Encroached land settlement

The Ministry of National Economy and Finance intends to bring changes to the law on encroached property, so as to facilitate those who have legal or perceived titles to public estates and the exception of those who have erected arbitrary buildings without a building permit, and which they have not legalized.

Under the original law, the condition for acquiring a plot of land on which there was a building was possession for 30 or 40 years (as the case may be), with the additional condition that the property had been erected either by the end of 1981, or by the end of 1991 (also depending on the case).

With the changes that are being promoted, the time limitations of the construction and essentially of the existence of the buildings are deleted.

The new provision that will soon be tabled in the Parliament will provide that: Anyone who, at the time of entry into...