Mr. Fausto Savoldi
CNG Welcome

Dr. Mika Törhonen
FAO Welcome

Mr. András Osskó
FIG Commission 7 Welcome

Prof. Stig Enemark, FIG President:
Land Governance: Focus on State and Public Sector Land Management

Welcome greetings

• Prof. Elio Mosele, Verona Province President
• Mr. Mario Faccioli, Villafranca Major
• Mr. Angelo Alessandri, Land Commission 8 Parliament President

Dr. Mika Törhönen, FAO:
FAO's Work in Good Governance and State and Public Land Management

Mr. Willi Zimmermann, Germany:
Effective and Transparent Management of Public Land: Experiences, Guiding Principles and Tools for Implementation

Dr. Richard Grover, United Kingdom:
The New Public Management, Accruals Accounting and the Management of Public Sector Real Estate in United Kingdom

Ms. Jenny Franco, FIAN:
Civil Society Perspectives on State and Public Sector Land Management

Mr. Enrico Rispoli, Italy:
Land Management in Relation to the European Agreement about the Landscape: Social Needs, Economic Activities and Environment

Mr. Carlo Cannafoglia, Italy:
The Italian Cadastre: Institution of Support to the Real Estate Taxation and of Sustaining to the Land Management and the Environment

Mr. Riccardo Brugnoli, Italy:
To be announced

Dr. Andrea Cantile, Military Geographic Institute, Italy:
Geographic Cartography Management and Updating

Prof. Francesco Marangon, University of Udine, and Prof. Tiziano Tempesta, University of Padova, Italy:
Economical Aspects of a Correct Land Management

Mr. Wordsworth Odame Larbi,Ghana:
Compulsory Land Acquisition and Compensation in Ghana: Searching for Alternative Policies and Strategies

Mr. Muhammad Bashar Nuhu, Nigeria:
Public Land Policy, New Trends: Challenges in Nigerian Institutional Framework for State and Public Sector Land Management

Mr. Havard Steinsholt, Norway:
Setting Capitalisation Rate Right: Discussions and Decisions of Norwegian Expropriation Courts
This is a peer reviewed paper

Ms. Katja Dells, Germany:
Privatization of Agricultural and Forestry Land in Eastern Germany: A Case Study and Lessons Learned for Countries in Transition

Mr. Yougho Lee, Republic of Korea:
Process Management for Effective Disposition of State Land in Korea

Mr. Elshad Khanalibayli, Azerbaijan:
Management and Privatization of State and Public Sector Land in Azerbaijan

Dr. Sareth Boramy, Cambodia:
State Land Management in Cambodia: Visions versus Practice

Mr. Baburam Acharya, Nepal:
Government and Public Land Management in Nepal

Dr. Radoslaw Cellmer and Dr. Jan Kuryj, Poland:
The Effect of Large Property Owners on the Real Estate Market and Local Development
This is a peer reviewed paper.

Mr. Fülöp Benedek, Hungary:
The Hungarian National Land Fund and Its Role in the State Land Policy

Ms. Albina Aleksiene, Mr. Arvydas Bagdonavicius and Mr. Steponas Deveikis, Lithuania:
The Introduction of Valuebased Property Tax in Lithuania - The Case of Effective State and Public Sector Co-operation

Mr. Kiril Georgievski, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia:
Report on FYR Macedonia State and Public Land Management

Mr. Daniel Roberge, Canada:
The Register of the Domain of the State. An Essential Infrastructure in Public Land Management

Mr. Trevor Knowles, New Zealand:
State and Public Sector Land Management in New Zealand: An Outline of the Background and Administration Processes

Dr. Mele E. T. Rakai, Fiji:
State and Public Land Management - a Pacific Perspective

Closing