Tivat: Kontić to solve problems in the cadastre

The Real Estate Administration of Montenegro, aware of the current situation in the Regional Unit Tivat, and in order to find the best solution and at the risk of the work of the Regional Unit Podgorica, has temporarily reassigned an experienced lawyer to the position of head in Tivat Marko Kontić, so that with his experience, work and good organization he would solve long-standing problems in the Municipality.

This was announced by the Tivat cadastre, noting that there were as many as 5.500 pending administrative procedure cases in that regional unit.

They informed the public that the working hours of the Regional Unit for receiving mail and issuing data are every working day from 8 am to 11 am, and that the chief and lawyers will receive clients on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 am to 11 am.

They noted that, due to the situation in the Tivat Regional Unit, the emphasis was placed on resolving the backlog of cases, and that "given that this is a responsible business, work with the parties is limited in those terms, in order to resolve the backlog as soon as possible." .

"It is a well-known fact that this body has long-standing personnel problems, but with good organization and the same number of employees, the number of unsolved cases has already decreased and we hope that with overtime work, the results will soon be at an enviable level. The Acting Director of the Real Estate Administration will also organize assistance from other regional units that will be available to the Regional Unit at all times, in order to significantly reduce the number of unfinished cases in the shortest possible time," the statement of the Real Estate Administration states.

Mayor of Tivat Željko Komnenović he recently said at a session of the local parliament that "Tivat's cadastre is by far the worst in the country" and that the problem in the work of that institution has been going on for years, which is causing enormous damage to the citizens, the municipality and numerous foreign investors, and that the expropriation and tax debt procedures cannot be completed obligee, transfer of the real estate to the new owner or to finish most of the jobs that have any contact with the cadastre in a fast, efficient and responsible way.

Only the Municipality of Tivat, due to the inaction of the local cadastre, has blocked several tens of multimillion-dollar investments in local communal infrastructure, as well as numerous unfinished processes of expropriation of private properties necessary to build new streets, water pipes, sewers, expand the city cemetery....

Thus, last year, the Tivat Cadastre did not act in any of the ten expropriation procedures initiated by the Municipality last year, although the Municipality of Tivat duly set aside a total of almost 780.000 euros for them in a special account of the Ministry of Finance in order to pay expropriation fees to the owners of those properties. Because of such a bad situation in the Tivat cadastre, which she was in charge of until recently Tijana Dašić, many citizens cannot solve administrative and legal matters related to the disposal of real estate, and the problem is also large foreign investors such as Porto Montenegro and Luštice Bay, for whom the construction and sale of real estate is the main part of their business in Tivat.

The problems in the functioning of the Tivat cadastre began at the end of 2020, when the police and the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which he then managed, were in action. Milivoje Katnic, due to suspicion of malfeasance during the registration of state property in the strip of maritime property in Tivat as private property, the director of the then Real Estate Administration was arrested Dragan Kovacevic (SD), then head of the Tivat Cadastre Ana Lakicevic and several other persons connected with them. Because of this, for the next few months, citizens and the economy in Tivat suffered great damage, because the premises of the Regional Department of the Real Estate Administration were completely closed and out of order, so citizens and institutions such as the Municipality could not complete literally any legal action related to the disposal of real estate. on the territory of Tivat.

Numerous appeals from the Municipality of Tivat addressed to former prime ministers Zdravko Krivokapić i Dritan Abazović, and to the Ministry of Finance, in whose department is the Cadastre Administration, but also to the management of that Administration, which he headed at the time Koča Đurišić (New) that the Tivat cadastre be filled with an adequate number of people and that the service finally starts working in the right way in accordance with the needs of citizens, institutions and the economy, more than three years since the continuation of the problem, have not resulted in its satisfactory solution.

Đurišić, justifying the bad situation due to the lack of personnel, publicly promised on several occasions that he would fix the situation in the Tivat cadastre, solve the backlog of cases and create a "daily up-to-date cadastre", but this did not happen. He also ignored the numerous remarks of the citizens, but also of the management of the municipality, about the (non)work and behavior of the acting head of the Tivat cadastre, Tijana Dašić, whom Đurišić, as the then director of the Administration for Cadastre and State Property of Montenegro, brought from Podgorica to Tivat in April 2022, although those remarks were very serious, and the relations were so bad that in the end the acting mayor and the management of the Municipality even completely stopped communication with each other.

The new Prime Minister's Government Milojko Spajić in the meantime, it separated the previously single Administration for Cadastre and State Property, headed by Đurišić, into two new ones: the Administration for Real Estate, which is responsible for the cadastre, and the Administration for State Property. At the beginning of last month, Đurišić was appointed acting director of the State Property Administration, while at the end of February, he was appointed acting director of the Real Estate Administration, M.Sc. Marko Bulatović who fell into the thankless duty of "putting out the fire" in the Tivat cadastre that Koča Đurišić left him as a legacy.