BDVI Portrait
The Association of Publicly Appointed Surveyors (BDVI ) is the professional group of the publicly appointed surveyors in Germany. As an economic and professional association the BDVI represents the interests of its members within the association as well as towards the political, economic and administrative sector. Publicly appointed surveyors are liberal professionals appointed by the state who are entrusted with sovereign responsibilities in the field of surveying. They are comparable to notaries, performing public services in a private organization. Publicly appointed surveyors are subordinated to supervision by the state. They are not allowed to receive any instructions or to carry on a trade. Their behaviour is marked by neutrality and personal responsibility. Publicly appointed surveyors are technical service providers in respect to all tasks concerning plots and properties as well as advisers and mediators between the economic and the administrative sector.
By delegating sovereign responsibilities to publicly appointed surveyors, the state has so far been able to reduce wage costs and labour costs involving more than 15,000 employees. The BDVI makes an effort to drive forward the principle of relieving the burden on state in the area of public surveying by transferring all non administrative tasks to publicly appointed surveyors. On the one hand the service of surveying exercised by publicly appointed surveyors is efficient, competitive, client-centred and often more economical, and on the other hand the administrations can concentrate on their administrative tasks.
The publicly appointed surveyors’ professional law as well as the law on planning building projects and the land registry law have not yet been settled along the same standards for the whole Federal Republic of Germany. The Bavarian land surveying offices have been reserving the right to carry out cadastral surveys exclusively since 1909. With regard to the further unification of Europe the BDVI considers it as its main duty to do some convincing in order to standardize the surveying and professional law.
The advertising ban prevents the publicly appointed surveyors from familiarizing the citizens and the economy with their profession as well as with the field of surveying in general including its tasks. In this area the BDVI wants to create transparency by public relations work at the association level. Publicly appointed surveyors do not only provide services for municipal institutions but also for private clients, property developers, technical administrations as well as for properties of industrial, structural and civil engineering and road building.
October 2002
Contact:
BDVI Office
Luisenstraße 46
D 10117 Berlin
Phone: +49-30-2408383
Fax: +49-30-24083859
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