MOSCOW, Aug 4Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that prohibits state bodies and a number of Russian organizations from using foreign geographic information systems, technologies and tools for processing spatial data. The document is published on the official portal of legal information.
The law establishes the features of the organization of cartographic activities. It prohibits from January 1, 2026 the use of foreign geoinformation technologies, geoinformation systems and geoinformation tools by state authorities and local governments, their subordinate organizations, as well as certain types of legal entities.
The ban applies to state corporations, state companies, public companies, natural monopolies; organizations carrying out regulated activities in the field of electricity, gas, heat and water supply, water disposal, waste management; autonomous institutions. In addition, the ban applies to business entities, in the authorized capital of which the share of participation of the Russian Federation, its region, municipality in the aggregate exceeds 50%, as well as their «daughters» and «granddaughters».
In addition, according to the law, if these legal entities perform or purchase geodetic and cartographic works, they will be required to send the received data and materials to the federal spatial data fund.
Russian geographic information systems, tools and technologies used by such bodies and organizations must comply with the requirements of the authorized federal body, agreed with the Ministry of Defense. The list of such systems, technologies, and means will be placed on the federal portal of spatial data.
The law also contains changes related to the creation and operation of the federal network of geodetic stations, including differential ones. At such stations, the signals of satellite navigation systems are constantly received with the transfer of the received information to the state information system of the network. Differential geodetic stations can be created both at the expense of budgetary funds and funds of citizens or legal entities.
These changes are made in order to unite disparate private geodetic stations and improve the accuracy of measurements taken in the course of geodetic and cartographic work.
The law comes into force on April 1, 2024.