The 2006 Regional Workshop on Land Consolidation and Land Development built on the foundation laid by earlier regional workshops on land consolidation. This workshop, as with the regional workshop held in Prague in 2005, was sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Czech Republic, and the Land Tenure Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Participants came from Albania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Ukraine and the territory of Kosovo. Technical sessions were led by specialists from FAO and the Danish and Dutch land consolidation agencies.
The workshop's objectives were to:

• Inform people of what is happening in other countries of the region, thereby allowing them to know what experiences elsewhere could be of use to them.
• Strengthen the peer network in the region, thereby allowing people to contact others to find out more about what they are doing.
• Provide an opportunity for people from the region to learn more about international best practice from the western European land consolidation experts, and to be able to ask questions to these experts.
• Provide an opportunity to discuss technical aspects of land consolidation, with a particular focus on capacity building: how countries can develop the needed skills to carry out land consolidation.

Each country prepared a written case study and made a presentation at the workshop on recent activities and priorities for the future. The experiences of more advanced countries were helpful to the countries that are just starting land consolidation initiatives.

Meeting docments

Opening: Land consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe: Moving to the next challenges of capacity building
FAO of the UN
David Palmer

Panel: Requirements for land consolidation planners

Qualification for projecting of land consolidation
Czech Republic
Jana Pivcová

Panel: Options for education for land consolidation planners

The reform of curriculum at the Department for Geodesy and Geoinformatics of Belgrade University
Serbia & Montenegro
Stevan Marosan

How to train skilful land consolidation planners/designers?
Estonia
Siim Maasikamäe

The role of higher education on land consolidation programme
Albania
Fatbardh Sallaku

Panel: EU requirements for land consolidation

Policy issues in land consolidation: EU requirements & EU funding options
FAO of the UN
Richard Eberlin

Land consolidation under the new EU Rural Development Programme 2007-13
Denmark
Morten Hartvigsen

Country case studies

Assessment of mass valuation methodology for compensation in the land reform process in Albania
Albania
Fatbardh Sallaku, Agim Shehu

Land consolidation in Armenia: progress made
Armenia
Manuk Vardanyan, Vahagn Grigoryan

Participatory land use development in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Melisa Ljuša, Hamid Custovic

New approaches for land consolidation in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Kiril Stoyanov

Land consolidation in Croatia
Croatia
Ana Budanko Penavic, Maja Pupacic

Remarks on the land consolidation in the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Libor Cihal

Land fragmentation and the need for the land consolidation in Estonia
Estonia
Siim Maasikamäe

Activities related to land consolidation characteristics in Georgia
Georgia
Tea Dabrundashvili

Study of an approach in land consolidation in Kosovo
Kosovo
Murat Meha

Land consolidation in Lithuania
Lithuania
Giedre Leimontaite

Land consolidation and land development in Macedonia
Macedonia
Kiril Georgievski

Agricultural land consolidation issues in the Republic of Moldova
Moldova
Ion Botnarenco, Vitalie Iurcu

Consolidation and land development - experiences and conclusions from Poland
Poland
Andrzej Zadura, Adam Struziak

Farmland Consolidation: Recent Developments in Romania
Romania
Attila Blenesi Dima, Marioara Rusu

Recent activities on land consolidation in Serbia
Serbia & Montenegro
Stevan Marosan, Mladen Soskic, Zoran Knezevic

Land consolidation and development of land relations in Ukraine
Ukraine
Roman Shmidt, Andriy Halyas