SEIS

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Changing times with serious environmental and
development implications Chris Steenmans
2nd CEN/TC 287 Mediterranean Workshop UN FAO
10-11 June 2008, Rome
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Todays main environmental issues
Source Eurobarometer, March 2008
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42 of EU citizens feel poorly informed about
environmental issues
Source Eurobarometer, March 2008
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Source Eurobarometer, March 2008
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Who do you trust most when it comes to
environmental issues?
Intern. Organisations
European Union
Source Eurobarometer, March 2008
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European Commission CommunicationTowards a
Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS)

• Better decisions from local to global level
  need better and more timely information, based on
  more efficient monitoring and reporting systems

S Dimas, Feb 2008
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SEIS at Centre of NewEEA Strategy
2009-2013Draft May 2008

• 3 strategic objectives
• Securing the objectives of EU environmental
  legislation
• Cross-cutting areas of the acquis communautaire
• Global and international perspective

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Scope of SEIS

• Improve
• Modernise
• Streamline
• the present
• information
• systems

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VisionFrom reporting to online services
The current data flows
Live Information Systems
Member states
Organisations
Organisations
Member states
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Principles

• Data and information should be
• managed as close as possible to its source
• collected once and shared with others for many
  purposes
• readily available to public authorities and
  enable them to easily fulfil reporting
  obligations
• accessible to enable end-users to make
  comparisons at the appropriate geographic scale
  and to participate meaningfully in the
  development and implementation of environmental
  policy
• available to the general public after due
  consideration of the appropriate level of
  aggregation, given possible confidentiality
  constraints, and at national level in the
  national language(s).

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How ?

• better integration and sharing
• online information services
• distributed information management
• local, national, European, global
• serving policy makers and public
• two-way communication
• e-reporting
• using existing e-infrastructure

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Understanding the context
Inspire
GMES
SDI
SEIS
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SEIS components EEA node
Content
emvironmental data centres
Infrastructure and services
Organisation
Networking, Eionet, Group of 4, EPAs, agreements,
country visits...
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Examples of existing international, national,
regional and local initiatives
SEIS Building Blocks
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EEA web map services statistics
User sessions 40.000/month
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EEA is working with
Building Partnership
EEA member countries
EEA collaborating countries
European Neighbourhood Policy
ENP South
ENP East
Strategic Partnership
Strategy for a new partnership for Central Asia
Central Asia

• EEA 32
• Monaco
• Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of
  Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia

gt COM(2008)319 Barcelona Process Union for the
Mediterranean Horizon 2020 Proposal to set up
a Mediterrenean Shared Environmental Infomation
System (SEIS)

• Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya,
  Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia  

• Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova,
  Ukraine

• Russian Federation

• Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,
  Tajikistan

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Some concluding reflections...
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Does one SEIS fit all?
A Network to enhance a European
Environmental Shared and Interoperable
Information System
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Is it a SEIS XSmall or XXLarge ?
Source www.evergrow.org
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Road map for SEIS implementation
EC Communication SEIS
2008
Political commitment SEIS
2009
SEIS implementation plan
2010
Revised EC standardised reporting directive
2011
First Inspire data services
2012
Online e-reporting systems
2013
GMES space infrastructure