RGZ Confirms Land Registry Entries, 330,000 Issued
Since September 4, Serbia's Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ) has been sending citizens confirmation that their property registration is complete, by mail and through the eUprava e-mailbox.
Serbia’s Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ) introduced a new practice on September 4: once a property title is entered into the real estate cadaster, the owner now receives a separate document confirming that the job is done. Until now, registration was formally complete the moment the entry was made, and it was up to the citizen to find out whether the process had actually gone through.
The confirmation arrives two ways, by mail to the owner’s home address and electronically, through the eUprava portal’s eSanduce (e-mailbox) service. The legal basis for the registration itself has not changed: RGZ still processes each entry on the strength of a certificate issued by Serbia’s Agency for Spatial Planning and Urbanism.
RGZ explained the change this way:
“Until now, the cadaster’s job was formally finished the moment the entry was made. We recognized, though, that citizens shouldn’t have to go looking for that information and check on their own whether the process was completed. When the state finishes a registration, the citizen should know it too,” RGZ said.
The new notice applies to entries made under the legalization program known as “Svoj na svome” (roughly, “owner of your own”). According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, more than 330,000 certificates have been issued under that program so far, each of which RGZ uses as the basis for a cadaster entry.
Under the old system, an entry made with no follow-up meant that someone who had waited years to sort out their property’s legal status had no formal proof the process was truly closed, short of visiting the relevant office or checking the cadaster records themselves. The new notice shifts that check onto RGZ.
