Twinning Project for the Agency of Land Relations and Cadastre (ALRC) - Organization,
Streamlining and Computerization Process in Mapping in the Republic of Moldova
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Abbreviations
ALRC
CIB
DCFTA
EC
ENP
ENPI
EuropeAid
EU
EUD
GIS
GoM
IOS
LIS
MoU
MS
MSPL
MRDC
NGIS
NIP 2011 - 2013
NSDI
PAO
PCA
PPA
PPP
RTA
SE
STE
TNA
ToR
TTSIB
Agency of Land Relations and Cadastre
Comprehensive Institution Building Programme
Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area
European Commission
European Neighbourhood Policy
European Neighbourhood Policy Instrument
European Commission Aid Programme
European Union
Delegation of the European Union to Moldova
Geographic Information System
Government of Moldova
International Organization for Standardization
Land Information System
Memorandum of Understanding
Member State
Member State Project Leader
Ministry of Regional Development and Construction (of Moldova)
National Geographic Information System
National Indicative Programme 2011 - 2013
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
Programme Administration Office
Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
Public Property Agency
Public Private Partnership
Resident Twinning Adviser
State Enterprise
Short - Term Experts
Training Needs Analysis
Terms of Reference
Twinning, TAIEX, SIGMA, Institution Building
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Basic Information
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1.2
Programme : ENP National Action Programme 2011
Twinning Number: MD/13/ENP/OT/15
1.3
Title: "Twinning Project for the Agency of Land Relations and Cadastre (ALRC) Organization, Streamlining and Computerization Process in Mapping in the Republic of
Moldova”.
1.4
Location: Chisinau, Moldova
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Sector: Regional Development
1.6
Beneficiary Country: Republic of Moldova
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Duration: 24 months
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Objectives
2.1 Overall Objective
The overall objective is increased public investment in the national and local infrastructure and
improved business climate, as emphasized in the National Development Strategy for the
Republic of Moldova for 2020 through improved management of geographical data.
2.2 Project Purpose
The purpose is an improved mapping system in line with the EU standards and best
international practices of management of geographical data.
2.3
Contribution to National Development Plan/Cooperation agreement/Association
Agreement/Action Plan
Moldova is now engaged in a far-reaching economic reform programme, both in terms of
domestic policy and international relations, more particularly with the EU. In line with the
Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the Republic of Moldova and the EU,
the mapping system appears to be an indispensable tool for implementing and enforcing at least
four groups of policy issues: fighting the deterioration of the environment, transport, regional
development, and tourism (art. 61, 62, 67 and 69 of the PCA1).
In line with these provisions, the country has built since 2006 a track record of intense activity
to harmonize its laws and regulation with the EU Acquis. The main assistance projects, which
1
Document
reference:
98/401/EC,
ECSC,
Euratom,
available
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:1998:181:0001:0002:EN:PDF
in:
http://eur-
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have played or are going to play a major source of commitment at this stage, are in addition to
the afore mentioned PCA, the EU - Moldova Action Plan, which is still in the process of
implementation (it is a seven-year Action Plan covering the years 2007 - 2013). Furthermore,
negotiations on an EU - Moldova Association Agreement were launched on January 12, 2010.
This agreement will supersede the PCA. It will significantly deepen Moldova’s political
association and economic integration with the EU, relying on a strong degree of regulatory
approximation. Negotiations for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) were
launched and the negotiations, its seventh round took place during the month of June 2013. In
order to cope with the challenges derived from DCFTA an improved management of
geographical data is required.
The Republic of Moldova is now seeking to implement its programme of economic
development based on its National Development Strategy. The Government's Programme for
2011-2014 has referred to the e-governance as priority area towards economic integration with
the European Union. Out of 7 priorities, as laid down by this Strategy, two of them at least have
an obvious linkage with the mapping system; namely: (i) Priority 2. Increasing public
investment in the national and local road infrastructure, in order to reduce transportation costs
and increase the speed of access.
(ii) Priority 4. Improving the business climate by
streamlining the regulatory framework and applying information technologies in public services
for businesses and citizens.
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3.1
Description
Background and Justification
The Agency of Land Relations and Cadastre (ALRC) is a public authority carrying out
execution, control, supervising, and other functions in the field of land relations, geodesy,
mapping, cadastre and Geographic Information System (GIS) activities, and to some extent
Land Information System (LIS) activities also, both of them building up the structure of the socalled National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) of the country.
The ARLC contributes to implementing the provisions of the on-going Government Programme
2011-2014 that includes:
(i) Implementing a shared platform across Government to consolidate the existing data
centres;
(ii) Transforming Government processes to increase public administration efficiency
through the use of Information and Communication Technology;
(iii) Developing electronic services for citizens and business; and
(iv) Adopting an e-Governance regulatory framework according to international best
practices, including opening governmental data to its citizens and business.
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Functions and role assigned to ALRC
When it comes to land relations, the corresponding group of tasks of ALRC includes land
management with special reference to updating of land records, proper recording of land rights
and speedy resolution of conflicts and disputes relating to land. The concept of land relations is
therefore closely linked to land cadastre. The latter tool includes cartographic details of the
ownership, the tenure, the precise location, the dimensions the cultivation (if rural), and the rule
of individual parcel of land. The types of activities that the ALRC carries out take place at the
level either of the Republic of Moldova in whole, at the level or Raion (region) or at the level
of Localitate (local government). Those are composed (by virtue of the law on territorial
administration No 764, dated 27.12.2001 of 32 Raioni, 3 Municipii2 (municipalities), of comunei
(communes), of sectoru (small towns) and of 1.548 Satii (villages). All these localitate build up
the territory of the country.
To carry out its tasks, ALRC has the following organisation.
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Administrative organization of ALRC
Three main Departments in ALRC play the most important role in terms of management, of
production and of updating of geographical data in addition to other units specializing in
business administration. They do not have a large number of staff (approximately 40
employees) contrary to their four implementing State Enterprises. The three main Departments
are as follows.
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Land Relations and Soil Protection Department. Among its tasks relating to GIS , one
should note that it ensures executive projects development activities, degraded land
rehabilitation, rehabilitation, planting and management of forest shelterbelts. It also
reviews the development of projects of agricultural land consolidation., and it monitors
the subordinated enterprises activity in the files of degraded land development.
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Geodesy, Mapping and Geo-informatics Department. Its functions are to coordinate ,
geodetic and mapping activities, ensuring implementation of state policy in the field of
geodesy, mapping, photogrammetric surveys, GIS and engineering survey.
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The Real Estate Cadastre Department. It has the responsibility of coordination,
collection, storage of land cadastre and real estate cadastre information and promotion
of the state policy and strategy in the field of land cadastre and real estate cadastre, as
well as action plan development.
The decisions and policies of these Departments are implemented by four State Enterprises,
which are the following.
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Chisinau, Tiraspol, Balti.
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State Enterprise “Cadastru”. This State Enterprise was founded on April 1st, 2006 and it
has approximately 1083 employees working in 39 territorial subdivisions. Its main
activities are the creation and the maintenance of the cadastre of real estate property,
the implementation of the State Programme for valuation of real estate property objects
for fiscal purposes, and the maintenance and administration of real property central
data base.
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State Enterprise Institute “INGEOCAD”. It was founded in 1978 and is the leading
enterprise of survey, geological engineering survey and mapping with approximately its
97 employees. The Institute’s main activities include: geodetic and engineering
geodetic activities; mapping and photogrammetric work for provision of users with
different scale maps, having various thematic purposes; cadastral work, state frontier
delimitation; etc. In terms of mapping, the following achievements have been realized:
Chisinau city electronic maps, 1:200,000 scale digital topographic map of Moldova;
Moldova administrative map; outlines of the towns Chisinau, Balti, Orhei, Comrat, road
map of Moldova 1;250,000 etc. In cooperation with European Association of Mapping
the Cadastre Agencies, EuroGeographics, and through ALRC, S.E. INGEOCAD takes
part in the development and update of certain European digital maps.
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State Enterprise Planning Institute of Land Management “IPOT”. Founded in 1961, it is
the oldest enterprise in the branch with approximately 142 employees. Today, IPOT is
the leading organization in the Moldova in the field of land management. Its revised
status dates back to the Governmental Regulation No 166 of February 24, 1997. In the
area of planning, IPOT carries out i.a. the following activities: agricultural land
consolidation schemes; public property land delimitation means; identification,
inventory of state property agricultural land stocktaking for registration purposes; public
property land delimitation and their registration in the register of real estate property;
etc.
