More building data accessible
The management of company master data and access to federal building information are to be simplified in the future. This was decided by the Federal Council at a meeting on March 4 as part of a partial revision of the Ordinance on the Business and Company Register (BURV).
In the age of digitization, it no longer makes sense for each federal administrative unit to individually manage and maintain its own master data. This will also increasingly apply to master data from companies, which in future will be managed jointly and made available to the administrative units of the Confederation, cantons and municipalities.
The Federal Council has now approved the partial revision of the Ordinance on the Business and Company Register (BURV) in a meeting on March 4, 2022. For its part, the revision of the annex to the Ordinance on the Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings (VGWR) provides for an expansion of the publicly accessible information and thus strengthens the potential of the GWR reference information system, the Federal Council writes in a statement.
According to the Federal Council, the Ordinance on the Business and Company Register is intended to regulate more transparently and clearly what specific information is included in the company master data. In the future, this information is to be made available to all authorities via electronic interfaces in order to fulfill their legal duties.
More reference data of buildings and apartments accessible
The data of the register of buildings and dwellings (GWR) serve as reference data of buildings and dwellings both for purposes of statistics, research and planning (art. 1 VGWR) and for the fulfillment of statutory tasks (art. 1 para. 2 VGWR).
During the total revision of this ordinance in 2017, publicly accessible housing data (authorization level A) was defined restrictively according to the Federal Council. In order to meet the current situation of the digital age, more information is now to be brought together centrally.
This would create the prerequisite for e-government services such as the National Relocation Service (eMove): all citizens who move can indicate there to which apartment they are moving. However, this requires sufficient publicly accessible data on the apartments so that they can be clearly identified, according to the Federal Council.
In addition, as part of the consolidation of data, building services installations will now also be made publicly accessible. In this way, the data of the heating systems can be made available in a simplified way for monitoring the CO2 emissions of the buildings.
Source: The Federal Council
