Measures for narrowing the room for corruption in illegal construction and town planning

1. To disable the builder of an illegal construction in the period until the legalization or demolishing of that construction to enjoy legal protection that is bestowed on an owner, by means of changes in the Ownership Law and other rights;2. Urban plans should be used for planning spaces rather than legalizing illegal constructions, i.e. confirming the existing condition;3. To disable retroactive issuing of permits for constructing buildings that are already built;4. To award public authorization to private executors for implementing the final, executive sentences for demolishing illegal constructions and at the same time to enable court procedures to have the treatment of urgent acts;5. A more transparent passing and changing of laws in this area with a broad involvement of all relevant institutions in the country;6. To re-examine the announced reinstatement of the possibility for the construction and existence of so - called temporary buildings;7. To outline clear criteria for conversion of buildings for carrying out certain activity;8. Construction inspectors should regularly control the existing situation on the field rather than react only upon tip - offs, so that illegal constructions could be discovered at the very beginning;9. Introducing tight time limits within which construction inspectors must react to illegal buildings;10. To increase the number of construction inspectors both on a local and central level and to determine legal criteria for covering the territory of inhabited places with inspection;11. Increasing budget money intended for executing sentences for demolishing illegal constructions and determining a legal procedure for a faster and more efficient collecting of payment...
08/05/20122

1. To disable the builder of an illegal construction in the period until the legalization or demolishing of that construction to enjoy legal protection that is bestowed on an owner, by means of changes in the Ownership Law and other rights;

2. Urban plans should be used for planning spaces rather than legalizing illegal constructions, i.e. confirming the existing condition;

3. To disable retroactive issuing of permits for constructing buildings that are already built;

4. To award public authorization to private executors for implementing the final, executive sentences for demolishing illegal constructions and at the same time to enable court procedures to have the treatment of urgent acts;

5. A more transparent passing and changing of laws in this area with a broad involvement of all relevant institutions in the country;

6. To re-examine the announced reinstatement of the possibility for the construction and existence of so – called temporary buildings;

7. To outline clear criteria for conversion of buildings for carrying out certain activity;

8. Construction inspectors should regularly control the existing situation on the field rather than react only upon tip – offs, so that illegal constructions could be discovered at the very beginning;

9. Introducing tight time limits within which construction inspectors must react to illegal buildings;

10. To increase the number of construction inspectors both on a local and central level and to determine legal criteria for covering the territory of inhabited places with inspection;

11. Increasing budget money intended for executing sentences for demolishing illegal constructions and determining a legal procedure for a faster and more efficient collecting of payment for the expenses involved in demolishing illegal constructions;

12. Allocating budget money for executing sentences for demolishing of illegal constructions on separate accounts of the municipalities;

13. Securing political support from the municipalities’ councils for a more determined dealing with illegal constructions;

14. Introducing a system of more rigorous punishments and bigger rewards for the construction inspectors;

15. To inspect the assets of all involved parties in the process of deciding upon urban plans, issuing resolutions for location conditions, approving urban projects, issuing permits for construction, urban and construction inspection, implementing sentences for demolition, issuing permits for usage, etc.

16. Timely passing of legal acts in this area so that laws can be fully implemented, preferably at the same time laws are passed and changed;

17. To stipulate more rigorous but feasible criteria and conditions for environmental protection;

18. Not to issue permits for construction on a site which is in the process of denationalisation;

19. Harmonizing the changes of the legal regulations in this area that are correlated, through participation of representatives of the scholarly and expert public;

20. Laws that entail responsibilities on the part of the local government to be passed and changed in obligatory consultations with the representatives of that local government;

21. Municipalities and the Government should apply an impartial treatment of demolishing illegal constructions and sanctioning the law offenders;

22. The announced legalization of the illegal constructions, by means of passing a separate law, to be implemented on the basis of as detailed as possible prescribed criteria and conditions, in whose defining the expert, scholarly, and wider public will be involved.