INSPIRE

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INSPIRE SEISbecause Good Decisions need Good
Information timely available
INSPIRE Scope of the Directive INSPIRE
State-of-Play Implementation INSPIRE, SEIS
e-Government
EC INSPIRE TEAM Joint Research Centre -
Directorate-General Environment EUROSTAT
European Commission Sustainable Development and
Integration Directorate Hugo de Groof,
Meropi.Paneli_at_ec.europa.eu
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Better and timely Information, better and timely
Decisions

• The Sixth Environment Action Programme confirmed
  the crucial need for sound and robust information
• Forest fires, floods and droughts, the challenge
  of adapting to climate change and the loss of
  biodiversity, underline the need for accurate
  environmental information to be made quickly and
  easily available.
• Reporting and Monitoring requirements under
  Community law are the main drive for collecting
  data and information.

European Commission DG Environment Sustainable
Development and Integration Directorate
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• But..
• The vast amount of data collected by public
  authorities across the EU is not timely available
  when it is needed and matters for decision making
• range of obstacles of a legal, financial,
  technical and procedural nature
• Despite good progress with modernising and
  streamlining reporting obligations and systems
  e.g. WISE, the situation is still patchy
• Each piece of environmental legislation has it
  own reporting system and data flows.
• In some cases this data is not even reported
  electronically
• INSPIRE Directive the EU is moving towards a
  distributed system for on-line access and sharing
  of spatial data
• Limited capability to quickly (seamlessly) turn
  data to policy relevant information and implement
  efficiently (seamlessly) integrated approaches to
  environmental policy.

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Therefore INSPIREBringing data and services
together through a Spatial Data Infrastructure
Data and services easily discoverable and
accessible to users
Easier development of new applications and
services
Like a road infrastructure makes it possible to
connect different places, a spatial data
infrastructure makes it possible to connect data
and services located at different sources
GEODATA THE BACKBONE IN EFFECTIVE DIGITAL
ADMINISTRATION The Danish E-government homepage
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In order to built INSPIRE SEIS, we need
Institutional framework Collaboration
Co-ordination The KEYS

• Infrastructure
• Technical Standards
• Architecture

Information Services
Fundamental data sets
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INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) Into Force
15/5/2007 General Provisions

• INSPIRE lays down general rules to establish an
  infrastructure for spatial information in Europe
  for the purposes of Community environmental
  policies and policies or activities which may
  have an impact on the environment.
• This infrastructure shall build upon
  infrastructures for spatial information
  established and operated by the Member States.
• INSPIRE does not require collection of new
  spatial data electronic format
• INSPIRE does not affect Intellectual Property
  Rights or statistical confidentiality
• http//eur-lex.europa.eu

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INSPIRE Scope

• Spatial data held by or on behalf of a public
  authority operating down to the lowest level of
  government when laws or regulations require their
  collection or dissemination
• INSPIRE covers 34 Spatial Data Themes laid down
  in 3 Annexes (required to successfully build
  environmental information systems)

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INSPIRE - Data Sharing

• Member States shall adopt measures for the
  sharing of data and services between public
  authorities for public tasks relating to the
  environment without restrictions occurring at the
  point of use.
• Public authorities may charge, license each other
  and Community institutions provided this does not
  create an obstacle to sharing.
• When spatial data or services are provided to
  Community institutions for reporting obligations
  under Community law relating to the environment
  then this will not be subject to charging.
• Member States shall provide the institutions and
  bodies of the Community with access to spatial
  data sets and services in accordance with
  harmonised conditions. Implementing Rule

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INSPIRE - Technical
INSPIRE is a Framework Directive
Implementing Rules for

1. Metadata
2. Interoperability of spatial data sets and
   services
3. Network services (discovery, view, download,
   transform, invoke) - European geo-portal
4. Data and Service sharing EU / MS
5. Coordination and measures for monitoring
   reporting

