A meeting of the EGT council took place on 22 January. Alvar Soesoo, the director of the survey gave an overview of fulfilling the 2018 action plan and presented the action plan for the year 2019. Moreover, the members of the council received an overview of activities of the EGT testing laboratory, and other relevant topics were dealt with.
The council of the Geological Survey of Estonia gave an approval for the 2019 action plan of the survey. The council members emphasized that the survey could do more co-operation with target groups, such as building entrepreneurs, when doing overviews of geological and geochemical investigations of mineral resources. If possible, the starting point in selecting resources to be studied could be the needs of the target groups.
The EGT council is a structure acknowledged by the minister of economic affairs and infrastructure, which advices the director in confirming or changing the budget and action plan of the survey. A task of the council is also to assess the application of Earth resources policy in science and exploration.
