Properties, 870 families have been compensated in 10 years - ATP report for 2024 revealed, delays as a result of legal changes
In more than 26 thousand files archived at the Property Treatment Agency over a period of 10 years, official data show that only 870 owners expropriated during the dictatorship have been compensated, or less than 5 percent of the total decisions made. The fund allocated to these families is about 8.4 billion lek or about 84 million dollars, while the area allocated from the physical fund is 765 hectares.
Thus, contrary to the provisions made in the reformed law in 2015, the process has proceeded at an extremely slow pace. The report of the Property Treatment Agency for 2024 points out that what has delayed the compensation practice, in addition to the successive battles in the Constitutional Court, has been the low number of applications from citizens, as well as the problems that have arisen in relation to the power of attorney and other administrative issues that have hindered the completion of legal procedures.
Specifically, in 10 years, only 2,570 requests have been filed by expropriated owners, of which only 33.8 percent or 870 decisions have been executed.
During the period January-December 2024, 24 files with a financial invoice of up to 15 thousand euros were processed. With the changes made, all families with a compensation value lower than 15 thousand euros have the opportunity to benefit in full, i.e. 100 percent, from the financial fund. Meanwhile, 23 decisions with a special request were also processed, which means that these families have voluntarily chosen to receive up to 40 percent of the compensation invoice and waive the remaining part, as well as 5 other files, whose owners have received 20 percent of the value from the financial fund and 80 percent from the physical fund. So in total, only 52 files were processed.
Regarding the evaluation procedure, the Treatment Agency notes that over the course of a decade, around 27 thousand decisions have been financially evaluated.
Three years ago, with the recommendation made by the Strasbourg Court, ATP re-evaluated nearly 10,000 files, which were affected by the change in the cadastral entry, giving them the opportunity not to leave the process empty-handed, but to benefit from 10 percent of the value their property had on the market today.
We recall that at the end of last year, the government decided to extend the deadline for property compensation and handling of files without a decision until 2028. There are over 7 thousand applications for which the ATP is expected to issue a decision, otherwise these families will be forced, as has happened with previous practices, to go to court.
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