Implementing Rules to adopt according to
directive roadmap
Implementing Rules bottom-up development with
stakeholders
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From Commission proposal to Community Directive
implementation

• Preparatory phase (2004-2006)
• Co-decision procedure
• Start of preparation of Implementing Rules
• Transposition phase (2007-2009)
• Directive entered into force 15 May 2007
• INSPIRE Committee starts its activities 26 June
  2007
• Continuation of preparation of Implementing Rules
• Transposition into national legislation
• Adoption of Implementing Rules by Comitology
• Implementation phase (2009-2013)
• Implementation and monitoring of measures
• Continuation of preparation of Implementing Rules
• Adoption of Implementing Rules by Comitology

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Roadmap for IR adoption(http//inspire.jrc.it/rep
orts/transposition/INSPIRE_IR_WP2007_2009_en.pdf)
date proposed by Commission
Milestone date Article Description
2007-05-15 Entry into force of INSPIRE Directive
2007-08-15 222 Establishment of the INSPIRE Committee
2008-05-15 54 Adoption of IR for the creation and updating of metadata
2008-05-15 21(4) Adoption of IR for monitoring and reporting
2008-05-15 16 Adoption of IR for discovery and view services
2008-11-15 16 Adoption of IR for download services
2008-11-15 Adoption of IR for data exchange
2008-11-15 16(a) Adoption of IR for coordinates transformation service
2009-05-15 17(8) Adoption of IR governing the access rights of use to spatial data sets and services for Community institutions and bodies
2009-05-15 9(a) Adoption of IRs for the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial data sets and services for Annex I spatial data themes
2009-05-15 241 Provisions of Directive are brought into force in MS
2010-11-15 16 Adoption of IR for invoke "spatial data service"
2012-05-15 9(b) Adoption of the IR s for the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial data sets and services for Annex II and III spatial data themes
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Roadmap (Implementation)
date proposed by Commission
Milestone date Article Description
2010-05-15 211 Implementation of provisions for monitoring
2010-05-15 6(a) Metadata available for spatial data corresponding to Annex I and II
2010-05-15 16 Discovery and view services operational
2010-05-15 15 The EC establishes and runs a geo-portal at Community level
2010-11-15 16 Download services operational
2010-11-15 16(a) Coordinates transformation services operational
2011-05-15 73, 9(a) Newly collected and extensively restructured Annex I spatial data sets available
2012-11-15 16 Invoke "spatial data service" services operational
2013-05-15 6(b) Metadata available for spatial data corresponding to Annex III
2014-05-15 73, 9(b) Newly collected and extensively restructured Annex II and III spatial data sets available
2016-05-15 73, 9(a) Other Annex I spatial data sets available
2019-05-15 73, 9(b) Other Annex II and III spatial data sets available
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INSPIRE IR Development process
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Work Programme 2007-2009 Implementing Rule
development cycle
Directive Requirements Reference materials
Drafting of IR
INSPIRE Drafting Teams
Testing of draft IR
INSPIRE Stakeholders (SDICs, LMOs) 1. Reference
material 2. Experts 3. Projects
Manage evolution of IRs
Stakeholder/Public consultation
Commission Decision
Regulatory process
Commission inter-service consultation
INSPIRE Committee
Open registration at
http//inspire.jrc.it/sdic_call/index.cfm
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Results of the call for ExpertsOpened on 1 March
2005Experts registered per country
1-06-2007
Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDICs) 201 (45)
Legally Mandate Organisations (LMOs) 116 (30)
Proposed Experts 210 (9)
Referenced Materials 144 (50)
Identified Projects 112 (19)
22-06-2005
Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDICs) 139
Legally Mandate Organisations (LMOs) 89
Proposed Experts 193
Referenced Materials 96
Identified Projects 94
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The INSPIRE EU Geoportal

• Required by the INSPIRE directive (art.15)
• Provides access to the Member States INSPIRE
  services
• Development under EC responsibility
• Aim to provide an operational platform to satisfy
  the requirements of the directive and IR
• Geoportal dependent on the IR development
• The INSPIRE Geoportal will be operated by the EC

