CDDA & INSPIRE work of EEA - preliminary lessons learnt Mette Lund Biodiversity group, EEA Expert group on reporting under the Nature Directives, 17 October 2017

The inventory of Nationally designated areas (CDDA) CDDA is an annual Eionet core data flow Geographical coverage: 39 countries The inventory is collected since 1995 The CDDA is the official source of protected area information from European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA)

CDDA reporting from 2018 onwards Motivation for a new CDDA data model and reporting approach for 2018 reporting Protected sites are among the INSPIRE Annex I themes The existing CDDA data model has redundant information and outdated reporting approaches Motivation for using the ”Linked approach” for environmental reporting To avoid double reporting To avoid maintenance of overlapping but different thematic data models Generic and re-usable approach in different data flows Current reporting obligations Type 1 Geospatial reference data (re-using INSPIRE) Type 2 Environmental data Type 3 Textual or contextual data and information MS shall provide data in the scope of INSPIRE (harmonized, interoperable, via network services) by 2020 latest. CDDA related data via INSPIRE Protected Sites already in Nov. 2017!

Current reporting approach in CDDA Reportnet CDR Geometry (Shapefiles) Tabular data (XML/MS Access files) Upload as package common identifier CDDA 2018 approach re-using INSPIRE Protected Sites INSPIRE model Protected Sites – Type 1 (GML file) Geometry & selected elements Tabular data – Type 2 (XML/XLS files) Elements ruled by Type 2 data Reportnet CDR CDDA Designated Area Various IDs Designated area type Official area (ha) IUCN category Major ecosystem type Marine percentage Metadata fields Upload as package common identifier Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel CDDA match Geometry of site Site name Designation date

Current reporting approach in CDDA Reportnet CDR Geometry (Shapefiles) Tabular data (XML/MS Access files) Upload as package common identifier CDDA 2018 approach re-using INSPIRE Protected Sites INSPIRE model Protected Sites – Type 1 (GML file) Geometry and core elements Tabular data – Type 2 (XML/XLS files) Elements NOT included in the INSPIRE data models Reportnet CDR Upload as package common identifier CDDA Designated Area Various IDs Designated area type Official area (ha) Major ecosystem type Marine percentage Metadata fields Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel CDDA match Geometry of site Site name Designation date Designation type IUCN category

Linked Approach and CDDA 2018 Type 1 Type 2 Dataset level Protected Site 1 Designation A Object level Protected Site 2 Designation B Designation C

Understanding the national setting Who is responsible for INSPIRE PS in your country? The organization reporting CDDA Another agency Nobody (e.g. not EU/EFTA) CDDA already provided under INSPIRE? No, but going to happen by Nov. 2017 Only ”as-is”, not harmonized yet Harmonized according to the PS specifications GML file needs to be created for CDDA or Use transformation tools provided by the EEA (based on xls and shp files) Use ETL tools (e.g. HALE or FME) for mapping & transformation Type 2 input data Type 1 input data CDDA Type 1 reporting file CDDA Type 2 reporting file Type 1 – INSPIRE Protected Sites Type 2 – CDDA reporting data Reportnet local copy upload Tools

Where are we now? Consultation closed 15 September Finalising the reporting guidelines - October Adapting Reportnet – CDR and QA/QC December 2017 – Call for 2018 data collection March 2018 – Reporting deadline for CDDA reporting

Lessons learnt so far No change at all to the INSPIRE Protected Sites file re-used by CDDA reporting Important to guide the CDDA reporters to understand the national INSPIRE organisation Issues with the GML format Exchange vs storage format Complex vs flat models

Thank you Support from Data governance group, EEA ETC/BD

Two ways of re-using INSPIRE models (general application) Alternative A via (INSPIRE compliant) file INSPIRE model Geometry and core elements GML file Tabular data (without elements included in the INSPIRE data models) common identifier Upload as package Reportnet CDR INSPIRE model Geometry and core elements Web feature service link Tabular data (without elements included in the INSPIRE data models) common identifier Alternative B via INSPIRE download service (WFS) Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel Step 1 - Upload Step 2 – Harvest gml file from INSPIRE web service

Future web feature service harvesting for reporting? EEA currently not ready to accept data from web services for obligatory reporting EEA Reportnet undergoes major update project ( Reportnet 2.0, 2017-2019) Reporting via web-services is legally/procedurally challenging Within CDDA ‘18 we will ask countries to provide us with WFS nodes (in parallel) if available for testing During 2018 EEA will analyse the web-service reporting together with EIONET Technical and legal challenges needs to be addressed 2020 as target to be ready for web service based reporting for agreed data flows

Communalities in protected sites reporting data Natura 2000 data flow CDDA data flow geometry site name designation date designation type