Organization and competence of the geodetic service

Present situation

The present organization and competence of the national geodetic service and its activities are mostly based on the Geodetic Activities Act and on the Recording of Real Estate, State Boundary and Spatial Units Act that were passed in 2000.
Pursuant to the Geodetic Activities Act, the geodetic service is a part of the geodetic activities, which include the setting up, keeping and maintaining the data collections of the basic geodetic system, records of real estate, the state boundary, spatial units, house numbers and the topographic and cartographic systems. The geodetic service may function at the national and local levels. 
The tasks of the national geodetic service are performed by the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, the tasks of the local geodetic service are performed by municipalities, whereas the developmental and certain professional and technical tasks are performed by the Geodetic Institute of Slovenia within the framework of the national geodetic service. Certain professional-technical and developmental tasks in the fields of topographic and cartographic systems for the needs of the national defence are performed by the Ministry of Defence in co-operation with the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia.

The Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, which is a part of the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, is composed of the head office and 12 regional geodetic administrations with 46 branch offices. The Geodetic Activities Act defines the competence and tasks of individual organizational units of the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia in detail.

Regional geodetic administrations

The entire Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia had 565 full-time employees as at 19 July 2001. A major part of them had secondary level education (39,3 %), 18,6 % of employees completed college education and 36,6 % of employees had the university or the postgraduate education. In addition, there were 14 probationers temporarily employed. Out of the total number of 565 employees, 58 were full-timers in the head office. Regarding the level of education of full-time employees, the situation in the head office was the following: 15,52 % of employees had secondary education, 12,07 % of employees had college education and 72,41 % of employees had university education (two of them had M.Sc. degree and one had PhD degree). 

In comparison with the last year's staff structure, it is improving in favour of the employees with university education (an increase by 12,63 %), which is in accordance with the vision of the national geodetic service in the next period. 

The professional tasks and procedures referring to the geodetic service's tasks defined (by the Act) as geodetic services can be performed only by the geodetic companies that are licensed to perform geodetic services. 134 licences were issued until the end of July 2001.

Activities in past year

Regarding the organization and competence of the national geodetic service, most efforts were devoted to preparing the Geodetic Activities Act and to concluding contracts with external contractors for performing individual geodetic services. Due to the transfer of the entire national geodetic service to the state competence and owing to adopting the new regulations, it is necessary to amend the corresponding personnel-financial instructions, which refer to the work of regional geodetic administrations and their branch offices.