President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree approving regulations for the Electronic Real Estate Registry and Cadastre information system (DERKIS) and regulating related matters.
“Operative Information Center-OMM” reports that, under the decree, the State Service on Property Issues under the Ministry of Economy will act as the system’s owner, while the State Cadastre and Registry of Real Estate, under that service, will serve as its operator.
The Cabinet of Ministers is tasked with addressing matters arising from the decree. The Ministry of Economy must take the necessary steps to establish, maintain, organize and develop DERKIS. Within 18 months, it must ensure that documents and data covered by the regulations and prepared or issued before the decree takes effect, which are held in the information resources of its subordinate entities, are entered into DERKIS. The ministry must also transfer information from the electronic land cadastre accounting system to DERKIS and ensure that the former system is discontinued. Together with the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport, it must take steps to host, maintain and improve DERKIS in the Government Cloud in accordance with the Government Cloud (G-Cloud) Concept approved by a presidential decree dated June 3, 2019. It must also arrange for DERKIS to be entered in the Unified Register of State Information Resources, Systems and Electronic Services and the State Register of Personal Data Information Systems.
Within 18 months, the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport must take the necessary steps, together with state bodies and agencies holding relevant documents and data in their information resources, to transfer them to DERKIS through the Electronic Government Information System. In cooperation with the State Service for Special Communication and Information Security, it must also implement measures arising from the requirements of the presidential decree of September 12, 2018, approving rules for the establishment, maintenance, integration and archiving of state information resources and systems, and on certain measures related to e-government.
