State Property Issues Committee (Azerbaijan)

The committee was established on May 19, 2009 by the Presidential Decree. The statute of the committee was approved on June 24, 2009 by the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan. Based on the Decree No. 516 dated May 4, 2015, the Committee's Statute was amended, the structure of the Committee, as well as the list of subordinate bodies were approved.[3]

By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on expanding the functions and structure of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan on October 23, 2019, the State Committee for Property Issues was included in the structure of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Regulations of the State Service for Property Issues under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan were approved by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated May 12, 2020

• to carry out tasks arising from regulatory activity in the relevant field;
• to ensure implementation of state programs and development concepts in the relevant field;
• to coordinate the activities of the executive authorities, state enterprises and organizations in the management and privatization of state property;
• to create an automated land cadastre information system and data bank through electronic registration and mapping of all categories of land in state, municipal and private ownership through its subordinate structure;
• to realize the privatization of state property and to control over compliance of terms of sale contracts concluded with buyers of state property;
• to conduct the development and implementation of targeted programs in cooperation with relevant central executive bodies;
• to participate in the development of mechanisms of state support for the development of social spheres, determination of directions and implementation of reforms in housing and communal services, as well as in infrastructure projects;
• to make arrangements on state property, to control over the management and efficient use of state-owned property, for this purpose, to carry out monitoring and investigations in state-owned enterprises, legal entities with a state share capital, regardless of their affiliation.[3]

Directions of the activities of the Service defined by its Statute are:[3]

• participating in the formulation of public policy in the relevant field and ensuring the implementation of this policy;
• providing development of the relevant sector;
• carrying out normative activity in the relevant field;
• managing of state property located in the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan and abroad, making arrangements about them, taking measures to increase the efficiency of management of state property;
• carrying out privatization of state property, including state housing fund and lands;
• keeping records of state property and dealing, organizing inventory of state property;
• compiling and maintaining the state register of real estate, carrying out state registration of property and other property rights;
• developing and maintaining the Uniform State Cadastre of Real Property, the State Land Cadastre and the land registry which is a part thereof;
• maintaining address register, providing addressing to real estate objects;
• taking measures to organize the land market;
• organizing and implementing land management activities to regulate land relations and addressing effective land use;
• organizing and performing special (field) geodetic works in order to conduct state registration of real property rights and state registration of real estate, single state cadastre of real estate and land cadastre, land management activities, as well as overseeing state surveillance in this area;
• submitting the maps of municipalities prepared on electronic carriers and paper, as well as the report in regard with quarterly changes in state, municipal and privately owned lands within the territories of municipalities to the Administration of the President of Azerbaijan.[3]

State Program on Improvement of State Property Management of the Republic of Azerbaijan [4]

2nd State Program of Privatization of State Property in the Republic of Azerbaijan [5]

State program on development of cadastre system of real estate, increase efficiency of land use and protection in the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2016-2020 [6]

• Cabinet of Azerbaijan
• Housing in Azerbaijan