Strengthening control over the territory - Rama, at the conference: The registration of public space is a legal obligation!
Prime Minister Edi Rama, together with the Minister of Internal Affairs, Albana Koçiu, and the Minister of Justice, Besfort Lamallari, are holding a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office.
The measures taken by the government to strengthen control over the territory, protect public spaces from squatters, qualitative implementation of building permits, as well as the forcible punishment of illegal construction, on the path to Urban Renaissance 2.0, for Albania 2030 in the European Union, are the focus of this conference.
Among other things, Prime Minister Rama said: "People will no longer be allowed to move into apartments without the building being properly completed and without being provided with a mortgage. This whole part is related to the process where institutional actors are involved, from the architect, to the territorial development agency, or municipalities, as well as the agencies themselves that guarantee the supply of energy and water. This block enters the law on the control and discipline of construction works. Meanwhile, we have another block, which is the block of changes in the law on planning and territorial development.
It is very important for those who operate and carry out commercial activities in public spaces, but also for those who develop private property. Until today, there has been no rule of registering public space. With this new measure, the registration of public space comes into force as a legal obligation.
He further added:
"This conference has a special value for this moment in our path and it also has a special value for familiarizing the public with all aspects of the measures that the government has taken and now some of them have taken legal force, while another part will be put up for public consultation, as they are related to the criminal code. The entirety of these measures is related to the necessity of trying to put an end once and for all to illegal interventions throughout the territory of the Republic of Albania.
It creates the conditions for further discipline for the entire construction process, not only for unauthorized construction, but also for construction with permission that causes difficult situations for people who pay to buy a house and encounter all kinds of obstacles, including registration or the ability to enter the house.
We have seen continuous deformations in the construction process. By turning the architect into a subject of the law and burdening him with the responsibility of following the project. If the architect escapes responsibility, he pays the consequences. Formalizing the notification method, establishing detailed rules before each start of construction. Defining the control phases, clearly separating each phase during the development of the works. This is an aspect that has been very lame.
4 mandatory control phases by local self-government units. Obligation to issue a certificate of use by the responsible territorial development authority.
We have added the obligation that water and electricity be connected only after receiving the certificate of use. The reason why people are left without a mortgage is that builders do not respect the rules. Supervision by municipalities is extremely weak.
People will no longer be allowed to move into apartments without the building being properly completed and without a mortgage.
This entire section is related to the process involving institutional actors, from the architect to the territorial development agency, or municipalities, as well as the agencies themselves that guarantee the supply of energy and water. This block is included in the law on the control and discipline of construction works.
Meanwhile, we have another block, which is the block of changes in the law on planning and territorial development. It is very important for those who operate and carry out commercial activities in public spaces, but also those who develop private property.
Until now, there has been no rule for registering public spaces. With this new measure, registering public spaces comes into force as a legal obligation. Just as everyone is the owner of shared spaces, they are also co-owners of the outside environment, as a community.
This makes it very clear to all those who are occupiers today, but also to those judges who, at best out of ignorance and at worst, give the occupiers the right. No one can claim to own their own property anymore.
No space between buildings, near buildings, no space that is not built, no one can do any kind of activity, nor put up a beam to turn it into a parking lot. These spaces will not be alienated. As long as there is no building permit there, it is up to the municipality, the state, to guarantee cleanliness, safety in those areas.
"Of course, to plant trees, to make flower beds on these community properties, but without the aim of profit. It is unimaginable, while in a few years we will join the EU, to have discussions about the social character of property. It is the norm of the European Union."
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