Registrars in Bulgaria insist on establishing a property register

Registrars in Bulgaria insist on establishing a property register. The legal framework for it was adopted 17 years ago, but such register has not been introduced yet. The Union of Lawyers organized a discussion on amendments to the Cadastre and Land Register Act.

Lawyers insist on setting out the duties of registry agency registrars and laying down a detailed procedure for how to create preliminary property batches.

Desislava Ahladova, Deputy Minister of Justice: If a property register is created, the information will be more complete, it will cover a period from 1951 to date. and when citizens makes a reference, they will really have full information about the status of the property they wanted to get details about for a period of more than 50 years back.

Desislava Mihaylova, Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Registrar Judges: The main thing we want to achieve is the security with regard to property transactions.

Dimitar Tanev, Chairman of the Board of Notaries of the Notary Chamber: This means immediately, as required by the Cadastre and Land Registry Act and in its current version, of property records, of files of the property, which would make it possible to make a reliable reference.

The concept of a property register in Bulgaria was adopted in 1994, and the Cadastre and Land Registry Act in 2001, but yet such register is not in place in Bulgaria.