Armenia’s Cabinet approves draft to fix address discrepancies
Cadastre Committee head Suren Tovmasyan says mismatched addresses can prevent ambulance crews from finding callers. The draft now goes to parliament.
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Cadastre Committee head Suren Tovmasyan says mismatched addresses can prevent ambulance crews from finding callers. The draft now goes to parliament.
Armenia’s Cabinet approved draft amendments to the property-rights registration law on 12 November, seeking to correct missing and inaccurate addresses. Cadastre Committee head Suren Tovmasyan presented the proposal at the meeting.
Tovmasyan said ambulance crews sometimes cannot find callers because an address on a property-registration certificate appears on a different property in an electronic navigation system. He said the amendments would help resolve missing or deficient addresses and help finalize address databases over the next few years.
The committee began reviewing address assignment and its database 3 years earlier, Tovmasyan said. After a national address standard took effect in 2025, it consolidated past assignment decisions to match the standard. He said 1.5 million addresses had already been standardized and entered electronically, separate from the proposed legal changes.
Under the current process, an applicant approaches the municipality, which sends a preliminary address to the Cadastre Committee for checking. The community head then assigns the address, and the applicant separately applies to the committee to register it after the decision is uploaded. The draft’s authors consider the process used since 2021 ineffective and insufficient to address properties without addresses or fix existing defects, Iravaban.net said, citing the draft’s justification.
The draft would define a unified official electronic address database, created and maintained by the real-estate state register under government-set procedures. The draft is expected to reduce unnecessary administrative steps and create a complete, standardized address database. The register could propose addresses for properties without them or corrections for addresses that do not meet requirements. Authorized address-assignment bodies would retain the power to decide assignments and changes.
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If an authorized body neither approved a proposal nor objected in writing within 3 months, the register could enter its proposed address in the database, but only for property whose rights were already registered. A new or changed address could be processed separately from property-rights registration and would take effect when entered in the database.
Address assignment or changes for registered properties would be free. In Yerevan, free address changes would apply only to properties addressed after the city acquired community status. For unregistered properties, authorized bodies acting on register proposals would issue address decisions specifying the local fee payable.
An address decision would be required in several cases, including first registration when title documents lack a compliant address, an address mapped to another property, and property mergers or divisions, subject to legal exceptions. It would also be required for registered properties missing essential address components that the register cannot supply. Registration would be suspended if a required decision or applicable local-fee receipt were missing.
A different discrepancy would not itself stop a later registration if a registered property’s address included both the name of the relevant geographical feature within the settlement and the property’s number. The applicant would be told a correction was needed, and the register would take steps to correct and include the address.
Registered rights holders would receive notice of new or changed addresses through their personal account in the Cadastre Committee’s electronic system. They could apply for a replacement registration certificate recording the change.
The draft is to be submitted to the National Assembly. If enacted as proposed, it would take effect 2 months after official publication, while implementing regulations would be adopted within 2 months of the law’s adoption.
The register would then have 3 years from commencement to enter qualifying addresses already held in its systems into the unified database.
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