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State Enterprise “Soil Protection and Land Improvement”. Founded on June 23 , 1997,
working in 12 state territorial units with a total staff of around 228 employees, this state
enterprise aims at organizing and coordinating works in the field of soil protection and
restoration, and their production increase. Each of the 12 state territorial subordinated
bodies has its own equipment, machines and special mechanisms, which are necessary
for the construction of the hydro technical tools that are needed for the construction of
erosion-preventive places.
Current shortcomings that make it difficult for ALRC to efficiently carry out its
tasks
Although ALRC has been making special efforts to administer generation, updating, and
distribution of spatial information, there still exist issues such as unclear data sharing policy,
redundancy of spatial data, and lack of spatial data for decision support and crisis management,
and lower awareness of spatial information.
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A national GIS committee, a coordination mechanism to improve the communication between
the institutions involved in geographic information system and NSDI was established in 2002.
However, its activities are very limited, and this is probably due to the lack of awareness for
both the users and providers to share their own data.
Accessibility to spatial data for users across the government, international donors and
supporting agencies is inadequate. There are no concrete national policies or standards for the
use, production and management of spatial data. Despite the situation, many users need spatial
data in areas including agriculture, land administration, land management, land use planning,
forestry and water resource management. Ministries, donor agencies and NGOs are eager to use
aerial photos, orthophotos, topographic maps and existing thematic maps for these purposes.
ALRC has started Geo-Portal in a way which is consistent with the objectives laid down i.a. in
the EU INSPIRE strategy based on the EU Inspire Directive 2007/23 (see www.geoportal.md
and the Decree No 731 dated August 5, 1997). However the Moldovan Geoportal does not
function yet as a common database for the storage and dissemination of all national base themes
of spatial data such as roads, administration boundaries, geographical names, land use, cadastre
and topography, although most agencies have unofficially obtained copies of these data4. On the
contrary, the users of geographic data, either professional or casual, would expect the Moldovan
Geoportal, or its NSDI, to search and access the data they need. The data, which is produced in
the framework of Geoportal, must be produced by the users themselves and put at the disposal
of other possible groups of users of geographical data, which is not the case. This situation
prevents Moldova from relying upon a tool that can avoid duplicated efforts in geographical
data, inconsistencies, delays, confusion and wasted resources. To put it in a nutshell, there is
no national policy for coordinate system adaption, thus different agencies manage their data in
different reference system.
ALRC is positioned as a national coordinating organization of spatial data use, production, and
management. Unfortunately, it is difficult to say that ALRC manages well with other spatial
information users on the present use of the spatial data. Multiple agencies are using
unauthorized spatial data through mutual data sharing. Accordingly, the credibility of the spatial
data becomes much less reliable than ALRC expects. Appropriate distribution system of the
spatial data is not constructed between Ministries, even among departments within the same
Ministries. It is no doubt that many agencies do not have high expertise in GIS&LIS and are
lacking also human resources.
As described above, the Government of Moldova has the following difficulties concerning
construction of GIS & LIS and its implementation:
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INSPIRE is an EU initiative, originally based on the EU Directive 2007 / 2 of establishing an
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the EU (INSPIRE) with a view to ensuring an infrastructure
for spatial information that helps make spatial or geographical data more accessible and
interoperable for a wide range of purposes supporting economic development.
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See for Geoportal the following decree: Hotarire Nr 731 din 5.8.1997 cu privire la aprobrea
Regulamentului Fondului Caryografo-Geodezic de Stat al Republicii Moldova (published in the
Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova No 66, dated 9 October 1997.
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Lack of data sharing among governmental, academic, and the related organizations;
Lack of function of coordination body for a national GIS;
Lack of human resources;
Lack of standards of spatial data;
Lack of budget for development and/or maintenance of spatial information;
Lack of communication between private and government sectors on spatial information;
Inexperience of management and operation of web-services, such as geo-portal.
Justification for the Twinning project
The Government of Moldova is aware that the above listed difficulties should be overcome.
This is particularly true when it comes to catch up with other members of EuroGeographics, in
order to ensure reliability and usefulness on spatial information. Therefore, it has recently
acknowledged on many occasions that the spatial information is essential to facilitate the public
services and to support economic and social development. The Twining project should provide
support to ALRC so that it may construct, manage and update a mapping system at a large,
medium and small scale that is secure, unitary, integrated and cost efficient.
These fourfold expected characteristics of the mapping system of the country are very close to
the methods used within the EU by the well-known mapping system based on the “INSPIRE”
system for spatial information. Although Moldova is not a candidate country for EU accession,
the INSPIRE mechanism is considered by the ALRC as an appealing instrument for ensuring
sound and cost efficient conditions of management and dissemination of geographic data
nationwide. Its methods may facilitate establishing in the country a cost-efficient and user
driven national Geographical Information System (GIS) at small or medium cartographic scale
and a set of regional Land Information System (LIS) at a larger scale.
3.2
Linked activities in connection with external international and domestic initiatives
In its strong desire to embark upon the completion of a Geoportal and of a NSDI complying
with European best practices as recommended in the EU INSPIRE strategy, the Government of
Moldova and more particularly the ARLC have benefited or are about to benefit of the
assistance of the following assistance projects. Any overlap with on-going actions will be
avoided.
Not only Norway and Japan have provided assistance to ARLC, but also, although at a smaller
scale other countries and international professional organisations:
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It is worth to firstly mention that the First Cadastre Project has been implemented in
Moldova between 1998 and 2009. Thanks to the cooperation with the World Bank and
of other international donors, the Republic of Moldova is now fitted with a unified
system of real estate registration. The project was also sustained by a number of grants
given by bilateral donors, such as Japan (1996-1997), Sweden (1998-2009), Norway
(1998; 2007-2008), Switzerland (1997-2002) and USAID (1997-2002).
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The ARLC has also cooperated with the International Federation of Surveyors<
International Institution for the History of Surveying and Measurement and geodetic
services of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and
Ukraine in the framework of "Struve Geodetic Arc – UNESCO World Heritage"
project. As a consequence of this cooperation in 2005 "RUDY" geodetic station of
Struve Arc was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List5.
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ALRC is also in a process of cooperation with Norway and the Norwegian Mapping and
Cadastre Agency "Statens Kartverk". Moldova and its ALRC produced orthophotos and
line maps in the overall framework of the grant given in 2009 for the project "Moldova
– Line Maps for Development" that aims at (i) Providing access to reliable and up-todate line maps for public and private sector, and (ii) Establishment of a system for costeffective utilisation of satellite based GPS. As a result of this cooperation, there were
performed the aerial photography of the national territory and created orthophoto maps
that serve as up-to-date cartographic base for national economy branches development.
The orthophotos that were produced to date (for approximately 5,000 km², i.e. 20 % of
the national territory) represent an excellent cartographic basis for production of
cadastral maps and for improving quality in cadastre. Norway is likely to resume its
assistance after October 2012 in order to cover the whole territory of Moldova with
orthophotos. Taking care of the recent floods, ALRC has asked Norway for
modification of its project in order to create elevation model (10 cm accuracy) via aerial
laser scanning for flooded territories.
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Since 2000, Moldova through the ALRC is a full members of the following
international organisations in the field of cartography: (i) Global Spatial Data
Infrastructure (GSDI), which financed the technical for GSDI / Global Mapping Project;
(ii) European Association of national Mapping and Cadastre Agencies Eurographics,
which financed the technical assistance for the first Permanent Station in the Republic
of Moldova Igeo Chisinau.
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As regards Japan, it signed in 2010 an agreement with ALRC. Its assistance goal is to
create a digital base mapping for all the territory of Moldova at the scale of 1:50,000. It
will help the creation of a national GIS with 10 layers representing administrative
boundaries, geographical names, elevation, transport network, hydrographical networks
and river basins, elevation, etc.
With the financial backing of the World Bank, Moldova has embarked upon three projects in
the field of environmental protection and hence with thematic mapping information. Those are
as follows.
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Development and protection of municipal forests (“Proiectul dezvoltarea sectorului
forestier communal în Moldova”) for an amount of 13,61 Million US $ for the period
26 May 2009 – 31 December 2014.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1187
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Prevention of natural disasters and consequences of climate change (“Proiectul
managementul dezastrelor si riscurilor climatice în Moldova”). This is a project that
started on 10 November 2010 and will terminate on 30 September 2014 for a total
amount of 10 million US $.
