diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 07f797672b16406e15f46d50e2b64aaf08f70013..a31749cd51285a564617247aac71b9cdc3c720ae 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ variables:
   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_REGEX2: "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 a3e8366978c053ea5d80a2e3a311d97fa787782c..80eafd5a26beb5605f1f7801a51cedf0ab2a073a 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: $CI_COMMIT_TAG !~ /$GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX2/
+    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG !~ $GEOSPHERE_TEST_TAG_REGEX2
       when: never
     - when: on_success