Ministerial Decree No. 1021 of 1999 regarding validation of the Regulation on Federal Geodetic and Cartographic Service.

The Government decrees to validate the Regulation. Federal Geodetic and Cartographic Service (ROSKARTOGRAFIJA) is Federal Executive Body entitled with special functions (executive, control, supervision, authorizing, regulating and so on) in the field of geodetic and cartographic activity and denomination of geographic objects. ROSKARTOGRAFIJA is a specially authorized Federal Body in the field of environmental protection within the sphere of its competence as well as in the sphere of denomination of geographic objects. ROSKARTOGRAFIJA and its territorial branches (state geodetic survey inspections) and its subordinate organizations carry out the activity within the sphere of its competence in co-ordination with other Federal Executive Bodies, regional and local authority, juridical and physical persons. The modalities of cooperation of ROSKARTOGRAFIJA with the competent Federal Executive Body in the sphere of national defence as regards the execution of geodetic and cartographic activity in the interests of national defence and security are regulated by the joint regulation validated by the both above-mentioned bodies.