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Conservation and rehabilitation of soil quality in Moldova (“Proiectul de conservare a
solului din Moldova”). This project has a budget of 5,44 million US $ and is covering
the period 16 June 2009 up to 31 December 2015.
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World Bank funded project in the field of public administration reform (“Proiectul de at
refoMoldovaa administratiei publice din Moldova”). This project began on July 11,
2006 and ended on 31 December 2012.
With financial backing of the European Union:
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EU supported Twinning project “Capacity building in regional development”. This
project involving France (as the lead EU Twinning partner country) and Romania has
officially began in May 2012 and will end up on January 2014. Its main beneficiary is
the Moldovan Ministry of Regional Development and Construction (MRDC). This
project has three components, all three having a very probable link with GIS as their
will deal with the operational procedures of the National Fund for Regional
Development (component 1), with the preparation of a programme of a regional
development planning system (component 2) and with the development of an activity
plan for the elaboration of the National Strategy for Regional Development 2013 – 2015
(component 3).
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As regards the construction of its National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NDSI) on should
note that the ARLC is cooperating with the TAIEX assistance programme. Several
exchange of data with some EU Member States have taken place. The most recent one
is the study visit on Planning Management of National Mapping and Surveying that
took place in Finland in February 2012 or the scheduled workshop on Spatial Data
Infrastructure for Economic Development that took place in Chisinau 24/25 October
2013.
The approximation towards the EU INSPIRE directive already started and the Twinning project
is aimed at contributing to the previous efforts in this direction.
3.3.
Expected Results
There will be four mandatory results.
3.3.1 Result 1 – Geographic data umbrella law is drafted in line with the EU INSPIRE
requirements
- Rationale
The concept of "umbrella law" aims at facilitating sustainable management, free dissemination
and smooth update of geo-referenced data to all users and providers of spatial data.
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Characteristics of Result 1
For the recent past few years, the Moldovan Government has shown its keen interest for the
ways and means on how the EU is managing geographical dada with the view to establishing a
mapping system in each EU Member State that is secure, unitary, integrated and cost-efficient.
This is why the Government of Moldova and the ALRC are considering approximating towards
the INSPIRE organisation for the management of geo-referenced data, as originally based on
the EU Directive 2007 / 2 of the European parliament and of the Council. The fact is that, as
already previously underlined, Moldova has a mere piecemeal or even poor regulatory
approach for the use, the supply, the dissemination and the update of geographical data in
favour of organisations or institutions which need specific geographical “data” in order to
transforming them into their own “information”.
Therefore, a general draft or a draft “umbrella legislation” has to be prepared and enacted for
clarifying and regulating the management, the use and the updating of geographical data. This
general piece of legislative work shall aim at approximating towards the EU INSPIRE system,
and therefore towards the E-Government, which is now an official objective pursued by
Moldovan public authorities.
3.3.2
Result 2: An effective regional GIS with several groups of participants is set up
in line with EU best practices
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Rationale
Regional GIS should reinforce the implementation of the National GIS.
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Characteristics of result 2
A large component of the NSDI deals with the availability of a National GIS at a small scale
(i.e. between 1:50,000 and 1: 1,000,000), which will be in a position to facilitate the sharing of
geo-referenced data, with a view to preserving the environmental protection and to improving
the conditions of rural and agricultural development.
The result 2 to be achieved will therefore aim at creating digital base maps for national GIS and
at setting up a mechanism whereby a certain number of users and providers of spatial data will
share their data on a mutual basis. To date, the following ministries or state entities have entered
into certain agreements (“accords” in Rumanian) with the ALRC in order to benefit of mapping
services. These organisations will therefore become the first users of the national GIS to be
established; they are the following:
(i) Ministry of environment (“Miisiterul Mediului”);
(ii) Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure (“Ministerul Transporturilor si
Infrastructurii Drumurilor Republicii Moldova”);
(iii) Civilian Rescue Organization (“Serviciu Protectiei Civile”);
(iv) Academy of science (“Academia de Stinte”);
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(v) Civil status administration (“Serviciu Stare Civile”);
(vi)
Office of statistics (“Biroul National de Statistica”);
(vii)
Service of Hydrometeorology;
(viii)
Ministry of Regional Development and Construction (“Ministerul Dezvoltarii
Regionale si Cosntructiilor”);
(ix)
Agency for Inspection and Restoration of Historical Monuments (Agentia de
Inspectare si Restaurare Monumentelor”).
The National GIS to be constructed will not be based on bilateral agreements, as it is now the
case between these organisations and ALRC, but there will be a unique regulation, established
by reference to the afore mentioned umbrella law, in order to “mutualise” all available
geographical and spatial data. A general draft GIS regulation shall have to be established so that
it becomes a binding regulation. This regulation shall make it possible to create a national
digital map for development of NSDI in Moldova.
The NSDI shall have to be progressive and, accordingly the spatial data schemes will have to be
selected according to different levels of priority. Based on the three groups of geographic
“themes” that the European INSPIRE Directive 2007 / 2 has mentioned, the GIS themes to be
taken in consideration by ALRC for being subject to data sharing shall be the following:
(i) Coordinate reference systems (Systems for uniquely referencing spatial information in
space as a set of coordinates (x, y, z) and/or latitude and longitude and height, based on
a geodetic horizontal and vertical datum).
(ii) Geographical grid systems (Harmonised multi-resolution grid with a common point of
origin and standardised location and size of grid cells).
(iii) Geographical names (names of regions, and municipalities and of any geographical or
topographical feature of public or historical interest).
(iv) Cadastral parcels (Areas defined by cadastral registers or equivalent).
(v) Transport networks (Road, rail, air and water transport networks and related
infrastructure).
(vi) Hydrography.
As a conclusion, the result 2 will see the completion of a regional GIS , with 10 groups of
participants, having shown interest to work with ALRC, and having thus gained the status of
GIS Partners.
For the achievement of the mandatory result 2, a region will be selected (out of a current total of
32) to host a NGIS providing and managing the 6 above listed of GIS themes. The rule of
functioning of this regional GIS shall be subject of a draft NGIS regulation complying with the
afore mentioned geographic data umbrella law and will be implemented by the end of the
project.
3.3.3 Result 3: A Land Information System (LIS) for Pilot Areas developed
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Rationale
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The creation of an adequate LIS needs to be designed and tested before rolling out as part of the
NSDI.
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Characteristics of Result 3
The result 3 shall deal with a mapping system as a part of the future NSDI, at a rather large
scale, namely between 1:2,000 and 1:5,000. This means that the said result shall aim at
embarking upon a LIS that has a limited number of objectives, namely urban development and
land consolidation. In both domains, the mandatory result will aim at facilitating urban and / or
agricultural development objectives.
The final mandatory result to be achieved by ALRC shall take place in six (6) different units of
localitate (local government) to be selected right after the start of the Twinning project (3 units
featuring urban characteristics and 3 rural characteristics). In all 6 localitate a LIS pilot
programme, managed by ALRC in its position as a “hub” for the collection, the updating and
the dissemination of spatial data will be taking place in order to succeed in completing the
construction of a LIS that shall be useful for the economic development of the given
municipalities or rural areas.
In localitate with visible urban characteristics, the objectives to be reached will be to establish
an urban LIS that shall result in the increase of municipal financial resources for funding
municipal public infrastructure such as water, sanitation, transport infrastructure, electricity.
The main users and providers of spatial data will be the LIS partners, namely: the concerned
municipality, state or private companies providing urban public services or facilities, and the
State Enterprise “Cadastru”. The agreement between all these institutions, once it is signed,
will be considered as a twinning mandatory result.
In rural settlements, where the objectives are of agricultural and environmental essence, the
main outcome is land consolidation. A specific rural LIS, run by ALRC will be useful for
carrying out land consolidation schemes. Therefore, the rural LIS to be carried out will be
based on a cooperation agreement to be signed by the representatives of the Ministry of
agriculture, of the concerned municipalities, by the State Enterprise “Cadastru” within ALRC
and by the existing farmers association. The agreement, once it is signed, will be considered as
a twinning mandatory result.
A second group of specific, measurable, available, relevant and timely indicators shall consist
of statement issued by each concerned localitate describing the conditions of achievement of
the programme of construction or of improvements of facilities or amenities that the concerned
localitate has been able to realize on the basis of the local LIS.
