European Property Rights and Wrongs - Diana Wallis MEP
European Property Rights and Wrongs - Diana Wallis MEP
European Property Rights and Wrongs - Diana Wallis MEP
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Practical solutions to the challenges of cross-border work are also being provided<br />
by organisations such as Eurogeographics 39 who represent the work of Member<br />
States organisations, such as cadastre maps across many states, <strong>and</strong> Ordnance<br />
Survey in the UK, in mapping l<strong>and</strong>, boundaries <strong>and</strong> information relating to it, to<br />
achieve harmonisation of working <strong>and</strong> information sharing. <strong>European</strong> initiatives<br />
such as INSPIRE aim to provide for a single EU-wide source of spatial information so<br />
that a conveyancer in Cardiff could search a plot of l<strong>and</strong> in Portugal <strong>and</strong> find out<br />
its boundaries, whether there were zones applying to it, its proximity to a road, etc.<br />
The recent launch of the Europe Union’s e-Justice portal 40 , which was the<br />
subject of a resolution in the <strong>European</strong> Parliament 41 , will ultimately make access<br />
to justice much easier for many issues. Its continued development should<br />
increase the availability of legal advice for citizens, from the simple find-a-notary<br />
scheme, to the specifics of foreign law <strong>and</strong> legal systems. Likewise, the work of<br />
the <strong>European</strong> L<strong>and</strong> Registry <strong>and</strong> the pilot CROBECO project which will do even<br />
more to get legal professionals working together cross-border to ensure that the<br />
purchaser buys what he would expect to buy in his own system.<br />
The Iberjuris project<br />
Mr Xavier Ibarrondo 42 Vice President of the Belgian network of Eurojuris, a leading<br />
<strong>European</strong> wide legal professional network, introduces their framework <strong>and</strong><br />
in particular the Iberjuris project aiming to improve transactions for EU citizens in<br />
the Iberian Peninsula.<br />
EUROJURIS international was established in 1980 across Europe <strong>and</strong> is the number<br />
one group of <strong>European</strong> lawyers’ chambers today. It has a presence in 610<br />
different towns <strong>and</strong> in 18 countries.<br />
39 Eurogeographics www.eurogeographics.org<br />
40 https://e-justice.europa.eu/<br />
41 <strong>European</strong> Parliament resolution of 18 December 2008 with recommendations to the<br />
Commission on e-Justice (2008/2125(INI))<br />
42 Mr Xavier Ibarrondo Vice President of Eurojuris Belgium www.eurojuris.net<br />
Extract from speech given to the ALDE <strong>European</strong> Parliament Seminar held on June 14<br />
translated from French<br />
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