Al Hoceima Conference Calls for Unified Real Estate Code to Protect Land Rights

The recommendations made at the end of the work of this meeting highlighted the need to bring together the notarial systems in Morocco in a single code and to unify the judicial jurisprudence concerning land disputes in order to secure land rights.

According to Hespress, the participants raised the importance of advocating a participatory approach in the development of legal texts relating to land ownership, as well as of adopting a legislative policy that clearly defines things without any ambiguity.

On this occasion, Professor Azzedine El Mahi, Judge attached to the Presidency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, stressed the need to put an end to material aggression and to review the law on expropriation, inviting experts to make decisions, in terms of compensation adapted to the real value of the land, and not to assign it an arbitrary value, often well below its cost.

For his part, Professor Visiting the Multidisciplinary Faculty of Nador, Fikri Allali, focused his intervention on the protection of the land capital of the soulaliyate communities, governed by customs and norms rather than by legal rules in terms of management and exploitation, considering that it is time to strengthen the protection of the land ownership of these communities.