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Ministry of Rural Development

Ministry >> Land affairs

Land Administration and Geoinformation in Hungary

The Hungarian lands and mapping organisation is supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The supervisory body for civilian national mapping and land affairs in Hungary is the Ministry's Department of Land Administration and Geoinformation (DLAG). The tasks of the organisation are carried out by the following institutional network (Fig. 1.):
  • Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI) as governmental organisation with nation-wide competence,
  • 19 County Land Offices (CLO) and the Budapest Land Office as governmental organisations with territorial competence,
  • 118 District Land Offices (DLO) and 3 Capital Districts Land Offices as governmental organisations with territorial competence,
  • Office for National Cadastral Programme as a non-profit organisation.
Department of Land Administration and Geoinformation (DLAG)
The Department of Land Administration and Geoinformation is responsible for the general and specific supervision, regulation, monitoring and completing of governmental duties concerning land registration, land surveying, mapping, remote sensing, land tenure policy (land use, land consolidation) and supervising of the implementation. DLAG is divided into three divisions with the following main responsibilities:
  • Division of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation: tasks relating to control point networks, national cadastral and topographic maps as well as regulations and rules on national mapping, surveying and geoinformation. Technical upgrade of the land offices IT development, control of Land Parcel Identification System for IACS, support of the planning and implementation of various international co-operations, remote sensing applications and developments on spatial data infrastructure (SDI) through nationwide networking.
  • Division of Land Registration: land and property registration, land area data supply, legal measures pertaining to DLAG that revises the appeals against land office decisions.
  • Division of Land Protection and Land Use: tasks relating to licensing of non-agricultural use of croplands, supervision of land use registration and land classification, control of utilisation obligation of croplands, support of land restoration and land use as well as judgement of applications on subsidized land consolidation.

Attached documents:
Istitutional network (PDF)