Challenges for Surveyor`s Certification Aldis Rausis Rīga,

The aim of certification: Promotion and strengthening of professional know-how of surveyors to ensure high quality measurments of parcel`s boundaries to ensure high quality measurments of parcel`s boundaries

Certification System of Latvia Starts from 2007 Governmental regulations defines: 3 types of certificates 3 types of certificates Institutions of certification Institutions of certification Requirements for surveyors Requirements for surveyors Procedures of certification Procedures of certification Surveillance of surveyors Surveillance of surveyors

Requirements for cadastral surveyors:  Education  Experience  Knowledge

Surveillance of surveyors  Regular checking  Complaints checking  Control measurments  Practitioner surveyor as expert

Indications of malfunction  More complaints for Cadastral data quality  Rejections for registration increased  Border disputes increased

Basic reasons  Competition of certifiers  Decreased fees  less control measurments  “Mild” s urveillance  Different requirements for certification  Colleques as experts?

Solutions  Certification as state function  Under State Land Service responsibility  Delegate to ONE certification authority  Independent experts?

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