Updated: 15.12.2023.
Provision of common registration of constructions, including groups of premises inside buildings, in the country.
Constructions (buildings and civil engineering structures) and groups of premises.
- designing of constructions;
- registration of constructions;
- compilation of construction statistics;
- cadastral surveying, registration and evaluation;
- development of national accounts.
Approved by the Regulations of the Cabinet No. 326 “Regulations on Classification of Buildings" of 12 June 2018.
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Latvia (State Land Service)
Coding system – hierarchical
Code length – eight digits
Number of levels – 6
Description of levels
Level 1 – 2 sections (identified by the first digit of four-digit numerical code);
Level 2 – 6 sub-sections (identified by the first two digits of four-digit numerical code);
Level 3 – 20 groups (identified by the first three digits of four-digit numerical code);
Level 4 – 47 classes (identified by four-digit numerical codes);
Level 5 – 70 type groups (identified by six-digit numerical codes);
Level 6 – 161 types ((identified by eight-digit numerical codes).
More information
Adaptation of the EU Classification of Types of Construction (CC)
Uldis Svilpe
Methodology Expert
Building Methodology Unit
Department of Cadastre
The State Land Service of Latvia
+371 27309677
Uldis.Svilpe@vzd.gov.lv
Mārtiņš Riežnieks
Senior Expert
Department of Construction Policy
Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia
+371 67013140
Martins.Rieznieks@em.gov.lv