Seminar on “Urban Planning: Land Concession, Expropriation and Compensation”

The Legal and Judicial Training Centre will organise, during October 17th to 20th, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm, in the auditorium of the Civil Service Training Centre located on Alameda Dr. Carlos D’ Assumpção n.° 322-362, Cheng Feng Commercial Centre, 7th floor, a seminar on “Urban Planning: Land Concession, Expropriation and Compensation”. Integrated as part of the 3rd Macao Special Administrative Region - EU Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, this event will feature the following keynote speakers: 1. Professor Fernando Alves Correia, Professor of the Law Faculty, University of Coimbra, Portugal; 2. Professor Fernando Licínio Lopes Martins, Professor of the Law Faculty, University of Coimbra, Portugal. This event will be conducted in Portuguese, with simultaneous translation into Cantonese. During the four daily sessions, which will take place until October 20th, the following topics, among others, will be discussed sharing a global view on Urban Planning: 1. The urban legal framework of the Macao Special Administrative Region 2. The specific aspects of the legal regime governing land in the Macao Special Administrative Region 2.1 Types of concession 2.2 Procedures for concession 2.3 System of concession 2.4 Vicissitudes of concession: revision, invalidation and reversion 3. The expropriation for public use in the Macao Special Administrative Region 3.1 Concept of expropriation: expropriation in the classic sense and expropriation of sacrifice 3.2 Purpose of expropriation 3.3 Subject of the legal relationship of expropriation 3.4 Presumptions of the legitimacy of expropriation 3.5 Private guarantees in legal expropriation 3.6 Procedure and process of expropriation 4. The legal system of urban planning in the Macao Special Administrative Region 4.1 Functions and modes of planning 4.2 Formation of the planning procedure 4.3 Legal nature of planning 4.4 Relationship between plannings 4.5 Preventive measures 4.6 Dynamics of planning 4.7 Violation of planning 4.8 Planning disputes 4.9 Special cases of indemnification for damage resulting from urban planning and related preventive measures The 3rd Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the Macao Special Administrative Region and the European Union, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective “Promote the Development and Modernisation of the Macao Special Administrative Region’s Legal System” and is going to take place until November 2019. The execution of the Co-operation Programme is coordinated by the Legal Affairs Bureau, together with many entities and public departments of the Macao Special Administrative Region, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Institute of European Studies of Macau, the Economic Services, the Consumer Council and the Social Welfare Bureau.