The government has decided to suspend deliberations over Google’s request to export high-precision digital maps of South Korea amid lingering national security concerns.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced Tuesday that the decision had been made during a meeting of the interagency consultative body on overseas data exports, which voted to require the U.S. tech giant to submit a supplementary application by February 5 of next year.

The government will hold off on making any related decisions until it receives the requested submission.

In September, Google publicly expressed its intent to comply with the government’s security requirements, including blurring security facilities and removing the coordinates of places in South Korea. However, it did not submit the additional documentation that was expected.

Due to the inconsistencies on Google’s part, the consultative body explained that it had been challenging to deliberate accurately, adding that clear confirmation and review of Google’s plans will be necessary before a final decision is made.

The government has twice postponed a decision on the request Google made in February to export South Korea's 1:5,000-scale high-precision map data.

South Korea prohibits overseas transfers of high-precision maps with a scale finer than 1:25,000 for military and security reasons.