Order No.34 of 1999 of the State Committee on Land Policy regarding validation of the Agreement on interaction between the State Committee on Land Policy and Federal Geodetic and Cartographic Service.

The President of the State Committee on Land Policy orders to all structural divisions of the Committee, State Committees on Land Resources and Land Survey of the subjects of the Russian Federation, subordinated enterprises, organizations and institutions to adopt the aforesaid Agreement (attached to the present document) for guidance in carrying out geodetic and cartographic activity in the process of carrying out land survey and keeping state land cadastre. Heads of State Committees on Land resources and Land Survey of the subjects of the Russian Federation must: 1). Organize registration and calculation of geodetic and cartographic work in the process of execution on the subordinated territories and by 1 March annually submit to the Land monitoring Division information on the accomplished work; 2). To provide for annual handing-in to the territorial inspections of the State Geodetic Survey information on the planned and accomplished geodetic and cartographic work. The aforesaid Agreement determines the modalities and contents of interaction between the State Committee on Land Policy and Federal Geodetic and Cartographic Service in the following directions: 1). coordination of geodetic and cartographic work; 2). elaboration and carrying out arrangements aimed at carrying out concerted technical policy in the field of geodetic and cartographic activity; 3). coordination and unification of technical requirements to the final outcome of geodetic and cartographic work and its certification; 4). setting up and keeping geodetic and cartographic funds; 5). licensing of geodetic and cartographic activity.