The Federal Registration Service also invited Andrei Filipenko, the Director-General of the National Cadastre Agency of the State Committee on Property, together with the Chairman of the State Committee on Property, to participate in the conference from the Belarusian side.
The Head of the National Cadastral Agency also made a presentation on the theme: “The system of cadastral valuation of lands in the Republic of Belarus”.
Andrei Gaev highlighted in his statement to the Conference: ”The development and introduction of new technologies is designed to ensure the improvement of economic and production processes, labor productivity, quality of services, saving of socially useful time, and, in the long term, reduce the cost of goods and services. And in these conditions, information technologies and digital transformation are not only the main change agents but the main condition for competitiveness at the level of individual enterprises and at the level of countries as a whole“.
The Chairman of the State Committee on Property said that a wide range of information resources and systems, the main ones of which are resources of republican significance, have been currently created in the branch entrusted to him, they are functioning and developing as part of the implementation of the State program for the development of the digital economy and information society for 2016–2020.
With regard to the digital transformation of services in a specific area of state registration of rights and cadastral registration of real estate, 2 basic state information resources were created in 15 years of development of this system: The Common State Register of Real Estate, Rights to It and Transactions with It (Real Estate Register), which allows to provide information through a nationwide automated information system and a mobile application, and the Address Register of the Republic of Belarus, containing information about addresses of developed land plots, capital construction (with the exception of linear structures) of isolated premises and parking places, as well as more than two dozen electronic services were introduced.
The Chairman of the State Committee on Property of the Republic of Belarus said: ”In particular, the Real Estate Register contains information on 7 million 921 thousand real estate objects, according to our expert estimates, that is more than 85% of all real estate objects located in the Republic of Belarus. The Real Estate Register is used more than 22 million times in the year. At the same time, the normative period for the provision of state property registration services and rights to it has significantly decreased in Belarus (from 14 days in 2003 to 5 days nowadays ) with an annual increase of applications by 20%. At the same time, a third of all applications (29%) on state registration services in Belarus are rendered within 1 hour, and the average time for their provision of services is no more than 3 days“.
The widespread using of information technology and the predominant accumulation of data in digital form, including the evolutionary refusal to keep paper archives of documents, allowed the system of state registration of rights and property accounting in the Republic of Belarus to work well not only at the level of the Republic of Belarus but also at the international level. According to the “Registration of Rights” indicator of the “Doing Business” rating, the Republic of Belarus is consistently in the TOP 10 countries since 2009.
Speaking about the main directions of digital transformation of public services in the field of state cadastral registration and real estate registration for the near future, Andrei Gaev told about plans in the system of the State Committee on Property to develop information technologies based on cloud computing, using the capabilities of the republican cloud platform, geographic information systems, including expanding the functionality of the public cadastral map, carrying out work in developing spatial data infrastructure, developing and using decision support systems, including the use of intelligent systems at a conference in Moscow.
In the opinion of the Chairman of the State Committee on Property, an important area of work will also be the integration of the state registration system with the subsystems of the state automated information system to ensure a single point of application for state services in the field of state registration of real estate and rights to it. Andrei Gaev says: ”We will challenge ourselves to integrate about 75% of such services until the end of 2020. We also plan to pay considerable attention to the consideration of the technology of the register of distributed transactions (Blockchain) and the possibility of its use in the system of state registration of rights and cadastral registration of real estate“. Also, the Chairman of the State Committee on Property expressed confidence that the tasks, facing the Republic of Belarus in the field of digital transformation, will be successfully completed despite their complexity.
