For the financing of the PLR-cadastre, a distinction is made between the operating costs and those relating to the input and/or updating of the datasets.

Operating costs

The operating costs are borne jointly by the federal government and the cantons.

The federal government pays a share of the operating costs of the PLR-cadastre, which encompass the acquisition of suitable hardware and software components, the training and provision of personnel, data protection and security measures, equipment for telecommunications and data transmission, operating procedures for data transmission and certification of extracts, and supervision and verification processes.

The annual operating costs for the entire country are estimated at around 10 million Swiss francs. The federal government is to pay around half this amount, which means that the federal government and the cantons will each pay around 5 million Swiss francs a year.

The share to be paid by the cantons is to be distributed among them as follows:

• One-fifth is to be allocated to the cantons in equal proportions. This share corresponds to a basic infrastructure to be provided by each canton, regardless of its size or the number of managed public law restrictions on landownership.
  
• Three-fifths calculated according to the population of the canton.
• One-fifth calculated on the basis of the surface area of the canton.

Until the introduction of the PLR-cadastre has been completed, the global federal contributions towards the operating costs are to be calculated in accordance with the status of introduction of the cadastre.

Surveying and updating costs

The financing of the surveying and updating costs is the responsibility of the relevant authorities at the federal, cantonal or municipal level.