LADM_CP_Czech Republic_Country Profile for the Cadastre of the Czech Republic Based on LADM
Karel JANEČKA, Petr SOUČEK
In 2014 the New Civil Code entered into force in the Czech Republic. This Act addresses several aspects of 3D cadastre. In particular, real estates are land and underground construction with a separate special-purpose uses, as well as property rights to them. The Act says explicitly, that the space above and below the surface, buildings established on the land and other facilities (excluding temporary buildings), including what is embedded in land or fixed in the walls, are parts of the land. Furthermore, if an underground construction is not a real estate, then it is a part of the land, even if it affects (lays below) the other land. In connection with the adoption of the New Civil Code, also a new Cadastral Act (law number 256/2013 Coll., the "New Cadastral Act") entered into force as a basic legal cornerstone of the cadastre of real estate of the Czech Republic. This is the set of data about real estates in the Czech Republic, including their inventory and description and their geometric specification and position. Parts of it are records of property and other material rights and other legally stipulated rights to these real estates. Cadastre of real estate contents many important data about parcels and selected buildings and their owners and is administered as the information system about the territory of the Czech Republic mainly by the computer means, where cadastral unit is the basic territorial unit. Despite the fact, that the cadastre of real estates is registered in 2D, some paragraphs of the New Civil Code touches the 3D (e.g. the space above and below the surface is part of the land). There is a difference in definition of “parcel” in the New Civil Code (3D) and the New Cadastral Act (2D). In October 2014, the Czech government approved the conception of The Strategy for the Development of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the Czech Republic to 2020 (GeoInfoStrategy), which serves as a basis for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). There is a strong emphasis on the creation of National Set of Spatial Objects. NSSO is defined as the source of guaranteed and reference 3D geographic data at the highest possible level of detail for selected objects of the real world, covering the whole territory of the Czech Republic. A part of NSSO should be 3D buildings. These 3D buildings will serve for several analysis and can also introduce a base for modelling of legal spaces of buildings and units in 3D in the future. The paper presents the country profile for the cadastre of the Czech Republic based on ISO 19152:2012 Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) reflecting the actual production cadastral system. The profile consists of both legal and spatial part. We applied the abstract test suite stated in ISO 19152:2012 – Annex A (Abstract test suite) and the LADM conformance requirements to explore a conformity with this international standard. The profile is conformant with LADM at level 2 (medium level) and can be further modified, especially when the Cadastral Act will be updated in the future towards 3D.
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