Portugal’s BUPi digital land registry project has already made it possible to geo-reference 1.3 million properties in the 153 municipalities in the country that lack a land registry, the minister of justice announced on Wednesday at the BUPi Annual Meeting, held in Batalha. “Thanks to the involvement and collaboration of everyone, and particularly the municipalities, we have now surpassed 1.3 million georeferenced properties,” said the minister, Catarina Sarmento e Castro, at the opening of the meeting, in remarks summarising the “structural reform that the country has been waiting for decades.” So far, she said, the BUPi has made it possible to identify 68% of known area “in terms of ownership, occupation and use” and the government’s objective “is to reach the ninety percent mark by the end of 2023.”.
