Some 456 properties remain registered to defunct and untraced state entities, 95 percent of which have been lost over the past eight years. The number of these state entities with land or buildings still listed in the land register has fallen by 87 percent to 171. This was stated in an announcement today by the Office for State Representation in Property Matters (ÚZSVM). According to the office, the reduction in the number of properties registered to state entities that do not carry out any activity helps municipalities remove obstacles to their development.
“With this agenda, we are putting the land registry in order and helping municipalities and counties to remove unprivileged state properties that make it impossible for them to build the necessary infrastructure. Verification of ownership rights to state property without title is a very time-consuming and professionally demanding process, as we often have to search for the necessary data in land registers and archives of other authorities,” said Kateřina Arajmu, Director General of the Office of Land Management.
The ÚZSVM transfers real estate registered to defunct state entities to local governments or to functioning state entities. The Office mentioned as examples the transfer of 11 plots of land from the defunct Road Investor Unit Pardubice to the Pardubice Region or the transfer of land in Dačice from the defunct state enterprise Road České Budějovice to the Morava River Basin.
According to Arajm, the number of properties registered to state entities in bankruptcy and liquidation was also reduced by 73 percent to 4,459. The number of such entities has fallen by 68 percent to 30 in eight years.
The figures on the number of properties and state entities are based on the State Property Map project, which the Ministry of State Property updated as of July 1. According to the bureau’s information, 665 state entities existed on that date, of which 464 were active and 201 were unincorporated, i.e. bankrupt, in liquidation, defunct or untraceable. All state entities had 1.4 million properties registered against them, the vast majority of which were land. In addition, there were 40,445 buildings and 781 residential and non-residential units owned by state entities.
According to the ÚZSVM, the forests of the Czech Republic manage the largest number of state properties, accounting for one-third of the total. Another 31 percent of the real estate is registered with the State Land Office. In third place are the state-owned enterprises of the Basin, with ten percent of the state real estate registered to them.
