Official surveying procedure

Land register surveying is carried out in two fundamentally independent procedural steps:

Boundary determination and marking

During boundary determination, the boundaries are determined on site using the existing boundary points or other documents. The established boundaries are pegged by the commissioned surveyor-engineer and published in accordance with the statutory publication procedure. Once the pegging has become legally effective, the boundary markers are marketed. The work steps of pegging and marking are accompanied and monitored by the surveying commission, which is made up of representatives of the municipality.

The municipalities are responsible for carrying out the boundary determination and marking in consultation with the government. One quarter of the costs are borne by the municipality and three quarters by the landowners.

Boundary demarcation and marking has now been completed nationwide.

Surveying

Once surveying has been completed, the property boundaries and other spatial information that forms the content of the plan for the Land Register Division are re-measured by the engineer surveyor. The surveying work is continuously checked and verified by the verification authority. Once the resurvey has been completed, the plan for the Land Register and other extracts from the cadastral survey data prepared for Land Register Division purposes are published. After completion of the publication procedure, the government approves the data and extracts, in particular the plan for the Land Register Division. The newly surveyed properties are entered in the Land Register Division.

The government or the Civil Engineering and Geoinformation Office, to which the government has delegated the management, coordination and technical supervision, is responsible for carrying out the surveys. The costs of the survey are borne by the state.