Calling All Property Owners: Check if you are registered in the land register under your personal identification number (EMŠO)
In 2020, 84.6% of all owners had complete information on file with the land register. For private individuals, this information includes: name and surname; address of permanent residence, postal address, date of birth, citizenship and personal identification number (EMŠO). For legal entities this information includes: name or company name, registered office and legal entity registration number.
The Bill stipulates that persons/entities registered in the land register under their EMŠO or registration number eight days before the start of any cadastral procedure (e.g. boundary marking, new measurements, parceling, land consolidation, determination of easement area, determination of area building rights, registration of the building and parts thereof, etc.) shall be notified of the commencement of such actions. Persons/entities who are not entered in the land register under an EMŠO or registration number shall be deemed to have been given notice of the procedure once it has been posted in the information system, which in practice means that they will probably not be able to participate in this procedure.
In putting the Bill forward for adoption, the legislator wants to encourage all owners to register their EMŠO in the land register, which should speed up and streamline cadastral procedures and prevent possible abuses or errors. There have been cases in the past when title to real estate has been wrongly determined because persons/entities shared the same name and surname, which could have consequences for social welfare payments, etc. This could have been avoided if those persons/entities had been registered using their EMŠO. There have also been reports of persons changing their name and completing the identification procedure in the land registry court by attributing the data to their EMŠO.
All property owners are therefore advised to check their registration status in the land register and, if necessary, start the process of putting their registered data in order.
Author: Matevž Klobučar, Attorney-at-law
