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About two million buildings in Serbia built without permission

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All previous attempts to restore order through seven laws and several other amendments and to legalize illegal buildings built in the past decades in Serbia have not borne fruit. Now, new changes to regulations are being announced, in the direction of “mass legalization”. The fact is, however, that the authorities have not yet found a solution that could bring order to this area and finally stop wild construction. The new news is that the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the provision that was adopted in 2018, which set the deadline for legalization until November 2023.

Until now, it has been announced several times that the Law on Legislation, which was adopted in November 2015 and amended in 2018, could soon undergo changes again. A few days ago, this topic was raised again when the director of the Republic Geodetic Institute, Borko Drašković, announced that a new Law on Legalization will soon be adopted, which will make mass legalization official, which will be digital. He said that the resolution of property-legal matters is key to achieving mass.

There are three situations – when you have built on your own land, on someone else’s land and on public land. The speed with which the legalization will be carried out depends on the way of solving property-legal issues. The problem is not of a technical nature, but rather a question of establishing rights. We are ready to register any type of rights, and in what kind of procedures the rights will be determined, that is a question dealt with by the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure,” said DraÅ¡ković at the meeting of the Association for Property and Investments.

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Municipalities legalize 300 buildings per year

Jasmina Radovanović, Head of the Unit for Property and Finance in the National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED), tells Euronews Serbia that, according to their research from 2020 and the data they receive from local governments, unresolved property-legal relations are the biggest problem when in regarding legalization, but that a serious problem is also the small number of officers who are engaged in those cases.

“The average local self-government with about 100,000 inhabitants has only six employees who are assigned to work on legislation. According to the number of cases they have in their work, it turns out that an average of about 1,100 cases are assigned to one employee. That is a huge figure, because annually resolves only 300 cases at the level of local self-government. That is one big congestion”, Radovanović points out.

She notes that most cities and municipalities do not have special software and have not digitized this procedure and notes that due to unnecessary communication with officials, this procedure is actually suitable for numerous abuses and corruption and that it is therefore important to network state authorities and to simplify the procedure.

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