ORIGINAL NATIONAL SURVEY POINTS MAY NEITHER BE RELOCATED NOR DISMANTLED
The Government issues the Decree No. 27/2019/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Law on Survey and Mapping on March 13, 2019.
Accordingly, the updating cycle of the national fundamental geographic database means the maximum interval between two times of data updating, which is prescribed below: within no more than 5 years, the national fundamental geographic database shall be updated.
For medium- and small-scale national fundamental geographic databases of Vietnam’s maritime zones, the updating cycle is no more than 7 years; transport and population databases shall be updated annually; within the updating cycle, component data that see changes exceeding 20% shall be updated; instant updating is required when national border and administrative boundary data see any changes…
Particularly, original national survey points may neither be relocated nor dismantled. The relocation and dismantlement of remote sensing satellite ground stations must comply with the Decree on remote sensing activities. The relocation and dismantlement of geodetic markers and satellite positioning stations may be carried out when due to requirements of socio-economic development and assurance of national defense and security, a survey infrastructure work cannot continue to exist or operate normally according to national standards and technical regulations and technical rules; due to the impacts of natural conditions and disasters, a geodetic marker is lost or damaged, or due to other external impacts, a geodetic marker is lost or damaged or displaced or a survey infrastructure work expires and can no longer be used or is replaced by another one.
This Decree takes effect on May 01, 2019.
