News in 2020 
	   
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	New FIG Members
		Welcome to Carlson Software - FIG Corporate member
		
			
				
				  
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				 At its meeting on 17 January 2020, FIG Council 
				approved Carlson Software as FIG Corporate Member in category C 
				- Silver Level. 
				 
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		Founded in 1983, Carlson Software specializes in CAD design software, 
		field data collection, and machine control products for the land 
		surveying, civil engineering, construction, and mining industries 
		worldwide, providing one-source technology solutions from data 
		collection to design to construction. Carlson Software’s renowned 
		dedication to customer service is unique in the industry.
		The mission of Carlson Software:
		
			- To be the premiere independent developer of land surveying, 
			civil engineering, construction and mining technology products.
 
			- To maintain our reputation for technological innovation.
 
			- To provide industry-leading customer service and support.
 
			- To provide one-source technology solutions from data collection 
			to design on through to construction
 
		
		Welcome to Real Estate Administration of Montenegro - affiliate 
		member
		
		The Real Estate Administration performs administrative tasks related 
		to:
		
			- initiating the regulation of normative-legal and other 
			real-legal relations on real estate;
 
			- development of standards of surveying in the field of survey, 
			production of real estate cadastre and underground installations; 
			conducting administrative procedure in the field of property-legal 
			relations and cadastre and ensuring the application and enforcement 
			of real-property and property regulations in Montenegro;
 
			- real estate valuation;
 
			- planning, designing, analyzing and evaluating the accuracy of 
			surveys, real estate cadastre and cartographic works;
 
			- photogrammetric aerial surveys, research and publishing, and 
			other geodetic surveys and the making of originals and reproduction 
			of plans and maps;
 
			- development and maintenance of geodetic networks of all ranks;
 
			- drafting, renewal, amendment and control of the state survey, 
			real estate cadastre and registration of real estate rights;
 
			- execution and supervision of the execution and maintenance of 
			the cadastre of water and underground facilities;
 
			- cadastral classification and land crediting;
 
			- proposing the establishment of a basis for taxation on 
			agricultural activity;
 
			- land surveying and agronomic work on land consolidation;
 
			- development, maintenance and development of GIS in cooperation 
			with the state administration body for the information society;
 
			- national geospatial data infrastructure (NIGP);
 
			- maintenance and development of software for the creation of 
			digital geodetic plans and alpha-numerical data of the cadastral 
			operator and supervision of these operations;
 
			- monitoring and identification of changes occurring in the area, 
			ie implementation of identified changes on the plans and in the 
			cadastral operation;
 
			- registration of changes in real estate rights;
 
			- keeping archives of technical documentation of the state survey, 
			plans, maps and other technical documentation;
 
			- setting up and keeping records of state property consisting of 
			real estate, as well as other tasks assigned to it in the 
			jurisdiction.
 
		
		
		Louise Friis-Hansen
		January 2020