Compulsory purchase as an administrative procedure based on Finnish legislation and experiences
Viitanen, Kauko
The paper discusses compulsory purchase as an administrative procedure. In many countries the procedure is handled in courts and it is very complicated and time consuming. The present system in Finland based on legislation from 1977 is an administrative procedure lead by cadastral surveyors. There are already a lot of experiences in Finland, so we are able to present the system and analyse its strengths and weaknesses. In addition, there are similar types of procedures for almost the same purposes, which make the analysis even broader. The main objective of the paper is to examine the possibility to make the procedure of compulsory purchase more efficient. It is based on studies done in the Institute of Real Estate Studies and the Institute of Law, Department of Surveying at the Helsinki University of Technology during the past few years. It is hoped that the paper may contribute to the development of compulsory purchase procedures in the future also in other countries. The subject belongs to the subject areas of Commission 9, but also Commissions 8 and 7.
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