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Current Future Developments

• Alignment of metadata editor, search criteria and
  discovery with INSPIRE (draft) IR (2007-2009)
• View services according to INSPIRE (draft) IR
  (2007-2010)
• Multi-lingual (2007-2010)
• Provide reference info to DTs (continuous)
• feature catalogues, glossary etc
• Download services, incl. security (2009-2011)
• Registries (continuous)

Under development at http//www.inspire-geoportal
.eu/
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INSPIRE Governance Structures

• The Commission (Article 22)
• Shall be assisted by a Committee -gt Comitology
  Procedure
• Coordinating INSPIRE at Community level assisted
  by relevant organisations and, in particular, by
  the European Environment Agency
• The Member States
• Are members of the Committee (Article 22)
• Contact points to the Commission supported by a
  coordination structure, taking account of the
  distribution of powers and responsibilities
  within the Member State. (Article 19)
• Other Parties
• European standardisation bodies (Article 20)
• Representatives of Member States at national,
  regional and local level as well as other natural
  or legal persons, including users, producers,
  added value service providers or any coordinating
  body (Article 7)
• The European Parliament and Council

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Implementing INSPIRE

• The implementation of INSPIRE needs to consider
  the broader context of existing initiatives which
  could contribute
• The INSPIRE implementation should interface with
  those partnerships and initiatives where relevant
  and establish synergy
• SDIC bundle the human expertise of users,
  producers and transformers of spatial
  information, technical competence, financial
  resources and policies. Many SDIC exist today,
  generally organised by region, thematic issue or
  sector (industry).

concept of Spatial Data Interest Communities
(SDIC)
e.g. GEOSS, GMES, GALILEO, GSDI, Aarhus Clearing
House?
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Conclusions

• Innovative dual approach
• Top-down INSPIRE is a framework Directive with
  implementing rules to be adopted in the coming
  years.
• Bottom-up Highest involvement of key
  stakeholders (through the Spatial Data Interest
  Community concept) needed for development,
  implementation and sustained operation
• Openness and transparency in drafting
  implementing measures a must
• Pilots and Projects important to define/validate
  the implementing rules
• Links and interfaces with Community (GMES, eGov
  etc..) and other international initiatives
  (GEOSS, GSDI etc.) essential
• Transposition of INSPIRE, within the fixed time,
  to National Legislation in each Member State is
  crucial
• Urgent need of establishing coordinating bodies
  and structures to start INSPIRE implementation

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• Thereforethe SEIS

• SEIS is a collaborative initiative of the
  Commission, the EEA and MSs to establish an
  integrated, common, shared, multipurpose and
  sustained information system in Europe serving
  two main purposes
• improve the timely availability, sharing and
  quality of environmental data and information (or
  data impacting environmental policies) within
  Europe and provision of e-Government/e-Environment
  services to public policy makers and citizens
• offer to MSs and EU institutions an efficient
  reporting system to fulfil their reporting
  obligations related to Community environmental
  policies and legislation, avoiding duplication of
  efforts, overlapping and redundancies

• A System where the public authorities are the
  providers but also the main end-users and
  beneficiaries

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SEIS Good Information, Good Decisions

• SEIS concept
• integrated but distributed web-enabled "system of
  systems" in which current systems based on
  reporting data and information (including
  documents) centrally are increasingly replaced by
  e-Reporting systems based on access, sharing and
  interoperability.
• SEIS will be based on a distributed network
  virtual and institutional of public information
  providers (or other providers acting on behalf of
  public providers) for sharing environmental data
  and information.
• It will be built incrementally upon existing
  infrastructures, systems and e-Services in both
  MSs and EU institutions, virtually
  interconnecting them and making them to 'talk to
  each other' (inter-operable).

