The development of Cadastre (“cadastral survey”) at a region is defined as the procedure of recording the real property or other registrable rights (e.g. full or limited ownership, usufruct, prenotification or other real property encumbrance, etc.) which a person or a legal entity has on real properties of a specific region of the country and the connection of these rights to a specific property or properties, as the latter are defined and depicted, after being checked and technically processed, on cadastral diagrams.

On recording a real property right, a series of legal details (register and ID details of the beneficiary, way of acquisition of the right, details of the deed with which the right was acquired, etc.) are also recorded. Furthermore, land parcels are depicted on cadastral diagrams in absolute accuracy with specific node coordinates that refer to the Hellenic Geodetic Reference System (EGSA ’87), specific boundaries and property areas.

Consequently, the cadastral survey procedure aims at collecting, processing and recording property and other registrable rights per property but also at collecting and processing details that allow the most accurate possible depiction of land parcels on cadastral diagrams.

The cadastral survey procedure has a specific time schedule; it begins with the declaration that a region is under cadastral survey and it is completed with the commencement of the Cadastral Office’s operation in this region.

Briefly, the cadastral survey procedure includes the following stages:

• Submission of property declarations to the Cadastral Survey Offices by the beneficiaries and registration of the declaration in a digital database.
• Formation of interim cadastral tables and diagrams based on the data that has been collected from the submitted declarations and has been processed by lawyers and surveyors. 
• Suspension of the interim cadastral data (tables and diagrams) at the Cadastral Survey Offices for a two-month period and dispatch of extracts to the beneficiaries for their information. 
• Submission of objections to independent administrative committees or applications for the correction of a cadastral registration, depending on the case, by whomever has a legal right, for a time period of two months for residents of Greece and a time period of four months for people residing abroad. 
• Reformation of cadastral data after the examination of the objections and the correction claims and formation of the final cadastral tables and diagrams. The registrations that appear on the final cadastral tables are called Initial Registrations since they constitute the first (initial) registration in the cadastre. 
• Commencement of the Cadastral Office’s operation in the particular area in place of the old Land Registry Office.