“…public authorities who in their scope, ie their jurisdiction, have the establishment or maintenance of spatial data referred to in Article 9, paragraph 1, of this Act and which in terms of this Act are obliged to participate in the establishment, maintenance and development of the NSDI.”
Public authorities include state authorities, bodies of local and regional self-government units and legal entities with public authority.
The NSDI Act also provides the possibility of the inclusion of the third parties in the NSDI under certain conditions: “A third party may become a subject of the NSDI if it meets the conditions set out in the NSDI Act after the NSDI Council has made an appropriate decision on this according to the proposal of the National Contact Point.”
In accordance with the above, if your institution creates spatial data on the basis of a special law, then we consider it a NSDI subject.
Example: Pursuant to the Law on State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre, the State Geodetic Administration (SGA) is responsible for state surveying, real estate cadaster, infrastructure cadastre, register of buildings, register of spatial units and register of geographical names. Within these stated competencies, spatial data that are part of the NSDI are created, so the SGA is a NSDI subject.