The project receives financial support from the European Union, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco), and FIAS (the World Bank Group). Cross-Regional Report and Annexes The survey of businesses’ access to land and real estate in 15 regions of the Russian Federation was carried out by FIAS at the request of the RF Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the Federal Antimonopoly Service. Сlosely related FIAS project on administrative barriers to investment and business development also provides detailed recommendations to both organizations (see the web-cite: FIAS/EU Report on Business Access to Land, 2005, prepared for MEDT, and FIAS/EU Review of Land and Real Estate Cases, 2005, prepared for FAS, www.worldbank.org/russia/fias). The survey was conducted in period of from February the 1st and October the 17th, in the following subject of the Russian Federation: Irkutsk oblast
Kaliningrad oblast
Khabarovsk krai
Leningrad oblast
Moscow city
Moscow oblast
Nizhny Novgorod oblast
Novgorod oblast
Novosibirsk oblast
Perm oblast
Rostov oblast
Sakhalin oblast
St.Petersburg city
Sverdlovsk oblast
Tomsk oblast
The main aims and goals of the project are: Measurement of the governance and public services delivery quality with regard to key public agencies and formal procedures, which businesses must comply with; Evaluation of the types and magnitudes of costs of impediments imposed on private enterprises by the main administrative/regulatory locating procedures, and pinpointing the areas of excessive cost or unnecessary delays which might benefit from reform or streamlining; Provision of an opportunity to initiate a public-private sector dialogue based on the survey results and creation of implications and the agenda for reform; Provision of the basis for monitoring the changes in the administration system so that an evaluation of potential government reforms may be possible. Identifying priority areas for most urgent need for improvement and most important and difficult impediments; Further improvement of methodology for survey of administrative procedures for locating an enterprise, elaborated during the FIAS pilot Survey of Business Intermediaries in Four Regions of Russian Federation (2003-2004, Nizhny Novogorod, Samara, Saratov Oblasts and the Republic of Tatastan), including the sampling methodology and the survey instruments. Definition of the sampling universe of business intermediary companies (BI’s) and enterprises, which in 2004 attempted, underwent or finished locating procedures in each of the regions under survey; and the development of appropriate interview tools. Gathering of statistic information from the federal and regional/ municipal sources to complement the survey and to provide recommendations for future use of such official statistics in monitoring the implementation progress of federal land related policies and laws at the local level.
The survey was based on interviewing two groups of respondents: Legal entities and sole proprietors providing intermediary services for locating procedures (BIS, Business Intermediaries Survey); Legal entities and sole proprietors that attempted, underwent or completed locating procedures in 2004 (ARCS, Administrative and Regulatory Cost Survey).
The following nine basic locating procedures were studied: Procedure 1. Obtaining (by lease) a land plot, which is currently state or municipal property, for construction on, with a preliminary agreement on the object location. Procedure 2. Obtaining (by lease or purchase) a land plot, which is currently state or municipal property for construction on, without a preliminary agreement on the object location, during auctions or tenders. Procedure 3. Obtaining ownership or lease rights on land plots that are currently state or municipal property, with premises, buildings or constructions, which are private property. Procedure 4. Lease of a real estate object (premise, building or construction) which is currently municipal property, without the procedure of tender (including for targeted use). Procedure 5. Lease of a real estate object (premise, building or construction) which is currently the municipal property during tenders or auctions. Procedure 6. Transferring a premise (building) from the residential use to non-residential one. Procedure 7. State registration of rights on real estate and real estate transactions (in the cases of (1) buying or selling a real estate object (land plot, building or premise) in the secondary market, (2) drawing a contract of a real estate object (land plot, building or premise) lease for the term of more than 12 months in the secondary market). Procedure 8. Transferring a land plot from one category into another, changing designated use of a land plot. Procedure 9. Privatization of a real estate object (building or premise) which is currently municipal property.
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