Law No. LP467/2003 “On informatization and state information resources.”

This Law establishes the basic rules and conditions for activities in the field of creation and development of national information infrastructure as an area of the functioning of the information society of the Republic of Moldova, regulates legal relations arising in the process of formation and use of state automated information resources, creation and use of information technologies, systems and networks. It does not apply to relations arising from creation and functioning of mass media, formation and use of non-state information resources, as well as when processing undocumented information. Spatial terrain model shall be intended a set of descriptive and spatial data, presented in digital form, intended to reproduce three-dimensional views of terrain, topographical objects and additional information in accordance with established conditions in real time. State ownership rights, including intellectual property, to state information resources are acquired and sold through sectoral public authorities. The National Geographic Information System displays information as spatial model of the terrain with the possibility of spatial analysis for obtaining objective primary information about objects of natural resource potential of the country in the interests of developing civil society. State information resources are open and publicly accessible.