Daniele Rizzi, European Commission – Eurostat Update on INSPIRE Daniele Rizzi, European Commission – Eurostat daniele.rizzi@ec.europa.eu GISCO Joint Working Party National Mapping Agencies – National Statistical Institutes Luxembourg, 12-13/3/2009

INSPIRE Directive INSPIRE lays down general rules to establish an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe for the purposes of Community environmental policies for policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. INSPIRE is to be based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States INSPIRE is a distributed infrastructure. INSPIRE does not require the collection of new spatial data INSPIRE does not affect existing Intellectual Property Rights Entry into force 15 May 2007 Implementation into national laws: 15 May 2009

Scope INSPIRE Directive 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 34 Spatial Data Themes laid down in 3 Annexes INSPIRE main aim: data and service sharing Technical harmonization Organizational harmonization: removal of obstacles to access Art. 17.2: The measures provided for in paragraph 1 [sharing of spatial data sets and services between public authorities] shall preclude any restrictions likely to create practical obstacles, occurring at the point of use, to the sharing of spatial data sets and services. INSPIRE only addresses data held by public authorities (or by a third party on behalf of a public authority) INSPIRE will only affect public authorities which are the custodian of relevant data that needs to be reported, collected or disseminated to a higher level of administration. Data collected for local purposes only falls not under INSPIRE. INSPIRE covers in its scope 34 themes of data, which, as you will recognise, are used for developing information systems for a wide variety of applications.

INSPIRE Spatial Data Scope Annex I Coordinate reference systems Geographical grid systems Geographical names Administrative units Addresses Cadastral parcels Transport networks Hydrography Protected sites Annex II Elevation Land cover Ortho-imagery Geology Harmonized spatial data specifications more stringent for Annex I and II than for Annex III

INSPIRE Thematic Scope Annex III Statistical units Buildings Soil Land use Human health and safety Utility and governmental services Environmental monitoring facilities Production and industrial facilities Agricultural and aquaculture facilities Population distribution – demography Area management/restriction /regulation zones & reporting units Natural risk zones Atmospheric conditions Meteorological geographical features Oceanographic geographical features Sea regions Bio-geographical regions Habitats and biotopes Species distribution Energy Resources Mineral resources

INSPIRE is a Framework Directive INSPIRE Components Metadata Interoperability of spatial data sets and services Network services (discovery, view, download, invoke) Made available through the European geo-portal Data and Service sharing (policy) Coordination and measures for Monitoring & Reporting INSPIRE is a Framework Directive Main provisions in the Directive -> transposition into National legislation Implementing Rules, issued as Commission Regulations/Decisions, “designed to amend non essential elements of the Directive by supplementing it”, to be adopted by the Commission through the comitology procedure

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 enters into force: 15 May 2007 INSPIRE Committee starts its activities: 26 June 2007 Continuation of preparation of Implementing Rules Transposition into national legislation: 15 May 2009 Adoption of Implementing Rules by Comitology Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata entered into force on 4 December 2008 Network Services View and Discovery voted by Committee on 19 December 2008 Monitoring and reporting voted by Committee on 19 December 2008 Implementation phase (2009-2013) Implementation and monitoring of measures Adoption of Implementing Rules by comitology

Excerpt from Roadmap (adoption) Milestone date Article Description 2007-05-15 Entry into force of INSPIRE Directive 2008-05-14 5§4 Submission for opinion of the INSPIRE committee of IR for the creation and updating of metadata 2008-12-19* 21(4) Submission for opinion of the INSPIRE committee of IR for monitoring and reporting 16 Submission for opinion of the INSPIRE committee of IR for discovery and view services May 2009* 17(8) Submission for opinion of the INSPIRE committee of IR governing the access rights of use to spatial data sets and services for Community institutions and bodies 2009-05-15 24§1 Provisions of Directive are brought into force in MS November 2009 9(a) Submission for opinion of the INSPIRE committee of IRs for the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial data sets and services for Annex I spatial data themes Submission for opinion of the INSPIRE committee of IR for download services 16(a) Submission for opinion of the INSPIRE committee of IR for transformation service 2010-11-15* Submission for opinion of the INSPIRE committee of IR for schema transformation and “invoke spatial data services” services 2012-05-15 9(b) Submission for opinion of the IR s for the interoperability and harmonization of spatial data sets and services for Annex II and III * = date proposed by Commission

