The Concept and Features of Cadastral Activity

Abstract

The article is devoted to the theoretical substantiation of cadastral activity as a legal category, which will further contribute to an in-depth understanding of this phenomenon and protection of the rights of owners and land users of land plots as objects of such activity. The article argues that the implementation of land cadastral activities involves active actions of authorized bodies, whose competence is also related to the implementation of cadastral activities and ensuring the functions of the State Land Cadastre. It is concluded that land cadastral activity can be considered an act of manifestation of legally defined, scientifically justified actions aimed at ensuring the technical, production and management activities of the relevant entities, which include public authorities and local governments, research institutions, land management organizations, etc., aimed at maintaining the land cadastre, organization and implementation of land cadastral works. It is substantiated that the maintenance of land cadastre, which should be considered as a complete information base, which contains information on the purpose and use, quantitative and qualitative characteristics of land, due to the objective needs of society in obtaining accurate and reliable information about land as a source of material goods and object property rights and taxation. Based on the analysis of legislative norms on cadastral activity in Ukraine, it is argued that the land cadastral system should additionally include information on resources that for some reason were left without an owner, or have errors in design; plots that have an owner, but are not used or inefficiently used in economic activities. This will allow to form a multilevel structure of the land market, increase the efficiency of state management of land resources in the country. The methodology of research of essence and signs of land cadastral activity is based on provisions of the general scientific dialectical method of scientific knowledge. In addition, formal-legal and formal-logical methods were used for full and comprehensive disclosure of the research topic.