Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen

The Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV ) in Austria is responsible for cadastral surveying and is the national metrology institute. His responsibilities include the following items:

  • Management of the land cadastre in Austria: The Cadastre is the planliche description of all land in Austria and is everywhere in digital form. He serves as an accompanying element to the land register.
  • Create and maintain the official survey points ( horizontal and vertical control points ): identify points that serve as starting points for land survey must be available in the populated area at intervals of about 700 to 1200 m.
  • Operation of the GPS satellite positioning service Austrian Positioning Service ( APOS )
  • Management of the digital landscape and terrain elevation model and the database name GEONAM Austria
  • Production of the official Austrian Maps: The following maps are produced and proceeds continuously: Austrian map 1:50,000 ( ÖK 50, and in magnification 1:25.000), 1:200,000 ( ÖK 200), 1:500,000
  • Orthophotos and aerial maps
  • Surveying and administrative work related to the state border
  • Leadership of the National Metrology Institute ( NMI), which provides measurement standards according to the SI unit system.
  • Physico- technical inspection service for the technical implementation of calibration and testing of measuring instruments under connection to the national standards.

To perform the tasks, the BEV has in addition to the central institutions of the basic tasks in Vienna branch offices throughout Austria. These are run as surveying offices or Metrology and Surveying Offices ( full functionality ) or as information centers (only for party traffic, provide information).

Basis for the work of the BEV form the following laws:

  • Article 10 of the Federal Constitutional Law: Federal competence for demarcation of frontiers, surveying, measurements and weights.
  • § 845 ff of the General Civil Code: Controls the definition of property boundaries
  • General Administrative Procedure Act
  • Ground estimate Law
  • Property division law
  • State Borders Act
  • Surveying Act
  • Surveying Regulation
  • Survey Fee Regulation
  • Dimension and Weights and Measures Act

In addition, there are numerous other laws provisions on the Surveying ( Forest Act, soil evaluation law, etc.) and verifiable legal issues ( Zeitzählgesetz, packaging regulations, etc.)

Statute
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