3.3.4
Result 4: Networks services in the field of data sharing are set up under the
responsibility of ALRC.
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Rationale
The public users of GIS and LIS develop a satisfactory level of communication with ALRC.
Sharing of experience and needs is ensured.
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Characteristics of Result 4
When it comes to GIS & LIS and more generally to the concept of Geoportal, networks
services aim at facilitating the sharing of data among users and providers of geographical data.
The EU INSPIRE Directive 2007 / 2 has listed as follows the objectives to be pursued by the
administration which has received mission to ensure the organization of network services. The
realization of these objectives will be equivalent to the 4th group of mandatory results.
Therefore the result 4 will be considered as fulfilled if ALRC succeeds to establish the
following services:
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Establishment of discovery services making it possible to search for spatial data sets and
services on the basis of the content of the corresponding metadata and to display the content
of the metadata;
- View services making it possible, as a minimum, to display, navigate, zoom in/out, pan, or
overlay viewable spatial data sets and to display legend information and any relevant
content of metadata;
- Download services, enabling copies of spatial data sets, or parts of such sets, to be
downloaded and, where practicable, accessed directly;
- Transformation services, enabling spatial “data sets” to be transformed into “information”
with a view to achieving interoperability;
- Services allowing spatial data services to be invoked.
The result 4 will be considered as being completed if ALRC has achieved in establishing, in
three pilot regions, a system of services networks for a minimum of 10 users / providers of georeferenced data.
3.4. Activities
The Twinning Project will undertake the following activities6:
3.4.1 Component 0: Kick-off, Closure of Project, Steering Committee Meetings
This activity will include the presentation of the project to ALRC staff and representatives of all
possible administrative units working in the domain of GIS / LIS, including representatives of
international organisations, all public stakeholders of the land management sector within
Moldova, including the relevant government departments, and representatives of the media and
NGO’s where relevant.
Note: The listed activities and the proposed means for achieving the activities and
results are indicative can be revised in the framework of the preparation of the contract
between twinned institutions.
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The first month of the project will be used to allow the installation of the Resident Twinning
Adviser (RTA) in Moldova. The RTA will have to be installed in his/her office within the
beneficiary. She/he will be introduced to the BC stakeholders of the project and to his/her
counterparts and staff. He/She will also hire one or two assistants through an appropriate
selection procedure.
On a quarterly basis regular Steering Committee meetings will be held to promote the effective
management and monitoring of project activities as describe in the Twinning Manual
(subsection 6.3).
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Activity 0.1
Kick off meeting
A one-day kick off meeting will be organized in the first month of the project, aiming at
launching and presenting the project to the stakeholders, the media and the public at large. In
order to guarantee large public information and visibility about the start of the project, the
meeting will be concluded with a press conference and a press release.
Benchmarks: Stakeholders, media and public informed about the start and content of the project
by start of month 2.
Resources: RTA, PL, translation, interpretation.
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Activity 0.2
Closing event
A closing event will involve not only the key MS and ALRC officials, but also other experts
and official representatives that will raise awareness about the results achieved thanks to the
project, the state of play of the sector and the challenges ahead. The audience of this event is not
only the stakeholders of the project, also Civil Society Organisations and the broader public
through the Media.
Benchmarks: Closing conference organized. Recommendations and lessons learned formulated
and discussed. Stakeholders, media and public informed about the results of the project at its
end.
Resources: RTA, PL, translation, interpretation.
3.4.2 Component 1: Geographic data umbrella law is drafted in line with the EU
INSPIRE requirements
There will be two sub-groups of activities in the project result 1. The first group will deal with
the dissemination of the INSPIRE system based on the EU Directive 2007 / 2 of March 14,
2007 in order to firmly fix the concept of NSDI within the state machinery while raising
awareness of all main users and providers of geographical data. As regards the second group of
activities towards the Result 1 it will strive to achieve a high degree of approximation towards
certain components of the EU INSPIRE system.
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Activity 1.1 Dissemination of the “INSPIRE vision” to become part of the mapping
system of Moldova
Tasks
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The needed dissemination of the “INSPIRE” approach in terms of data sharing of spatial and
geographical data shall firstly require the establishment of a training programme with a view to
disseminate a number of principles contained in the “INSPIRE” system.
The “dissemination programme” of NSDI related tools will mainly focus on the following
issues:
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The need of network services for sharing spatial data. Several network services should make
it possible to discover, transform, view and download spatial data and to invoke spatial data
and e-commerce services. The services of the network should work in accordance with
commonly agreed specifications and minimum performance criteria in order to ensure the
interoperability of the mapping infrastructures. The network of services should also include
the technical possibility to enable public authorities to make their spatial data sets and
services available.
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The need to establish a cost-efficient mapping system owing to the technique of digital
mapping. Where a public authority supplies another public authority with spatial data sets
and services required for the fulfilment of its specific obligations, a specific mechanism for
sharing spatial data sets and services between ALRC and other public administrations and
natural or legal persons is advisable and shall have to be put in place electronically.
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The usefulness to build up a mapping system free of charge as a rule. It will also be
important, for the successful implementation of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure of
Moldovan that a minimum number of services be made available to the public free of
charge.
Short terms expert missions will be mobilized, in order to draft a fact-finding report showing the
needed technical adjustments or refurbishments of the legal framework on land market as a
whole. This fact-finding report, which will be edited under the logo of ALRC will therefore give
details about how the NSDI should work and covering the following items:
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interoperability of spatial data sets and services;
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metadata registry and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards as
some of them are to be integrated with the international standard ISO/TC21 of geographic
information;
networks services (ALRC shall have to be officially recognized as the main “hub” for
collecting geographic data at large, medium or small scale, include them in its data base,
update them in relationship with the GIS / LIS partner institutions, and put them at the
disposal of users);
data-sharing with a view to shifting from raw geo-referenced data to the needed
information for the users of GIS or LIS;
concept of umbrella law and its legal relationship with subordinated regulations in view of
facilitating “horizontal” relationships between administrative units needing to have access
to the same types of geographical data.
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Benchmark: Fact finding report drafted, and discussed in two roundtable discussions with
representatives of stakeholders.
Resources: STE input 90man/days (3 experts x 6 missions of 5 days), translation 200 pages.
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Activity 1.2 Preparation of the draft umbrella law based on the referent of EU
INSPIRE Directive 2007/2
Tasks
This activity will mainly consist of taking the INSPIRE Directive 2007/2 as a possible model
for a revised national legislation applied to the sector of land relations, geodesy, mapping, real
estate cadastre and soil protection. Based on the fact finding report and the discussions held the
law will be drafted with the intention to align Moldovan legislation towards the EU-Acquis to
the extent possible.
It is too early to give an insight into the contents of the draft law, but one recommends that it is
based on the principles which have inspired the entry into force of the EU Directive INSPIRE
2007 / 2 and that it takes in consideration the specific characteristics of the public administration
of Moldova. This should lead to address the following issues: creation of digital base map for
development of national spatial data infrastructure at large, medium and small scale for both
local LIS and national GIS, environmental protection, location of public service utilities or
commodities (education, public health…) infrastructure transport network etc..
Benchmark: Umbrella law drafted, and discussed in two roundtable discussions with
representatives of stakeholders.
Resources: STE 40 man/days (2 experts, 4 missions of 5 days each)
3.4.3 Component 2: Expanding the mapping areas and implement National Geographic
Information System (NGIS) in order to meet users demand for digital maps swiftly and
efficiently.
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Activity 2.1 - Production of 1:10,000 topographic and land use maps of the pilot zone
to be selected, the area of it being not more than 1,500 km²
Tasks:
This activity shall have to be carried out in compliance with the National Geodetic Network
under current preparation. It will have to be subject to integration with the International standard
(ISO/TC21) of geographic information. Initially the pilot zone will be identified. In a second
step the map will be produced in compliance with the mentions standard
Benchmark: Map of pilot zone produced
Resources: STE 20 mand/days (2 experts, 2 missions each, 5 days each)
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Activity 2.2 - Completion of Training Needs Analysis for assessing the degree of
understanding and commitments of ALRC staff and ALRC implementing agencies to
the rules of functioning of NGIS
Tasks:
A detailed analysis of the current situation with regard to training needs within the ALRC and
its four implementing agencies must be the starting point. It is indeed needed to clarify the
degree of professional expertise of ALRC staff when dealing with NSDI related issues. In order
to assess the training needs properly and also taking into account previous training initiatives of
donors, a thorough TNA should be conducted. Based on questionnaires and structured
interviews, the TNA should assess separate the needs of the staff of ALRC at central level and
in its four implementing agencies (SE Cadastru, SE Soil Protection, SE Institute GEOCAD, SE
Project Institute for Land Management). Based on the TNA, a detailed training plan for the
different categories of target groups of ALRC staff including its four executing agencies will be
drafted so that they become familiar with the functioning of NGIS. The TNA will also address
the issue as to how training, provided within the twinning project, can be sustainable and which
measures should be implemented to ensure sustainability due to the possible turnover of staff.
