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.

Ktimatologio S.A. has been proclaimed a regular member of EuroGeographics, namely the "family" of national agencies for Chartography and Cadastre of the European Countries, by unanimous decision of the Association’s 58 members, during their October annual General Assembly in Brussels.

The general acceptance of Ktimatologio S.A. was based on a number of qualitative attributes the company presented, such us the content and quality of the work that has been accomplished to date, the general planning and programming of the remaining tasks, as well as the company\'s strategy on making the data available to Interner users.

The  declaration  under cadastral  survey is  the first  stage of the procedure and is a prerequisite for the  procurement of  the tender that  will award the cadastral survey contracts.  The cadastral survey  studies will be developed gradually according to the planning laid out for the entire State. Respectively, thetimeandmethod to be followed for the submission of declarations by citizens will be announced per region. To better inform citizens a relevant campaign will precede in the media.

The remaining regions of the GreekState were declared under cadastral survey according to the decision of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, entitled: “Declaration of regions under cadastral survey for the works of the Hellenic Cadastre” (Government Gazette Issue B 1077). The decision is valid as of the date it was published in the Government Gazette (15.07.2010).  

Obligations for professionals

Repayment of money to the owners who by mistake have paid 

incorrect amounts (overpayment) regarding the rights they declared

during the cadastral survey of the 107 regions is underway;

these owners had submitted a Cadastral Survey Fee Repayment Application. 

The Cadastral Survey Fee Repayment Applications came up to a total of 

79,500; 40%of which has already been repaid. For the rest of them,

the identification and attestation of due sum procedure has already

been completed.

The deposit of the sums at banks is also about to begin. It is estimated that the procedure will have been completed by late April.

After the deadline for the submission of declarations expired, Ktimatologio S.A. checked the database, attested the mistaken 

payments as well as te exact due sum, so the corresponding

sums are being deposited at the bank accounts designated by

the beneficiaries.