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Right to Property (Right to a Title)

In the scope of protection of the right to property and economic freedom are included the questions, signals and complaints of citizens seeking the assistance of the ombudsman to resolve their violated rights, concerning the following topics:

- Problems that affect the right to property in the procedures for creating, announing, approving and implementing general and detailed development plans;

- Other problems related to the structure of the territory - restriction of access to properties; unmaintained and undeveloped networks and facilities of the technical infrastructure; implementation of the provisions of effective plans for street regulation, objects of social infrastructure and planting; unmaintained and unimproved surrounding spaces and others;

- Investment designing, territorial protection of the environment and living conditions, waters, agricultural lands, forests, biological diversity, cultural heritage;

- Violated rights in procedures for creating and maintaining cadastral maps and cadastral registers of real estates;

- Infringed rights concerning illegitimate construction;

- Application of the principle of proportionality and Art. 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights for the removal of constructions and eviction of a single dwelling by municipal and state authorities;

- Expropriation-compensation proceedings;

- Restitution of ownership, including agricultural and forest properties in accordance with the Farm Lands Ownership and Use Act and the Restoration of Ownership of Forests and Forestry Fund Lands Act;

- Land property relations: lease contracts, violations of the owners' rights in contractual relations; illegal use of agricultural lands, including illegal grant for use of municipal roads - public municipal property; complaints about unfair and illegal distribution of pastures and grasslands by the State Land Fund and Municipal Land Funds.

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  • Protection from fast loan companies
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