Benchmark: TNA conducted and corresponding report drafted. Training plan drafted discussed
and agreed
Resources: STE 20 man/days (2 experts, 2 missions each, 5 days each)
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Activity 2.3 – Preparation of training material and provision of training
Tasks:
Based on the results of activity 2.2 comprehensive training material will be drafted. The training
material will be used in at least 10 two days training sessions for staff of ALRC and related
institutions on the identified topics. Each training seminar will be evaluated. Participants will
receive a certificate and the training materials will be disseminated in the most appropriate way.
Benchmark: Training material prepared, training conducted; at least 100 staff of ALRC and
related institutions trained
Resources: STE 50 man/days (5 experts, 2 missions each for 5 days each), translation 100 pages
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Activity 2.4 - Installation of NGIS Working Group based on a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU)
Tasks
In order to assist a certain number of users of geo-referenced “data” with the data they need for
creating their own “information”, the NGIS group of users of geo-referenced data will be
established with a view to facilitating data sharing and to identifying the types of GIS layers to
produce . The group should be made up of the following authorities: Agency “Apele Moldovei”
(water supply); Agency of Silviculture “Moldsiva”; National Bureau of Statistics, Moldovan
Academy of Sciences; Ministry of Transport and Road Management; Ministry of Transport and
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Road Management; Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure; Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Industry.
A MoU will be enacted and signed by all of them and will be open for accession to other public
and private potential users or providers of spatial data. The MoU in question will set out the
rules of functioning of the NGIS to create, emphasizing the conditions through which data are
handed to ALRC, included in the data base and put at the disposal of the users of the NGIS.
Benchmark: MoU drafted discussed and agreed by the members of the working group
Resources: STE 40 man/days (4 experts, 2 missions each, 5 days each)
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Activity 2.5 - Study Visit to the EU MS on preparation and implementation of NGIS
Tasks:
Selected staff of ALRC will gain first-hand experience on best practices regarding the
conditions through which an EU MS is addressing the preparation and the implementation of a
NGIS.
The number of participants in the study visit should be 7 and the duration 5 days. A member of
the Twinning team and a translator shall accompany the group of ALRC participants on the
occasion of the study visit.
After the study visit, the ALRC staff having participated in this study visit shall prepare a report
explaining the possible pros and cons of considering the experience of the visited EU partner
country as an example to follow, when it comes to the preparation of the NGIS architecture.
Benchmark: Study tour implemented, report by participants drafted
Resources: 7 BC officials, 5 days mission, interpretation
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Activity 2.6– Assessment, in a pilot Region of Moldova of the conditions of
functioning of NGIS in compliance with the principles laid down by the draft
umbrella law
Tasks:
A raion of the country will be selected where ALRC, with the assistance of the Twinning team
of experts, will monitor and evaluate the conditions of functioning of the NGIS. The decision to
select a specific raion will be taken by the General Director of ALRC in close coordination with
the afore mentioned NGIS working group.
Several short monitoring and evaluation reports will be completed to assess the outcomes of the
NGIS when applied, within the territory of the selected region to address the following issues:
(i) conditions of management of environmental protection, (ii) agriculture, (iii) transport, (iv)
education, (v) water supply and irrigation, and (vi) public health.
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Benchmark: Assessment report on functioning of the NGIS in the selected pilot region with a
detailed assessment of the six issues listed above.
Resources: STE 60 man/days (4 experts, 3 missions each, 5 days each)
3.4.3 Component 3: A Land Information System (LIS) for Pilot Areas developed
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Activity 3.1 Setting up of LIS in six selected municipalities
Tasks:
The rationale of this activity is to establish the base maps needed for facilitating the
implementation
of municipal policies for ensuring optimal conditions of economic
developments of six selected localitate. The given localitate will be selected by the Twinning
Project Leader of Moldova.
Once this selection is done, a municipal LIS working group is established, made up of
representatives of all regional authorities competent in land development, agriculture
development, legal cadastre and authorities in charge of land use planning. With the assistance
of short term Twinning experts specializing in management of local public services (water and
sanitation, irrigation transport, rural development, and land consolidation), they will help ALRC
construct a local LIS under the form of a multipurpose cadastre.
Benchmark: LIS of 6 selected localitate (local government) is set up
Resources: STE 60 man/days (4 experts, 3 missions each, 5 days each)
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Activity 3.2 Construction of multipurpose cadastre in six selected municipalities
Tasks:
This activity shall be very similar to that carried out with the support of Japan, as its purpose is
to superpose a certain number of layers on a base map. The architecture of each LIS that will
have to be constructed for each of the six selected municipalities and it should be similar for all
multi-purpose cadastres of these municipalities.
Therefore, there will be at least 7 to 8 LIS layers, in addition to the base maps, which shall show
the basic parcels. The multi-purpose cadastre to be constructed in each pilot municipality will be
firstly concerned with the physical attributes associated with each land parcel, including manmade objects, such as buildings, pipelines, and structures, and natural features such as the
vegetation, water or geology. This multi-purpose cadastre will also be concerned with
abstractions, such as property and administrative boundaries, land value and land use. It may
also contain data about surveying and mapping, including measurements and cartographic data.
Not all of these items will be included initially within the cadastre; some may never be
incorporated and others may be added only in the distant future.
The multipurpose to construct in each of the six pilot localitate shall have to identify what is
necessary to know for the purpose of planning and land administration.
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Benchmark: Multipurpose cadastre set up in 6 pilot areas
Resources: STE 100 man/days (5 experts, 4 missions each and 5 days each)
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Activity 3.3 - Study Visit to a municipality of EU MS for improving knowledge with
an urban LIS
Tasks:
Selected staff of ALRC will also gain first-hand experience on best practices regarding the
conditions through which one selected municipality of EU MS is coping with urban LIS and
multipurpose cadastre. also with the conditions through which land consolidation is taking place
in this country. A mission of a duration of 5 days for 8 participants seems reasonable.
Benchmark: Study tour implemented, report by participants drafted
Resources: 8 BC officials, 5 days mission, interpretation
3.4.4 Component 4: Networks services in the field of data sharing are set up under the
responsibility of ALRC
The ALRC will remain the agency responsible for policy formulation in terms of data sharing
and for day to day operations in the mapping sector. What is important is that there is a need for
a body responsible for co-ordination in the field of production, utilisation and updates of maps
all scales from 1:1,000,000 to 1:2,000. One has to avoid the duplication of data recoding. This
amongst other things, makes the maintenance and update of the records extremely complex. The
problems that beset reform are as much administrative as technical. This is why the main groups
of activities in Result 4 will be to set up a revised status of ALRC with a view to strengthening
the role of ALRC in the mapping system of Moldova. The components of this reform will need
to carry out the following activities.
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Activity 4.1 Strengthening the current institutional positioning of ALRC
Tasks:
Experience so far in the field of GIS / LIS has suggested that any central co-ordination of
geographic and land information is best undertaken by an autonomous body responsible
directly, as it is the case now, to the highest government authority (in the present case, the Prime
Minister’s Office). Different models used in EU member states for the status of the cadastre
office will be explored and discussed with a selected audience.
Benchmark: Report on the status of cadastre offices drafted and discussed with selected
audience
Resources: STE 20 man/days (2 experts, 2 missions each, 5 days each)
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Activity 4.2 Establishing a distance – learning scheme for the personnel of ALRC’s
implementing agencies
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Tasks:
In order to ensure also sustainability of the project's activities the training material developed in
activity 2.3 will be used as the basis for the development of a distance learning module in order
to disseminate the knowhow also to branches of the ALRC outside of Chisinau. At least 10
training sessions will be implemented for the staff working in the raioni. Each participant will
be provided with relevant training materials. Some of the training sessions will also use distance
learning material. Each training session will be evaluated and the evaluation will be used to
redefine future training to meet the needs of the participants. The distance learning scheme
should be developed within the ARLC.
