

The two-day event, on 3 and 4 October, was officially opened by Dr Sándor Fazekas, Minister of Agriculture, Hungary with a welcome address from Mr Gabor Fekete, Director General, FÖMI and speakers from the European Commission, United Nations, EuroSDR and European Location Framework (ELF) Project as well as EuroGeographics’ members and Management Board.ĭiscussions focused on unlocking the power of geospatial information from official sources through future European location services. More than 120 leaders and senior representatives from 51 organisations in 41 countries attended the annual General Assembly organised and hosted by the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI) and supported by the Geoinformation Service of Hungarian Defence Forces, Hungary.

These are: EuroGeographics Vice President, Hansjoerg Kutterer from the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Germany Sylvain Latarget, National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information, France and David Henderson from Ordnance Survey, Great Britain. The EuroGeographics Management Board also comprises: Wernher Hoffmann, Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying, Austria and three representatives from the Association’s principal contributors: France, Germany and Great Britain. In addition, Angela Matcov, State Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre, Moldova and Ingrid Vanden Berghe, National Geographic Institute, Belgium were both re-elected, with members also voting Mrs Vanden Berghe President for a further two years. EuroGeographics has announced a new Management Board comprising senior representatives from Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registry Authorities.ĭuring the Association’s 2016 General Assembly in Budapest, Hungary, members elected Anne Cathrine Frøstrup, Norwegian Mapping Authority Konstantin Koltonyuk, Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr), Russia and Darko Vujetic, Republic Geodetic Authority, Serbia to the Board.
