XXII Porto Congress, Portugal 2022
On the 16th to 18th May 2022, 16 al 18 de mayo 2022, and with two years of delay due to pandemic, took place in Porto, Portugal, the 22nd International IPRA-CINDER Congress. The topics of the congress were:
I – Land Registry and Globalization
Various issues can be addressed under this theme, such as the legal instruments of standardization, unification and harmonization of law and their impact on Land Registration; the globalization of legal knowledge through international cooperation networks; or the platforms for exchanging information between different registry systems.
The opening theme being: the international migration and its reflection in the registry activity
The breadth of the theme allows the approach of subjects such as the geographic identification of the immovable and its relevance to the registry publicity; the participation of the land registry in eliminating or reducing territorial imbalances; the collaboration of registries in the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and in the publicity of actual information on beneficial ownership; or the technological revolution, the electronic treatment of personal data and their protection; disruptive technologies; and Big Data.
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The congress brought together more than 500 participants from forty different countries. It is worth mentioning the participation of Turkey, Venezuela and Cuba as new countries and new members of CINDER congress, as well as the African countries of Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau, members of our organisation since 1996.
The opening ceremony took place at the Alfandega, the congress venue, and included a welcome video by the President of the Republic of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. The Portuguese Minister of Justice, Francisca Van Dunem; the President of the Portuguese Registry and Notary Institute, Filomena Rosa; the President of the Association of Portuguese Registrars, Margarida Maria Antunes Martins and the Secretary General of IPRA-CINDER, Alfonso Candau, also took part in the event.
