diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index eba71e69106f8b58fb56e2aeef56ff5215c9bbc4..07f797672b16406e15f46d50e2b64aaf08f70013 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ variables:
   HELM_EXPERIMENTAL_OCI: "1"
   CICHART_IMAGE: "$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE/cichart:latest"
   GEOSPHERE_TAG_REGEX: "^r[0-9]+_[0-9]+"
-  GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX: "^test-r[0-9]+_[0-9]+"
+#  GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX: "^test-r[0-9]+_[0-9]+"
+  GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX2: "test-r[0-9]+_[0-9]+"
   GCP_TAG_REGEX: "^gcp-r[0-9]+_[0-9]+"
 #  TESTS_BRANCH_REGEX: "^master"
   # only run tests for branches in the main repository
diff --git a/ci_geosphere-test/gitlab-ci.yaml b/ci_geosphere-test/gitlab-ci.yaml
index 5d83ec927e84a527a0f23e0e36a8ff20f5f63629..a3e8366978c053ea5d80a2e3a311d97fa787782c 100644
--- a/ci_geosphere-test/gitlab-ci.yaml
+++ b/ci_geosphere-test/gitlab-ci.yaml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ gstest debug tags2:
     - echo "Tag ${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"
     - echo "Regex ${GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX}"
   rules:
-    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG !~ /test-r[0-9]+_[0-9]+/
+    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG !~ /$GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX2/
       when: never
     - when: on_success
 
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ gstest debug tags3:
     - echo "Tag ${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"
     - echo "Regex ${GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX}"
   rules:
-    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG !~ /${GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX}/
+    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG !~ /$GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX/
       when: never
     - when: on_success