Parliamentary committee wants a response from the minister to the KNB letter about the Environment Act

The Standing Committee on Home Affairs is awaiting the response from Minister Hugo de Jonge (Housing and Spatial Planning) to the letter from the Royal Dutch Association of Civil-Law Notaries (KNB) regarding the Environment Act. In it, the KNB raises the issue of a potential doubling of costs because the Environment Act makes it more difficult for civil-law notaries to retrieve information.

In its letter (pdf) to the minister, the Royal Dutch Association of Estate Agents (KNB) points out that the new Environmental Act makes it much more difficult to determine which (former) public law restrictions apply to real estate. This means that notaries spend more time on research, unnecessarily increasing the costs for real estate buyers.

Solution
According to the Royal Netherlands National Register of Civil Records (KNB), the solution is to legally stipulate that rules must be annotated separately. This would allow the Land Registry to easily include additional data in the Land Registry (BRK), making it searchable through the BRK in a single search.

Commitment
The Royal Netherlands Enterprise Agency (KNB) also reminds the Minister of a promise made by his predecessor: she wanted to establish a link between the Digital Environmental Act System (DSO) and the BRK (Netherlands Institute for Public Works and Water Management) during the development of the DSO. Unfortunately, this link has not been established, and the Ministry now indicates that there is no legal basis for this. The KNB would like to see such a link established.

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The letter was discussed by the Standing Committee on Home Affairs. The committee sent a letter (pdf) to the Royal Netherlands Bar Association (KNB) requesting De Jonge to send a copy of his response to the committee.