What is Capital Foncier's Land Conformity Certificate (CCF)?

Nature of the Document

The Certificate of Land Compliance (CCF) is a private contractual deliverable issued by Capital Foncier. It materializes Capital Foncier's commitment to the quality of documentary controls performed on a marketed lot.

The CCF is not:

• an administrative or judicial act
• a public certification
• a title of ownership
• a document enforceable against a third party before the courts

Not to be confused with CF (Rural Land Certificate)

The acronym CF designates, under Ivorian law, the Land Certificate (Certificat Foncier) rural issued by AFOR (Agence Foncière Rurale / Rural Land Agency) under Law No. 98-750 of December 23, 1998 as amended, on the basis of Decree No. 2019-266. It is an official act recording customary rights recognized on a rural parcel, an intermediate step toward registration as a rural Land Title.

The CCF (with two "C"s) is a distinct acronym, specific to Capital Foncier, designating a private deliverable and not a public act. The double initial explicitly aims to remove any ambiguity with the rural CF.

Controls covered by the CCF

The CCF attests that Capital Foncier has performed the following verifications on the lot:

• Legal: title of ownership (ACD, TF or CMPF as applicable), chain of transfers, absence of uncleared mortgage registration
• Technical: approved subdivision plan, boundary demarcation, IDUFCI, cadastral concordance
• Administrative: domain status, tax situation certificate, compliance with the Urban Code (Law 2020-624)
• Tax: regularity of land taxes, registration duties
• Court: absence of ongoing disputes on the parcel
• Partner Notary: validation by notary before commercialization

Secured Reference

Each CCF bears a unique reference in the format CCF-AAAA-NNNN-XXXX (e.g. CCF-2026-0001-A7X9):

• AAAA: year of issuance
• NNNN: sequential number
• XXXX: random suffix (prevents enumeration)

The reference is publicly verifiable via capital-foncier.com/verification/[ref] and via QR code.

Value and Limitations

The CCF testifies to Capital Foncier's documentary rigor on the parcel at the time of commercialization. It accompanies the buyer until delivery of the public title by the competent authority (Land Registry for the urban Land Title, AFOR for rural land).

It never replaces:

• the Land Title (public act, unassailable and imprescriptible, issued by the DGI / General Tax Directorate)
• the ACD (Arrêté de Concession Définitive / Definitive Concession Decree, administrative act)
• the CMPF (Certificat de Mutation de Propriété Foncière / Land Ownership Transfer Certificate, transfer on existing TF, Art. 223 Urban Code)
• the rural CF (Certificat Foncier AFOR, Law 98-750)

Land Title: created by the CPFH during the ACD procedure (step 3), before signature; the ACD published in the Land Register counts as the published Land Title. There is no separate ACD → Land Title timeline: the official timeframe for the whole procedure is 180 calendar days (BÂTIR N°004, 2022), often longer in practice.