Competencia de la Agencia Nacional de Tierras para la Ejecución de Procedimientos Catastrales con Efectos Registrales en Bienes Inmuebles de la Zona Rural del Territorio de Colombia

Abstract

This paper presents an in-depth examination of the responsibilities assigned to the National Land Agency in relation to cadastral procedures that produce registry effects, as outlined in Decree No. 1170 of 2015, which was later amended by Decree No. 148 of 2020 and Joint Resolution No. 1101 issued by IGAC and No. 11344 by the SNR in 2020. These procedures are specifically analyzed in the context of correcting or modifying boundaries and/or land areas of public lands that were granted by the predecessors of the current agency—namely, the Colombian Institute for Agrarian Reform and the Colombian Institute for Rural Development. This study takes into account rulings by the Council of State, which addressed jurisdictional disputes between the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute and the National Land Agency. In these decisions, the Council affirmed that the National Land Agency holds the proper authority to handle requests involving the correction of boundaries and/or land areas as recorded in official acts concerning the allocation of public lands previously carried out by the aforementioned institutions.