Benchmark: distance learning modules developed
Resources: STE 40 man/days (2 experts, 4 missions each, 5 days each)
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Activity 4.3 Data standards and exchange
Tasks:
Although administrative mechanism exist in Moldova for the exchange of land / geography
related data between governments departments (see more particularly the Decree on Geoportal),
they may not operate effectively.7 A technical level, national standards for the exchange of
data at large scale (LIS) or small scale (NGIS) will almost certainly need to be established. It
will be therefore needed to review the existing Decree No 731 of August 5, 1997 to assess
whether or not it is in line with the vision of the NSDI as influence by the EU INSPIRE
Directive. The review will also suggest proposals in order to ensure compliance with the
mentioned EU Directive
Benchmark: Review report with suggestion for alignment with the EU-INSPIRE Directive.
Resources: STE 30 man/days (3 experts, 2 missions, 5 days each)
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Activity 4.4:
provider
Study visit to EU MS for addressing the function of networks service
Tasks:
A number of five officials of ALRC will be invited to see how a MS is addressing the function
of networks service provider. Once these specialists are back to ARLC, they will present a
report about this issue to the relevant audience.
Benchmark: Study tour implemented, report by participants drafted
Ressources: 5 BC Officials, 5 days mission, interpretation
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Decree on Geoportal No 731, dated August 5, 1997 : Hotarire Nr 731 din 05.08 1997 cu privire la
aprobarea Regulamentului Fondului Cartografo-Geodezic de Stat al Republicii Moldova.
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3.5.
Means / Inputs from EU Member State Administration
3.5.1. Profile and Tasks of the Member State Project Leader
Project Leader profile
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University level education in Geodesy, Mapping and Cadastre or directly related field.
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Civil servant or equivalent with professional experience of minimum 7 years and preferably
10 years in the field of GIS & LIS and cadastral related issues;
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Senior civil servant or equivalent staff of a MS institution in a position that could let
him/her fulfil the tasks associated to the Project Leader role;
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Professional qualification in surveying engineering will be an asset.
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Sound knowledge of best practices regarding land relations, land consolidation, geodesy,
mapping and geo-informatics, and soil protection and land improvement;
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Experienced project manager, demonstrating good record in organisational leadership, staff
motivation and communication;
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Excellent team-working skills;
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Strong analytical skills;
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Excellent English language skills, both spoken and written.
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Command of Rumanian and / or Russian language would be an asset;
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Computer literacy;
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Good inter-personal skills.
Expected Inputs
The Member State Project Leader (PL) will be expected to devote a minimum of three days per
month to the project in his home country. He / she will participate as representative of the MS
partner in the quarterly Steering Committee meetings and bear - together with the Beneficiary
Country Project Leader - the final responsibility for an efficient and effective implementation of
the Twinning project.
The main responsibilities of the PL are to ensure:
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Overall coordination, guidance and monitoring of the project;
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Preparation of project progress reports with support of RTA;
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Timely achievement of the project results;
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Co-chairing of project steering committees;
3.5.2.
Profile and Tasks of the Resident Twinning Advisor (RTA) and of his/her
Assistants
RTA Profile
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University level education or equivalent professional qualification in Geodesy, Mapping
and Cadastre or directly related field.
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At least 5 years of professional experience in a EU MS Public Administration or
equivalent in the field of Geodesy, Mapping and Cadastre.
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Have an excellent command of written and spoken English;
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A good command of Rumanian and / or Russian would be an asset;
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Have good inter-personal skills;
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Proven experience in project management;
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Computer literacy.
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Sound knowledge of cadastral issues, LIS, and / or GIS related issues.
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Sound knowledge of best practices regarding the management, the use, supply and update
of geo-referenced data and their dissemination to users.
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Experience in implementing similar or related assistance and co-operation projects will be
an asset.
Expected Inputs
Moldova;
To manage the day-to-day coordination and progress of activities of the project in
To liaise with the Member State Project Leader, Beneficiary Country Project Leader
and RTA counterpart;
The proposed RTA must comply with the minimum requirements established in the Twinning
Manual. In his/her daily work in Moldova, the RTA will be supported by an RTA Assistant as
well as by a permanent interpreter / translator in case that possibility is seen as cost-effective
efficient in the light of the global interpretation/translation costs. Both, RTA Assistant and
potentially RTA Language Assistant are to be recruited and funded by the project.
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3.5.3.
Profile and Tasks of Short - Term Experts (STE)
The successful implementation of the twinning project activities will to a large extent depend on
the input from STE. Therefore, the STEs shall have:
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University degree or equivalent professional experience in the relevant fields according
to the activity to be performed.
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A minimum of 3 years of experience in their respective field;
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A working level of written and spoken English.
To achieve the results and carry out the activities planned, STE’s profiles will be needed to
cover the following areas, inter alia: land information, land registration, multipurpose cadastre,
frameworks for spatial referencing, surveys and mapping, digital mapping, data management &
institutional arrangements in information societies.
4
Institutional Framework
The beneficiary will be the Agency of Land Relations and Cadastre (ALRC). Its statute was
approved by Decree of the President of the Republic of Moldova No 230 of July 27, 1994.
This status warrants the absorption capacity for welcoming the Twinning assistance project.
It takes part in forecasting country’s socio-economic development, coordinate actions of central
authorities and local authorities in the field of land development and promotion of national
programme and plans.
ALRC is also promoting economic-organizing reforms in its activity domains, which is as a rule
the management of geographical data in all its compartments (economic, legal and multipurpose
cadastre, soil protection, land use planning based on soil quality, etc.). It administrates state
property of subordinated enterprises with fully or partly State-owned authorized capital, bears
responsibility for subordinated State enterprises functioning, as well as for the results of their
financial and economic activity, founds and wind up State enterprises in its field in compliance
with law. Besides, ALRC coordinates education, professional development, training and
certification of specialists in the corresponding field. Four State Enterprises (SE) report to it in
the following sectors:
(i) legal cadastre,
(ii) geodesy, mapping and GIS;
(iii) land management;
(iv) soil protection and land improvement.
As regards now the departments within the ALRC which will be more particularly involved in
the conduct and leadership of Twinning project, the larger bulk of responsibilities of the
Twinning will be on the side of the central ALRC departments more than on the side of its four
subordinated state enterprises (State Enterprise "Cadastru", State Enterprise "INGEOCAD",
State Enterprise "IPOT" and State Enterprise "Soil Protection and Land Improvement"). The
future leading role in ARLC are to be played by:
- The Geodesy, Mapping and Geoinformatics Direction
- The Land Relations and Soil Protection Direction
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- The Real Estate Cadastre Direction
- The State Inspectorate for Geodesic Supervision of ARLC
- The National Spatial Data Centre
The Geodesy, Mapping and Geoinformatics will play a coordinating role in the future Twinning
project.
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Budget
The total budget amounts to maximum € 1,200,000.
6
Implementation Arrangements
The persons in charge of this project from the Contracting Authority is:
Ms Speranta OLARU
Project Manager
Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Moldova
12, Kogalniceanu Str;
MD 2001 Chisinau, Moldova
Tel. + 373 22 505210
Fax +373 22 545421
Speranta.olaru@eeas.europa. eu
The Programme Administration Office (PAO) will support the Twinning project
implementation process together with the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of
Moldova. The contact person is:
Mr. Ion GUMENE
Director of Policy coordination and strategic planning
State Chancellery
Piata Marii Adunari Nationale, 1
MD-2033 Chisinau
Tel: +373 22 250 215
Fax: +373 22 250 259
E-mail: Ion.gumene@gov.md
6.2
Main counterparts in Moldova
6.2.1 Main Twinning Beneficiary:
Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre
Address:
47 Puskin str. Chisinau, MD 2005
General Director:
Mr. Anatolie GHILAŞ
Contact Person
Ms. Maria OVDII, Head of the Department of Geodesy, Mapping&GIS
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Tel. No.:
Fax No.:
E-Mail:
Web-Site
+373-22-881255
+373-22-226373
maria.ovdii@arfc.gov.md
www.arfc.gov.md
6.2.2 Project Leader - Moldova:
Mr. Anatolie GHILAŞ
General Director of ALRC
47 Pushkin Str. Chisinau, MD 2005
Phone: +373 228 81 255
Fax: +373 222 29 805
Email: info@agency.cadastre.md
6.2.3 RTA - Counterpart
Dr. Maria OVDII
Chief of the Geodesy, Mapping and GIS Department of ALRC
47 Pushkin Str. Chisinau, MD 2005
Phone: +373 228 81 270
Fax: +373 222 26 373
Email: ovdii@agency.cadastre.md
6.2.4 Steering Committee
Every three months, the Steering Committee will assess the progress of the project, monitor the
achievements of the outputs and mandatory results and discuss any other issue which might
affect the smooth implementation of the project.
