On September 04, 2024, the forty-second session of the SDI Council of FBiH was held at the premises of the Federal Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs.

The following agenda items were discussed at the Council meeting:

1. Approval of the agenda for the 42nd session of the SDI Council of FBiH;
2. Adoption of the minutes from the previous 41st session of the SDI Council of FBiH;
3. Information on the implementation of the Work Plan for the establishment, maintenance, and development of the SDI of FBiH for Year 2024;
4. Information on the status of the activities of the working groups from the previous session;
5. Adoption of Implementation Rules for SDI stakeholder registers;
6. Adoption of Implementation Rules for SDI FBiH metadata;
7. Information about the new donor project of the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
8. Information regarding 5th conference “SDI Days of the Federation of BiH”;
9. Other.

As the Coordination Body of the SDI of FBiH, the Federal Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs prepared information for Council members regarding the implementation of the Work Plan for the establishment, maintenance, and development of the SDI of FBiH for 2024. In accordance with the SDI Strategy for the period 2023-2027 and the Action plan for 2024, activities related to increasing the number of entities and available resources continued to improve the level of availability and interoperability of spatial data.

With the adoption of the Law on SDI FBiH, the conditions and the need for the creation of by-laws were created. During the Year 2024, through the implementation of this Plan, with the support of SDI working groups, a formal framework, respectively implementation rules, were developed in accordance with Article 14 of the SDI Act. At the 42nd session, the SDI Council adopted the Implementing Rules for Spatial Data Infrastructure Stakeholder registers and the Implementing Rules for SDI Metadata of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.