SEIS

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Shared Environmental Information System for
Europe SEIS
25 October 2007, Dublin
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What is SEIS?

• SEIS is a collaborative initiative of European
  and National bodies to establish an integrated
  and sustained information system for sharing
  environmental data.

• A system where the public authorities are the
  providers but also the main end-users and
  beneficiaries
• A contribution to the Commissions commitment to
  better regulation and simplification
• (Go4, 2007)

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Towards sharing environmental information...
Time
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3 Drivers

• Content
• Streamlining
• Access

SEIS
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Priorities 6th EAP 2002-2012

• Climate change
• Nature and biodiversity
• Environment and health
• Natural resources and waste
• 7 Thematic Strategies

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SEIS Principles

• information should be managed as close as
  possible to its source
• information is provided once and shared with
  others for many purposes
• data and information should be readily accessible
  
• information should be made available to the
  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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SEIS components
1. Content
emvironmental data centres
2. Infrastructure and tools
3. Organisation
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Different focus
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Building a shared information system for Europe

• To
• Full automated sharing
• Fast updates
• Easy access to data
• Expanded use
• Open protocols

• From
• Centralised reporting
• Manual uploads
• Insufficient take-up
• High barriers to re-use

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From data sharing
France
One European Website
EEA
Germany
UK
Investment
Return
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From data sharing
France
EEA
Germany
web service
UK
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... to sharing accessing information systems
services
France
Potential 800,000 web pages
EEA
Germany
Potential 408,000 web pages
web service
UK
Potential 362,000 web pages
Investment
Return
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What are the benefits of SEIS ?

• at EU level
• Increased European capacity
• Streamlining reporting
• at Member State level
• Report once, use many
• Less duplication of efforts
• At Global level
• Commitments international conventions
• Credibility of EU

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Ozone-web Near-real time ozone data
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Water Information System for Europe
www.water.europa.eu
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SEIS linking existing initiatives
INSPIRE SEIS
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Structure of the INSPIRE based NSDI
National Coordination Structure
EC DG Env JRC Eurostat

• Public authorities holding GI
• metadata
• INSPIRE-data

- 7/24 management - r d
Standards (IR)
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e-commerce services
Licencing anduser management
Measures for sharing
Toimialojen paikkatiedot
Portals
Users Public authorities, citizens, EU-bodies,
(Source Finnish NFP Inspire)
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European Commission Communication on SEIS - end
2007

• It will set out
• the political framework for SEIS an integrated
  and common implementation strategy and
• its links with INSPIRE, GMES/GEOSS and the
  streamlining and updating of reporting and
  monitoring provisions of a) thematic legislation
  both existing and new proposals and b) the
  Reporting directive, Aarhus Convention, etc
• suggest policy options to go from 'Concept to
  Reality'

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October 2007 NFP meeting
EEA SEIS Implementation plan 2008 (7 projects on
Content)

• 5. Land-water-biodiversity integrated
  assessmentIntegrated assessment inputs for the
  EEA SOER2010 report
• 6. Ozone web extensionDemonstrate the
  possibilities to use the system for monthly
  summer ozone exceedance reporting, Consolidate
  the near real-time ozone data to full coverage
  and Extend the system to particulate matter
• 7. Indicators and assessments GHG emissionsTo
  get access to knowledge from national
  assessments, to improve SOER2010 reporting.

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EEA SEIS Implementation plan 2008 (7 projects on
Content) (II)

• 11. Air quality data serviceIntegrate the future
  CAFÉ Directive data flows into the EEA air data
  service.
• 12. Effectiveness of waste policiesCreate a SEIS
  compliant reporting system for information that
  is of another kind.
• 13. SEIS country visits
• 15. EEA SEIS SignalsA first report in November
  2008

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EEA SEIS Implementation plan 2008 (3 projects on
Streamlining)

• 1. Country performance improvements Priority
  DFTarget for 2010 100 reporting performance.
• 2. Reportnet enhancementsFurther develop
  Reportnet
• 3. IMS and CSICreate and agree on a common
  European information base for country benchmarking

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EEA SEIS Implementation plan 2008 (5 projects on
Access)

• 4. SERIS upgradeImprove access to national
  information on SoE
• 8. Land cover data service Web service
  established by end 2008
• 9. GHG data serviceGHG emission data for the
  actual year -1
• 10. WISE data serviceProvide information
  services within WISE, enriching the current
  bathing water information.
• 14. SEIS Data policyDealing with accessing and
  sharing of data and information

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