The exact composition of the Steering Committee is to be defined in the Twinning Contract in
line with the requirements stated in the Twinning Manual (subsection 6.3). The following
persons or entities are members: Project Leader for Moldova, MS Project Leader, BC Project
Leader, RTA, RTA counterpart, representatives of the EUD and PAO.
Representatives of other donors and relevant projects may be invited to participate as observers
in the Steering Committee meetings. Beyond this coordination mechanism, informal contacts
with other projects and donors, for exchange of information on respective work programmes,
etc. are encouraged with a view to ensuring sustainable synergy.
The RTA will prepare and organise the Steering Committee meetings, draft the invitations and
the agenda, will assist the Project Leaders in the preparation of the interim and final reports and
he/she will draft and distribute minutes from the meetings.
6.3 Contracts
Only one Twinning contract is foreseen for this project.
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Implementation Schedule (indicative)
7.1.
Launching of the call for proposal: 4th quarter 2013
7.2.
Start of project activities: 3th quarter 2014
7.3.
Project completion: 3th quarter 2016
7.4.
Duration of the implementation period (number of months): 24 months.
8
Sustainability
8.1 Institutional sustainability
As training and mentoring project, the twinning should help equip the ALRC to undertake its
tasks for the foreseeable future.
In the longer-term, the twinning project is likely to have positive impacts, including:
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Establishment of a firmer legal basis for GIS & LIS and more generally NSDI;
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Provision of support to improved information management of spatial / geographical
data owing to trainings (on the job and distance training schemes);
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Increased of public agencies to cooperate among themselves and with relevant
institutions in EU countries for best supporting the economic development of the
country by providing the units of the Government of Moldova with the basic georeferenced data they need to produce thair own geo-referenced information
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Managerial and analytical skills are developed and retained at the ALRC.
The training materials produced within the project might also be used for the training of futures
staff of ALRC after the end of the project.
8.2 Financial sustainability
The Twinning assistance will be efficient and sustainable provided the ALRC have enough
financial resources for funding the mapping tools that are needed for the proposed pilot
activities.
8.3 Risk management
The risk of the difficult achievements of the Twinning project may arise from the reluctance of
certain key "GIS/LIS subscribers" to share their data and be really interested in obtaining the
data from the ALRC, which they need for constructing and managing their own information as
it must be the case in all sustainable GIS or LIS. Three groups of possible constraints may be of
three types:
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Technical risks: A standard set of base maps is required both as reference for cadastral
information and for efficiently integrating environment and other needed data. The base
maps must be large enough to depict all relevant needed characteristics of soils when it
comes to GIS and property information in the case of LIS. If the base mapping does not
meet the expectations of GIS/LIS participants, there will be the risk that the objectives of
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the mapping system are not achieved. A similar area of risk can arise if no provisions are
made in order to ensure the compatibility of data from different sources within the system.
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Organizational risks: GIS and LIS arrangements might not work in the event that an
organisational structure (based on a Memorandum of Understanding between ALRC and the
GIS/LIS participants) would not be able to coordinate user input, technology acquisition,
development of common standards and procedures, and other system related decision
making.
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Institutional risks: Many professionals, public authorities and associations will be directly
involved in the collection and use of data in GIS and parcel-based LIS, including lawyers,
land surveyors and planners. Their active support should be obtained by ensuring that the
activities take into consideration the standards and procedures of these groups. In any case,
the political support is needed in order to ensure the success of the reforms.
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Crosscutting Issues
By providing information that enables realistic decisions to be made on the informative
technology that best needs their needs, the Twinning project in favour of the ALRC should
succeed in setting a mapping system that is secure, unitary, integrated and cost-efficient.
Achieving the objective of sustainability in the management of geographic and land data is a
far-reaching crosscutting challenge. The expected results of the Twinning project is favour of
ALRC should bring about the four following groups of positive results.

Relevant laws and regulations reviewed, recommendations and amendments given;
standards for spatial data management harmonized.

Methodologies are identified according to adopted standards. Software for NSDI
infrastructure is designed using the harmonized standards and methodologies identified
. Geospatial information data sets are available according to ISO and other international
standards issued mainly by the EU (i.e. the INSPIRE system).

Enhanced capacity to generate, manage and disseminate accurate spatial planning
across Moldova at different scales, from 1:2,000 to 1:1,000,000. Enhanced capacity of
ALRC to actively participate in European institutions.

Internet web portal (national Geoportal) for the institutional cooperation and public
access to geospatial data sets established.
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Conditionality and Sequencing
Full commitment and support is required from ALRC and the Government, including their
readiness to establish and take active part in a Steering Committee that will coordinate the
implementation of the twinning project. The ALRC should in particular: nominate the
counterpart personnel, nominate the relevant staff to participate in regulatory drafting, capacity
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building and training activities in accordance with the approved twinning programme, provide
appropriate premises, facilities and work space.
A minimum of mapping equipment will be provided by ALRC. This mapping equipment shall
be composed of at least a set of base maps showing the administrative boundaries of all
concerned localitate, which will be subject of the pilot project of GIS and LIS. This
conditionality makes it an obligation for the ALRC to select prior to the kick off conference, the
raion that will be the site of the pilot GIS and the 6 localitate which will welcome the LIS
experimentation.
The ALRC will also be well-inspired to put at the disposal of the Twinning team, before the
kick-off conference the comprehensive list of all laws and regulation that build up the legal
framework for the mapping system of Moldova. The list shall include all corresponding
legislation about the organisation of local government in the Republic of Moldova as well as all
regulations in the sector of environment, land use planning, agriculture and transport
restructureure.
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Annexes to the Twinning Fiche
Annex A Logical Framework Matrix
Name and Project Number: Twinning Project for the Agency of Land Relations and
Programme Name and Number: ENPI annual programme 2011
Cadastre (ALRC) - Organization, Streamlining and Computerization Process in Mapping in the
Republic of Moldova
TOTAL BUDGET: 1.200.000 EURO
Overall Objective
To
accelerate the development of the
Information Society services in Moldova in
connection with the
E-Governance
programme, as established by the Government
of Moldova in August 2010 to ensure
transparent governance by using and promoting
information technologies in the public sector.
Objectively verifiable Indicators
An improved cadastre and mapping
system d in Moldova at the end of the
implementation period. Improved public
services.
Sources of Verification
GIS & LIS from Moldova;
Project Purpose
To improve mapping system in line with the
EU standards and best international practices of
management of geographical data.
Objectively verifiable Indicators
The Mapping and cadastre system of the
Republic of Moldova complies with the
standards of the EU-INSPIRE Directive.
Positive EC opinion about progress in
areas of cadastre.
Improved websites at Geoportal
Sources of Verification
EC Regular Report on progress
by the Republic of Moldova in
implementation of the ENP
Action Plan priorities (and
National Indicative Programmes
beyond 2013)
Twinning project review mission
report
Twinning Final Report
Registries and Annual reports of
ACLR activities
Geoportal
Assumptions
Continued commitment from the Moldovan
Government to support ACLR in Moldova .
Sources of Verification
Assumptions
Results
Objectively verifiable Indicators
Annual Report of the ALCR
Opinion polls from citizens of
Moldova
Sufficient funding available to ensure that the
ACLR and related enterprises can do their work.
Public entities are willing to cooperate with ACLR
.
The Agency can stand up to vested interests.
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Result 1: Geographic data umbrella law is Primary and secondary legislation in EC Regular Report
drafted in line with the EU INSPIRE compliance with EU standards by end of Project progress report
requirements
2015;
Assessment reports
Comprehensive
Assessment
Report regarding the legal basis
for mapping and cadastre
prepared by the MS experts
Annual reports of the ALRC and
the MoE
Comprehensive Review Report
Result 2: An effective regional GIS with Increased administrative capacities in
several groups of participants is set up in line place by the end of the project,
NGIS providing and managing the 6
with EU best practices.
above listed of GIS themes implemented
in a pilot region
The rule of functioning of this regional
GIS shall be subject of a draft NGIS
regulation complying with the afore
mentioned geographic data umbrella law
and will be implemented by the end of the
project.
