On October 7, 2024, in the List of the Legislative and Program Works of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Draft Act on Amendments to the Law – Geodetic and Cartographic Law and the Act on Amendments to the Law on Spatial Planning and Development was released.
The draft act responds to the needs of the district authorities and investors. This is because currently, based on the amendment to the Law on Planning and Spatial Development, until December 31, 2024, district offices can maintain base maps in vector form or in raster form supplemented with vector data. These maps form the basis of planners’ work.
According to information obtained by the Ministry of Development and Technology, district offices need much more time to convert their base maps into digital ones, and if they do not create an appropriate database, they will not have a legal basis for keeping base maps in analog form. In turn, without maps, investments cannot be designed.
The deadline is therefore to be moved to the end of 2027.
