Territorial Planning Institutions
The new Law on Territorial Planning (No. 10 119, 23.4.2009) states in Article 5 that " ...the National Territorial Planning authorities shall be:
a) the Council of Ministers;
b) the National Territorial Council;
c) the National Territorial Planning Agency;
d) each and every Ministry and each and every other central public body which, under the effective legislation, has territorial planning duties and responsibilities, or any other body subordinate to the former or to the Council of Ministers that has been delegated or sub-delegated specific tasks and responsibilities regarding territorial planning and environmental control."
Article 87 of the Law mandates that the Council of Ministers shall "...enact sub-legislation required for the setting up and functioning of the National Territorial Planning Agency with in 6 months of the coming into effect of this Law," or effectively, before December ,20 09. And further that "...the NTPA shall enact sub-legal draft acts... pursuant … to Article 55 (the National Territorial Planning Register) by May 1,2010."
Article 92 of the Law requires that provisions in accordance with Article 55 (the Register) shall take full effect not later than September 1,2010.
National Territorial Council
The Law stipulates in Article 8 that "...The National Territorial Council (NTC) shall be the decision-making body responsible for enacting the national planning instruments, in line with the stipulations contained in this Law. The NTC shall be established under the Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister shall be the NTC head."
National Territorial Planning Agency
Article 9 of the Law states that "...The National Territorial Planning Agency (NTPA) shall be a public budgetary central institution under the Council of Ministers, which shall have legal personality and shall discharge its duties and responsibilities in accordance with this Law and effective legislation.
Territorial Planning Register
Article 3 of the Law states that the "...The Territorial Planning Register, hereinafter the register, shall mean a public electronic and paper inventory, into which data on land, planning acts and draft acts, development applications, and development, building or use permits, the legal rights or restraints stemming from them, as well as studies or other documents of interest to the public, are entered and managed, as defined by Chapter V of this Law, independently by the national and local authorities."
Article 52 of the Law says that "...Information in the Register shall be organized according to a network of integrated and multi-purpose electronic cadastral bases of data on land, being independent of and interacting with one another. Responsible authorities shall build, manage and maintain the databases, being components of the Register according to a technical platform, and joint geodesic and GIS structure and standards, so as to ensure compliance and interaction among them, as well as the exchange and use of information registered in them."
Archive of Legal and Regulatory Information
New Law on Territorial Planning
Law on Territorial Planning
Secondary Legislation
DCM for the establishment of the Territorial Planning Agency
Sub legal acts
Existing Legistation on Territorial Planning
LAW 8405 on Urban Planning 1998
LAW 8501 Amendments to Urban Planning Law 1999
LAW 8991 Amendments to urban Planning Law 2003
Other governing legislation
Decentralization of local governance
Environment
Environment related legislation
Law on environmetal protection
Law on fishery and aquaculture
Water sources law
Heritage
Other
LAW 8561 on Expropriations for Public Interest 1999