public assessment of service quality;
- to increase the data quality of the databases so as to provide investment attractiveness and raise the efficiency of real estate taxation.
The рrogramme envisions, among other things, the following targets to be reached by 2019:
- information on 100% of real estate to be available in the State Real Estate Cadastre, the United Real Estate Title and Contracts Register (the Unified State Real Estate Register);
- the introduction of a single state register of real estate and a transition to a single geocentrical open system of coordinates for the whole of the Russian Federation (83 constituent entities);
- increasing the proportion of services on state title and cadastre registration available online from 5% to 70%;
- reducing the time for state title registration from 20 to 7 days; for cadastre real estate registration from 20 to 5 days;
- cutting customer waiting time from 60 to 10 minutes.
The bodies responsible for planning and implementing measures, and targeted and effective use of budget funds are the Russian Ministry of Economic Development; the State Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography; the Federal Tax Service of Russia, the Federal Agency for State Property Management; the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation.
The draft resolution was approved at the Russian Government meeting of 3 October 2013.