The Building Identification Number (NIP), nicknamed the property’s “citizen card”, will have a pilot project in Alfândega da Fé and Lousã from January, before reaching the rest of the country.
“What we will do now is a mere pilot, at the beginning of the year, in two integrated landscape management areas [AIGP]to allow testing the system, effectively fine-tuning what will then be its evolution and expansion”, by the end of the year, “to the entire national territory”, he told Lusa, quoted by , Carla Mendonça, coordinator of eBUPi – Mission Structure for Expansion of the Simplified Registration Information System.
This test will be on the AIGP of Alfândega da Fé (Bragança) and Serra da Lousã (Coimbra), which are supported by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). “It is a completely disruptive, innovative project” and aims to extend to the entire country, “not only in municipalities without registration where we are making this identification, but also in municipalities that already have registration”.
“It’s what we call a kind of ‘citizen card’ that will allow the property to be identified with a unique number and we will no longer see those varied identifiers that we have for the property depending on each entity, the description number, the matrix number, the installment number”, he told the same source, highlighting the importance of ensuring “greater security of the information that each entity has about the property”.
The AIGPs, says the General Directorate of Territory, adopt “an integrated territorial approach to respond to the need for planning and managing the landscape and increasing the forest area managed on a scale that promotes resilience to fires”.
“Property is a unique physical reality, it makes no sense to be identified with several identifiers”, so the NIP will contribute to “a holistic vision of the territory” and will help “to be able to contribute to territorial policies”, such as “transformation of the landscape, of preventing and fighting fires”.
According to Carla Mendonça, the Balcão Único do Prédio (BUPi) has already allowed 380 thousand people to identify around 2.5 million properties, corresponding to “32% of the total area” missing in the 156 participating municipalities. “Basically, the 15 municipalities of the Azores have not yet joined” and “Lisbon has not joined, […] just to serve the citizen”, in addition to São João da Madeira. The expectation is that “at the beginning of next year” the Azores will also participate.
The initiative has funding of “around 45 million euros” and is part of the PRR, aiming “at the registration of rural property and the land occupation monitoring system”. eBUPi does not have administrative or financial autonomy, with its execution being the responsibility of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice. The General Directorate of the Territory manages the “cadastral letter” and interoperability with the Institute of Registries and Notaries and the Tax Authority, while BUPi will deliver the NIP to citizens, companies and public entities.
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