INSPIRE Directive context Marine Strategy Framework Directive Hugo.De-Groof@ec.europa.eu Directorate-General Environment – Chief Scientist, Research and Innovation Unit European Commission INSPIRE TEAM Eurostat – DG Environment – Joint Research Centre

Why INSPIRE - 2001? Needs Situation in Europe Better information needed to support policies Improvement of existing information flows Differentiation across regions to be considered Revision of approach to reporting and monitoring, moving to concept of sharing of information Situation in Europe Data policy restrictions pricing, copyright, access rights, licensing policy Lack of co-ordination across boarders and between levels of government Lack of standards incompatible information and information systems Existing data not re-usable fragmentation of information, redundancy, inability to integrate EU has islands of data of different standards and quality...

INSPIRE principles Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively Combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources and share it between many users and applications (the concept of interoperability) Spatial data should be collected at one level of government and shared between all levels Spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use It should be easy to discover which spatial data is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose and to know which conditions apply for its use

Bringing data together through a Spatial Data Infrastructure Data easily discoverable and accessible to users Easier development of new applications and services Like a road infrastructure makes it possible to connect different sites, a spatial data infrastructure makes it possible to connect data located at different sources Components Institutional framework Data Services Fundamental data sets Technical standards

INSPIRE Directive 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. INSPIRE to be based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States. INSPIRE does not require collection of new spatial data

INSPIRE Fundamental Data Sets 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

INSPIRE Data Scope (1) 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

INSPIRE Data Scope (2) 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 - Data Sharing in force since 15 May 2009 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.

INSPIRE is a Framework Directive INSPIRE - Technical INSPIRE is a Framework Directive “Implementing Rules” for: Metadata Interoperability of spatial data sets and services Network services (discovery, view, download, transform, invoke) - European geo-portal Data and Service sharing EU / MS Coordination and measures for monitoring & reporting “Implementing Rules” to adopt according to directive “roadmap” “Implementing Rules” bottom-up development with stakeholders

INSPIRE - Architecture DT NS INSPIRE - Architecture Application and Geoportals Service Bus GeoRM layers Service Layer Registry Service Discovery Service View Service Download Service Transf. Service InvokeSD Service DT MD DT DS Data Sources Registers Service Metadata Data Set Metadata Spatial Data Set TWG TWG TWG Thematic DS Framework for harmonized DS

Directive on the Assessment and Management of Floods A preliminary flood risk assessment Including art.4 a-f (e) Likelihood of future floods and projected impact of climate change and land use trends Prepare flood risk maps by 2013 – with 6 yearly updates Flood risk management plans by 2015

Source: GMES BICEPS Report Floods Early Warning – Forecast - Impact Assessment Data & Information Requirements Source: GMES BICEPS Report

Floods Early Warning – Forecast - Impact Assessment Data & Information Requirements III – 14 Meteorological geographical features III – 13 Atmospheric conditions III – 3 Soils III – 4 Land-use II – 2 Landcover I-8 Hydrography I- 2 Elevation III – 7 Environmental Monitoring Facilities Environmental Monitoring Facilities III - 12 Natural Risk Zones III – 18 Habitats and biotopes III – 19 Species distribution III-10 Population distribution — demography III- 6 - Utility and governmental services Etc. Source: GMES BICEPS Report

Marine Strategy Framework directive MSFD Art.4 Marine regions or subregions Art.8 Assessment - Environmental status - Physical, chemical features - Habitat types - Biological features - Hydro-morphology - Pressures and impacts analysis Economic and social analysis INSPIRE Annex III.16 Sea Regions Several Annex I/II/III themes related Requires Consistent methodologies > Take account of transboundary impacts and features

Marine Strategy Framework Directive Data and Information Needs ? Driving forces Pressures State State Impact Source: GMES BICEPS Report

TWG-NZ Natural Risk Zones 17

Roadmap Implementing Rules

Annex II/III Grouping of Themes Elevation Land cover Ortho-imagery Geology 21. Mineral resources (Annex III) Annex III Statistical units 10. Population distribution – demography Buildings Soil Land use Human health and safety Utility and governmental services Environmental monitoring facilities Production and industrial facilities Agricultural and aquaculture facilities 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

Thematic Working Groups: example TWG Oceanographic Geographical Features + Sea Regions: Expert members from and proposed by: -CNR Ibimet (National Research Council - Institute of BioMeteorology); LaMMA- Regione Toscana- CNR IBIMET - Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO); IDEE LMO - HR Wallingford; MyOcean project SDIC - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES ; EEA/ EIONET relation to WISE-Marine - Science and Technology Facilities Council; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; - Agency for Maritime and Coastal Services - Coastal Division - Flemish Hydrography (Flemish government) LMO; GIS-Flanders LMO -Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) LMO; IDEE Working Group Commiss. on Geomatics TWG Species Distribution: Flanders Marine Institute EMODnet Biology SDIC 21

Important to Participate at Consultation and testing Roadmap- summary Call for participation to the testing of DS v2.0 Open until 20 June 2011 - Data specification v1.9 30 April 2011 - Review DSv1.9 (TWGs, DSDT, CT) 21 May 2011 (3 weeks) - Cross-TWGs+DSDT meeting 23-25 May 2011 - Data specification v2.0 15 June 2011 Consultation stakeholders 20 June- 21 October 2011 Testing 20 June- 21 October Comment resolution workshop 05-07 December2011 Data Specification v3.0 20 April 2012 ISC + IC 02-27 July 2012 (draft date) IC meeting 15 October 2012 (draft date) Important to Participate at Consultation and testing 22

INSPIRE recommendations to DIKE

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