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SEIS Good Information, Good Decisions

• Five issues as prerequisites for
• a good and efficient SEIS, meeting its
  objectives
• deployment of an efficient, interoperable
  infrastructure for on-line accessing and sharing
  data and information and provision of information
  services
• modernising the reporting requirements and
  systems with a view to developing a coherent,
  common and shared reporting system based on
  access, sharing and interoperability
• enhance quality and comparability of the data and
  information going into the SEIS system
• availability of interoperable methodologies
  (e.g. for integrated cross-sectoral assessments
  or risk assessment and forecast) and
  e-Governement services to seamlessly implement
  them (e.g. decision support systems)
• "interoperability of policies", i.e. policy
  coherence.  

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SEIS Good Information, Good Decisions

• INSPIRE and GMES key partners in developing the
  SEIS
• The effective implementation of the INSPIRE
  directive main basis for delivering those
  aspects of the SEIS system that have to do with
  interoperability, sharing and access of spatial
  environmental data.
• SEIS beyond INSPIRE
• non-spatial data and non-numerical information
• provision of information services related to a
  coherent reporting system and e-Government/e-Envir
  onment to support decision making and inform the
  citizens.
• The GMES would contribute to SEIS with the
  provision of e-Environment services such as the
  fast track services in Land, Marine, Emergency
  Response which will allow to turn quickly and
  seamlessly data to policy relevant information
  (e.g. information integration for indicators and
  enabling integrated assessments
• How about UNECE Clearing House?

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Communication on SEIS From Concept to Reality
SEIS Good Information, Good Decisions

• Will set out overall framework/ vision for an
  integrated Shared Environmental Information
  System
• Concrete measures in the Communication
• Carefully monitor INSPIRE implementation and GMES
  further development to fit real needs
• Early revision of standardised reporting
  directive (before November 2008)
• Assessment of potential to further harmonise
  in-situ monitoring
• EEA to make SEIS centre of its strategy for
  fulfilling its mandate
• Allocation of Community funds (LIFE, structural)
• Adoption in January 2008

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Conclusions 1

• INSPIRE SEIS are tools for developing,
  implementing and monitoring environmental
  policies more timely and more cost-efficiently
• Their benefits will be tangible for all levels of
  society
• INSPIRE is a Directive developed by and for the
  benefits of the stakeholders the bottom-up
  approach

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Conclusions 2

• INSPIRE includes also a technical framework with
  implementing rules developed and adopted in the
  coming years
• INSPIRE is an essential pillar, a first step, of
  a broader vision for a European Shared
  Environmental Information System which includes
  the many applications for environmental
  management and reporting built on the INSPIRE
  foundations
• There is a lot of scope for collaboration between
  UNECE Clearing House and INSPIRE/SEIS
• More info at http//inspire.jrc.it,
  www.ec-gis.org ENV-SEIS_at_ec.europa.eu

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• SEIS data and information content
• data and information required by
• EC Environment legislation, existing or upcoming
• State of the Environment Information (including
  information provided voluntarily) EEAs data
  flows
• Data collected in the context of International
  environmental conventions in which the EU is a
  party
• Environment-related information and data
  collected/required by other EC policies .
• The ambition of SEIS however is to develop a
  flexible infrastructure that would allow other
  data collections, flows and systems beyond the
  above four categories to ' plug in' on the basis
  of mutual benefits.

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SEIS Information Services

• E.g. of Information Services for Public Policy
  Makers and Citizens that can plug in to
  SEIS/INSPIRE infrastructure
• Software applications implementing in a
  transparent and traceble way methodologies for
  integrated assessments across policy domains
  (DPSIR driving forces, pressures, state,
  impact, response), integrated assessment of
  ecosystems and of climate changes.
• Decision support systems for assessment of
  environmental impacts of big infrastructures/insta
  llations taking into account also socio-economic
  aspects).
• Dissemination and public information portals on
  DPSIR,  geo -referenced emergency alerting
  systems-,  forecasting of risks . 
• Automated report generators etc to decrease the
  administrative burden of MSs from reporting
  obligations to EC