On January 30th 2014, it has been published the Law 2/2014, of creation of the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia and suppression of the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia and the Geological Institute of Catalonia. This new institution becomes operational on February 1st 2014.
Their duties are related to the competences of geodesy and cartography and about the spatial data infrastructure of Catalonia, and also the competences of promoting and carrying out the actions related to the awareness, survey and information about the soil and subsoil, as regulated by the Law 16/2005, of December 27th, on geographic information and the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia, and by the Law 19/2005, of December 27th, on the Geological Institute of Catalonia.