At least 100 staff of the ALRC network
trained by the end of the project.
Training materials for ALRC developed.
Continuous cooperation among the stakeholders
Appropriate
expertise
and
necessary
documentations available
Strong involvement of the MoE
ALCR is willing to take on new areas.
Political will to improve alignment of legislation
continues.
Twining Progress Reports
Beneficiary institutions ensure staff and trainees
Assessment Reports of the pilot available;
NGIS
Pilot NGIS operational
List of participants of workshops
and seminars
Result 3: A Land Information System (LIS) for For 6 pilot municipalities agreements Twining Progress Reports
Pilot Areas developed.
passed by all LIS and GIS partners with Agreements concluded
where a pilot project of LIS is taking
place either for the sake of urban
development or for facilitating the
preparation of land consolidation schemes
by the end of the project
Beneficiary institutions ensure
staff available;
LIS and GIS partners are willing to cooperate
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Result 4: Networks services in the field of data In three pilot regions a system of services Twining Progress Reports
sharing are set up under the responsibility of networks for a minimum of 10 users / Geoportal
ALRC
providers of geo-referenced data are
established by the end of the project.
Distance learning modules developed by
the end of the project
Beneficiary institutions ensure
staff available;
LIS and GIS partners are willing to cooperate
Activities
Assumptions
Means
Component 1
Activity 1.1: Dissemination of the “INSPIRE
vision” to become part of the mapping system
of Moldova
Legislation is available
The recommendations
will be accepted by
beneficiary and supported by the Government and
Parliament
Activity 1.2: Preparation of the draft umbrella
law based on the referent of EU INSPIRE
Directive 2007/2
Legislation is available
The recommendations
will be accepted by
beneficiary and supported by the Government and
Parliament
Component 2
Activity 2.1: Production of 1:10,000
topographic and land use maps of the pilot zone
to be selected, the area of it being not more
ALRC is
materials .
willing to provide basic mapping
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than 1,500 km²
Activity 2.2: Completion of Training Needs
Analysis for assessing the degree of
understanding and commitments of ALRC staff
and ALRC implementing agencies to the rules
of functioning of NGIS
ALRC is willing to take on new areas.
Activity 2.3: Preparation of training material
and provision of training
Beneficiary institutions ensure staff participation
Activity 2.4: Installation of NGIS Working
Group based on a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU)
ALRC is willing to take on new areas.
Activity 2.5: Study Visit to the EU MS on
preparation and implementation of NGIS
Beneficiary institutions ensure staff participation
Activity 2.6: Assessment, in a pilot Region of
Moldova of the conditions of functioning of
NGIS in compliance with the principles laid
down by the draft umbrella law
pilot projects are in place
The recommendations
beneficiary
will be accepted by
Cooperation between all stakeholders
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Component 3
Activity 3.1: Setting up of LIS in six selected
municipalities
ALRC is
materials .
Activity 3.2: Construction of multipurpose
cadastre in six selected municipalities
Municipalities and other stakeholders are willing to
cooperate
Activity 3.3: Study Visit to a municipality of
EU MS for improving knowledge with an
urban LIS
Beneficiary institutions ensure staff participation
willing to provide basic mapping
Component 4
Activity 4.1:
Strengthening the current
institutional positioning of ALRC
ALRC is willing to take on new areas.
Cooperation between all stakeholders
Activity 4.2: Establishing a distance – learning
scheme for the personnel of ALRC’s
implementing agencies
IT-Technology for distance learning is in place
Activity 4.3: Data standards and exchange
ALRC is willing to take on new areas.
Cooperation between all stakeholders
Activity 4.4: Study visit to EU MS for
addressing the function of networks service
Beneficiary institutions ensure staff participation
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provider
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Annex B
Indicative Implementation Chart
Months
Component / Activity
1 2 3
0.1
Kick off conference
X
0.2
Steering committee Meetings
X
0.3
Monthly Meetings
x
0.4
Closing conference
x
4
x
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
X
x
x
x
X
x
x
X
x
x
x
X
x
x
x
X
x
x
x
X
x
x
x
X
x
x
x
X
Component 1
1.1.
1.2.
Dissemination of the “INSPIRE vision” to become
part of the mapping system of Moldova
Preparation of the draft umbrella law on Information
Society inspired by the EU “INSPIRE” Directive
to become part of the mapping system of Moldova
x
x
x
x
x
x
Component 2
2.1.
2.2.
2.3.
Production of 1:10,000 topographic and land use
maps of the pilot zone to be selected, the area of it
being not more than 1,500 km²
Completion of Training Needs Analysis for assessing
the degree of understanding and commitments of
ALRC staff and ALRC implementing agencies to the
rules of functioning of NGIS
Preparation of training material and provision of
training
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
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Component / Activity
2.4.
Months
1 2 3
4
5
6
7
Installation of NGIS Working Group based on a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
2.5.
Study Visit to the Twinning Partner Country
2.6.
Assessment, in a pilot Region of Moldova of the
conditions of functioning of NGIS in compliance
with the principles laid down by the draft umbrella
law
8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Component 3
3.1.
Production of 1:5,000 topographic and land use maps
in six selected municipalities
3.2
Construction of multipurpose cadastre in six selected
municipalities
3.3.
x
x
x
Study Visit to a municipality of the Twinning
partner country for improving knowledge with an
urban LIS
x
x
Component 4
4.1.
Strengthening the current institutional positioning of
ALRC, topic of a specific report to complete about
this issue
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Component / Activity
4.2.
Months
1 2 3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Establishing a distance – learning scheme for the
personnel of ALRC’s implementing agencies which
is working outside of the Headquarters in Chisinau
4.3.
Data standards and exchange
4.4.
Study Visit to the Twinning Partner Country
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
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Annex C
List of selected laws and regulations and of legal / institutional pamphlets

Law of Land Code (“Legea Codului Funciar”) Nr 828 of 25 December 1991

Law of Real Estate Cadastre (“Legea Cadastrului bunurilor immobile”), 1994

Law of Geodesy and Mapping (“Legea cu privire la geodeyie si cartografie), 2002

Statutes of Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre (“Regulamentul Agentiei Relatii
Funciare si Cadatru a Republicii Moldova”), No 230, dated 27 July 1994


Decree on approval of land consolidation (“Hotarire cu privire la aprobarea
Regumantului privind consolidarea terenurilor agricole”) No 1075, dated 1st October
2007

Pamphlet of presentation of the Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre (“Agentia
Relatii Funciare si Cadatru a Republicii Moldova”), 2011, www.arfc.gov.md

Pamphlet of State Enterprise CADASTRU, Chisinau, 2009, ISBN 987-9975-67-639-7,
97 pages.

Statutes of State Enterprise INGEOCAD (“Statutul Înterprinderii de Stat Institutul de
Geodezie, Prospectiuni Tehnice si Cadatru INGEOCAD”), as approved on March 24,
2008

Pamphlet of State Enterprise “Planning Institute and Land Management” (IPOT), 1961
– 2011 (53 pages)
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ANNEX D Organization Chart of ALRC (As of 2011)
General Director of
ALRC
Cabinet
(1 unit)
Vice General
Director
Deputy General
Director
General
General
Land Relations and Land
Consolidation Direction
(1 unit) General Mapping &
Geoinformatics
General Director
Human (2 unit)
Land
and real
(1 unit)
Evaluation of
estate Direction
real estate
Direction (5 units)
(nitunit)
resources unit
Legal(1office
unit)
(5 unit)
(7 unit)
(2 unit )
Monitoring and
Fondul Naţional de date Geospaţiale
State Inspectorate for Geodesic
(GEOPORTAL)
works
Serviciul
administrativ
(1 unit)
Association for soil
State Enterprise
State Enterprise
protection
Institute INGEOCAD
„Cadastru”
(Planning Institute)
(autogestiune)
(3 unit)
Filialel of the
OCT filiale
association for soil
Î.S. IPOT
protection
(1 unit)
Service(4 unit)of
(2unit)
(autogestiune)
(
Subordinate agency
officeServiciul de
analiză, monitorizare,
Economic & Financial
evaluare a politicilor
Section
(cu statut de serviciu)
State enterprise IPOT
evaluation
ÎS „Cadastru”
internal
audit
intern
Administrative
serviceservice(3 unit)
(1 unit)
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