INSPIRE Work Programme Implementing Rules development cycle The development of IRs: a bottom up process INSPIRE Work Programme Implementing Rules development cycle Text of Directive Reference materials Requirements Drafting of IR Draft IR Testing of draft IR Guidelines Manage evolution of IRs Stakeholders (SDICs, LMOs): Reference material Experts Projects Guidelines Stakeholder consultation Commission Regulation Regulatory process Commission inter-service consultation

Participatory approach 22-06-2005 01-06-2007 10-12-2008 Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDICs) 139 201 (+45%) 281 (+142%) Legally Mandate Organisations (LMOs) 89 116 (+30%) 163 (+78%) Proposed Experts 193 210 (+9%) 365 (+183%) Referenced Materials 96 144 (+50%) 351 (+271%) Identified Projects 94 112 (+19%) 121 (+29%) Proposals testing Annex I data specifications 78

Implementing Rules on Metadata Result of extensive collaborative work between Drafting Team, Commission, and stakeholders through 2005-07. Proposal for a Regulation unanimously approved by INSPIRE Regulatory Committee on 14/5/2008. European Parliament completed its scrutiny on 18/6/2008. Formal adoption by the Commission on 3rd December 2008 Published on OJ 4th December First European law requiring to document spatial data and services.

Key features Focus on Discovery and elements needed to implement the requirements of the Directive and allow interoperability through standards Requires Unique IDs for datasets and introduces link between data and services. Non-binding guidelines that allow conformance with EN ISO 19115 (data) and EN ISO 19119 (services) + interoperability with e-government through ISO 15836. Technical coherence with standards tested with MD on-line Editor freely available via EU Geoportal: http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/inspireEditor.htm

Guidelines Guidelines to implement based on ISO 19115/19119 published* Guidelines for Dublin Core in preparation * See http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/reports/ImplementingRules/metadata/MD_IR_and_ISO_20081219.pdf

Network services IR: Strategic Approach ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS WHAT MANDATORY OR CONDITIONAL INTERFACES IN LEGAL ACT IN GUIDANCE OPTIONAL PROTOCOLS HOW IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICATIONS

Key Features of the NS IR Minimum required to implement the requirements of the Directive and foster interoperability guidance proposing standards. Guidance can be updated when needed taking into account technological and standards change.

Other Network Services Draft of the Transformation and Download Implementing Rules under consultation until 24 April 2009. Remaining Implementing Rules will be submitted to the INSPIRE Committee as amendments to the Network Services Regulation.

Monitoring and Reporting Implementation and use of the INSPIRE Infrastructure Conformant Infrastructure Non Conformant Infrastructure National INSPIRE Spatial Data Infrastructure

Key Features of the MR IR Indicators monitor the development of the INSPIRE infrastructure Automation where possible (based on metadata) List: spatial data sets and services, network services Monitoring the complete “Iceberg” Availability Compliance Overview of monitoring indicators Existence of metadata, spatial data sets (coverage), Accessibility of metadata, spatial data sets, Conformity of metadata, spatial data sets, network services

Data and Service Sharing IR Provision of harmonised access to spatial data sets and services by Member States to Community institutions and bodies. Draft Implementing Rules Allowed INSPIRE use, Coordination, Emergency. In case charges are made, subject to financial regulation Guidelines Basic licence, specific licence, framework agreement.

Data and Service Sharing IR SDIC/LMO review closed on 13.02.2009: More than 490 comments from 14 countries Replies came from 24 LMO and 8 SDIC Good Practice document under development: Guidelines illustrating how the principles of the IR could be applied to data and service sharing between Member States; providing examples of good practice.

Communication channels INSPIRE Conference 2009 Third INSPIRE Conference will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 15-19 June 2009 In conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference of the GSDI Association and the National conference on Dutch SDI Conference theme: Building SDI Bridges to Address Global Challenges http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/events/conferences/inspire_2009

Communication channels Current websites INSPIRE Website http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire For public and stakeholders INSPIRE intranet site http://circa.europa.eu/Members/irc/jrc/imaco2000/home For members of Drafting Teams and Thematic Working Groups Prototype INSPIRE geo-portal http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/ Includes an INSPIRE and ISO compliant on-line metadata editor INSPIRE registry https://inspire-registry.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ INSPIRE Glossary and Feature Concept Dictionary registers in support of data specifications development