The suspension of cadastral data concerning 26 additional areas will be conducted within the year 2013. It includes 9 LGOs within the Regional Unit of Thessaloniki, 10 Prefecture capitals and 7 LGOs within the Prefecture of Attica. The first Suspension will commence on 15 April and shall concern eight Municipalities within the Regional Unit of Thessaloniki and four Prefecture capitals in Northern Greece and gradually the suspension of data related to the remaining areas will follow. The Suspension related to the first 12 areas affects 275,000 beneficiaries (ca. 656,000 titles and rights), while in the 26 areas for which a Suspension will be conducted until the end of the year ca. 2.7 million titles and rights of ca. 1.1 million beneficiaries have been recorded.  

Ktimatologio S.A. has undertaken the implementation of the project "Development of large scale (1:5000) spatial data infrastructure for terrestrial protected areas of the "Natura 2000 " network, on a national scale, aiming at:

-         a more accurate marking-out of the outer limits of terrestrial Sites of Community Importance and Special Protection Areas of the «Natura 2000» network

-         the update, description and delineation of terrestrial habitat types in 241 Sites of Community Importance of the «Natura 2000» network

-         complementing and correcting the existing database (which was created during initial registration, between 1999-2001) using the above mentioned update, description and delineation of terrestrial habitat types, based on Ktimatologio S.A.\'s 1:5.000-scale, high precision (LSO) color orthophotos and fieldwork (sampling).

14 new cadastral survey studies have been declared, concerning 1024 pre-Kapodistrian Municipalities in 10 Regional Districts (prefectures) of the country, with a budget of 186 million euros. This concerns total acreage of the Regional Districts of Evros, Kavala, Serres, Kilkis, Pella, Imathia, Kozani, Karditsa, Larissa and Trikala (except areas already surveyed or those where cadastral survey is currently in process). For the most part, these areas have undergone land re-parceling and redistribution.

The new cadastral survey project will register approximately 4.4 million rights and will integrate 2,9 million hectares in the National Cadastre (approximately 1/4 of the country).

Ktimatologio SA\'s informational function on “Digital infrastructure made available and used: First benefits - next targets" was held yesterday, December 20, 2011 at the Eugenides Foundation auditorium with great success, under the slogan "Expertise is our strength". The event opening was first hailed by Mr. G. Maniatis, deputy minister for the Environment, Energy & Climate Change, then by Mrs M. Karavassili, Special Secretary for the Environment, and by a representative of Mr. P. Oikonomou, deputy minister of Finance.
 

The event served to present the services and applications which Ktimatologio SA has  developed in order to serve the needs of cadastral survey projects and National Cadastre operation, as well as other special digital services which Ktimatologio SA has been providing during the past year to citizens, professionals and more than 160 public agencies.

Ktimatologio S.A. won a special award in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Applications at the International Conference for ESRI Users, held on July 13, 2011 in San Diego. ESRI is the world\'s largest, as well as one of the oldest GIS Software Companies. It has millions of users worldwide, the majority of GIS-related Greek public agencies and private companies being among them.

Mr. Nikos Sifounakis, Deputy Minister for  the  Environment, Energy and Climate Change, visited Ktimatologio S.A.’s headquarters in early February.

Mr. Sifounakis had  a meeting with prof. Apostolos Arvanitis, Chairman and Managing Director, who introduced him with company executives, and presented him with the company’s organizational  set-up, the  progress of the project  and the planning of the next phases towards  completion of the National Cadastral.

The Orthophotos Viewing Service - which is the official name for the web service developed by Ktimatologio S.A. – is now enriched with new functions and data. The service is provided to citizens free of charge, and is the most up-to-date mapping database for the country.

The pictures are the result of picture-taking between 2007 and 2009, and their spatial resolution is 20cm for urban areas and 50cm for non-urban areas.

Ktimatologio S.A. started planning the next batch of cadastral programs, following a decision by the minister for the environment, Mrs Birbili, declaring the rest of the country under cadastral survey. According to the company’s planning, the new cadastral program concerns 263 districts (which, until recently, consisted separate municipalities) situated in 19 prefectures of the country.

A Memorandum for a Programmatic Agreement was signed today between the Department of Lands and Surveys of Cyprus and Ktimatologio S.A., at the Company\'s headquarters.

The memorandum was signed by the Director of the Cyprus Cadastral Mr Andreas Christodoulou and the President and Managing Director  of Ktimatologio S.A., Prof. Apostolos Arvanitis.