CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Copyright ©2013 EuroGeographics UN-GGIM Europe 12 June 2013 Dave Lovell, Secretary General and Executive Director

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Contents Non Governmental Organisation Status; UN-GGIM status of geodetic reference systems and services; Preparatory Committee on the establishment UN- GGIM Europe Road-map for establishing UN-GGIM Europe

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Non Governmental Organisation Status May Application received by the NGO Branch of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Nov 2012 – EuroGeographics cannot be considered as an NGO eligible to apply for consultative status ‘because members can interfere with the free expression of views of the organization’; Dec 2012 – Executive Director contests November decision; March 2013 – UN notes that EuroGeographics is: established by governmental entities and thus does not meet the requirements as a non-governmental organization. Au contraire, your organization has a very clear intergovernmental character!

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE UN-GGIM status of geodetic reference systems and services An example of the Association representing members in International Developments Which Members benefit? 1945 (original members) 1946– – –present non-member observer states All UN Member States

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Missing: Croatia Ireland Kosovo Russia The Netherlands Survey of Geodetic Frameworks in Europe UN-GGIM More than 100 UN Member States respond!

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE The Second High Level Forum on Global Geospatial Information Management, Doha Feb The Forum addressed the need for a sound and sustainable global geodetic reference frame and noted the significant contributions made by the International Association for Geodesy (IAG) over the past 150 years… 12. The Forum noted that the increasing need for the global geodetic system to track changes such as terrestrial adjustments and sea level rise would require significant refinement to the current systems and need for further precision. Expansion in the current geodetic observing infrastructure …… 13. The Forum agreed that while the science of establishing a sound geodetic reference frame is available, it was essential to have the governments accept the responsibility of establishing and maintaining a sound national geodetic reference frame which could serve as the foundation for a global system. ……

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Survey of Geodetic Frameworks UN-GGIM ‘We made great progress in moving the global geodetic frame agenda forward and we are looking at a UN-GA resolution in 2014’ Paul Cheung The Second High Level Forum on Global Geospatial Information Management, Doha Feb 2013 – Presentations, Discussions and reports The Third High Level Forum on Global Geospatial Information Management, Cambridge July 2013 Delivers a resolution to 2014

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Survey of Geospatial Information Management Have answered

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Preparatory Committee on the establishment UN-GGIM Europe 1.Inaugural - four meetings between November 2012 and 2013 involving the UN, several EU Institutions and NMCAs represented by EuroGeographics; 2.Transitional - requiring the direct involvement of the NMCAs in continental Europe, this partly overlaps with the inaugural phase and runs from the July 2013 meeting of the UN-GGIM Committee of Experts until its meeting in 2014; 3.Operational - following the official establishment of the UN- GIMM Europe Committee, NMCAs assume full executive power and organisational ownership of UN-GGIM Europe. The EU institutions will then play an observing but nonetheless strong and important advisory role.

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of UN-GGIM Europe; UN-GGIM Ministerial Segment, Cambridge 24 July; Informal meeting of UN Member States NMCAs in Europe, Cambridge 25 July; Formal meeting of UN Member States NMCAs in Europe, Warsaw 2 October; 2014 UN-GGIM Forum 4 – formally establishes UN-GGIM Europe? Road-map establishing UN-GGIM Europe

CONNECTING YOU TO THE AUTHORITATIVE GEO-INFORMATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUROPE Conclusions UN-GGIM is relevant and important for all members; EuroGeographics has ‘prepared the ground’; Members must attend or ask the Association to represent them at the informal meeting in Cambridge; Members must volunteer to be a member of the task force to establish UN-GGIM Europe.

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