In the Ministry of Agriculture, personal changes took place at the top leadership of the Department of Lands and Mapping in late 1994, as both Department Head Mr. Sándor Zsámboki, and his deputy, Dr. Sándor Szőke Tasi retired late last year. The new Head of the Department, as was circulated to CERCO members, is Dr. György Fenyő. The Deputy Head of the Department is Mr. Ferenc Bartos, who leads also the area Surveying and (newly added) Informatics. By closing the former section for Cadastre and Informatics a new section for Land Registration has been established. Organizational changes, among them intentions to strengthen the Agency both as regards authority and finances, are still in the planning stage.

There are 115 District Land Offices, 19 County Land Offices, the Budapest Land Office and the Budapest Districts Land Office.

Commissioned by the Department of Lands and Mapping, MoA, the Földmérési és Távérzékelési Intézet (Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing - FÖMI) is responsible for the supervision of government contracts in mapping and cadastre and also for R+TD works of the Hungarian Agency on Land Administration and Mapping.

The governmental authority keeps contact with the professional societies and institutions including the academic ones (the Committee on Geodetic Science of the Hungarian Academy of Science and with its subcommittees).

The privatisation of the former state owned large companies in the field geodesy and/or cartography will be completed in the near future. A share of min.25% will still remain with the government.

Close professional cooperation links the Agency on Land Administration and Mapping with the Army Mapping Service headed by Colonel József Cseri at the Ministry of Defense, especially in the field of standardisation and geodetic networks. (Two highlits have to be mentioned here: The conceptual model for the standard of military digital topographic maps have been prepared in the last year by the Army Mapping Service and has been accepted as standard, and the Digital Topographic Database (1:50 000) will be marketed very soon.) Representatives of the Agency on Land Administration and Mapping were kindly invited by the military mapping colleagues to participate the NATO Workshop held in Budapest on Mapping, Charting and Geodesy Partnership in last November.

The number of independent surveyors are over 1000. The Hungarian Society of Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing (MFTTT) promotes new technologies among its members. A self-organized institution of the independent surveyors is missing, but the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers has a division devoted to surveying and mapping.

In the field of education and training, the institutions can be classified in three categories:

• University level
  • Budapest Technical University 3 Chairs in the Faculty Civil Engineering
  • Eötvös L. University of the Sciences, Chair of Map Science in Budapest
• College level
  • College on Surveying and Land Management at Székesfehérvár of the University of Forestry and Timber Industry
• Secondary school level
  • 5 secondary schools having special orientation in surveying in even distribution in the country

New acts are as follow:

XV.1995 Subject: Modification of Act on Committees of Land re-organisation...

XXXVIII. 1995 Subject: Modification of the Compensation Act (XXV/1991)

New regulations

Order No.12/1995(V.4) of the Minister of MoA in subject modification of the Ministerial Order of 1991 regulating the supply, use of and payment for geoinformation data

Order No.21/1995(VI.29) of the Minister of MoA in subject: Producing and Handling Data Sets of Digital Surveying Base Map.

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