The European Land Registry Association (ELRA) is an international non-profit association whose mission and primary purpose is “the development and understanding of the role of land registration in real property and capital markets”.ELRA web
/ref> ELRA was born on 2004 to defend the interest of land registries in the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

. Initially it started off with 12 members and it now has 30 organizations representing the land registries of 22 Member States.

History

ELRA Board of Director

ELRA's internal organisation includes the following organs: * General Assembly * President * Secretary General * Treasurer

Projects

CROBECO

IMOLA

The project aims to produce a model for standardised

land registry Land registration is any of various systems by which matters concerning ownership, possession, or other rights in land are formally recorded (usually with a government agency or department) to provide evidence of title, facilitate transactions, a ...

output, connected to explanatory material in different languages, and to provide training to improve understanding of the different legal systems involved. The European Land Registry Association (ELRA) will work closely with other associations and networks working in this area. It will use the resources of ELRA's European Land Registry Network (ELRN) and build on the experience gained from

EULIS The European Land Information Service (EULIS) provides direct access to official land registers in Europe. EULIS is owned by a consortium of member countries with expertise in the area of land registration, most of which are government organisati ...

’s Project LINE (a project which aims to facilitate compliance with the requirements of the e-Justice programme in the area of land registration).
The objective is to increase the accessibility and transparency of land registry information and to facilitate the registration of cross-border documents. Varied legislation and practices of Land Registries hamper the exchange of information between them and the registration of cross border documents. Any standard model has to take into account fundamental differences in national organisation. However, common points offer the possibility of defining a structure of key information shared by the majority of Land Registry systems.

References

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External links

Webpage
Land registration Pan-European trade and professional organizations