Shared Environmental Information System for Europe for Europe SEIS 25 October 2007, Dublin

What is SEIS? SEIS is a collaborative initiative of European and National bodies to establish an integrated and sustained information system for sharing environmental data.  A system where the public authorities are the providers but also the main end-users and beneficiaries  A contribution to the Commission’s commitment to better regulation and simplification (Go4, 2007)

Towards sharing environmental information... Directive INSPIRE, 2007 Time Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information, 2003 Directiveon Reuse of PublicSector Information, th Community Environment Action Programme, 2002 Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, 1998 DeclarationoftheUN StockholmConference ontheHumanEnvironment,1972 Standardized Environmental Reporting Directive, 1991 SEIS ? Establishment EEA and Eionet Council Regulation, 1990 GMES Action Plan, 2004

3 Drivers Content Streamlining Access Directiveon Reuse of PublicSector Information, 2003 Standardized Environmental Reporting Directive, 1991 SEIS 6th Community Environment Action Programme, Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Action Plan Establishment EEA and Eionet Council Regulation, 1990 Directive INSPIRE, 2007 Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information, 2003 Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, 1998

Priorities 6th EAP Climate change Nature and biodiversity Environment and health Natural resources and waste 7 Thematic Strategies

SEIS Principles information should be managed as close as possible to its source information is provided once and shared with others for many purposes data and information should be readily accessible information should be made available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, given possible confidentiality constraints, and at national level in the national language(s)

Data and information services ICT infrastructure, Inspire,... SEIS components emvironmental data centres Data and Information Air Land use Chemicals Climate Change Biodiversity SoilForests WasteWater Natrual resources...

Different focus INSPIREGMESSEIS Content Infra structure Infra structure Infra structure Services Obligation Obligation? Business Business?

Building a shared information system for Europe From Centralised reporting Manual uploads Insufficient take-up High barriers to re-use To Full automated sharing Fast updates Easy access to data Expanded use Open protocols

EEA One European Website From data sharing… InvestmentReturn Germany France UK

EEA From data sharing… Germany France UK One European Website web service

Germany Potential 408,000 web pages Potential 800,000 web pages Potential 362,000 web pages EEA... to sharing & accessing information systems & services InvestmentReturn France UK web service One European Website

What are the benefits of SEIS ? at EU level:  Increased European capacity  Streamlining reporting at Member State level:  “Report once, use many”  Less duplication of efforts At Global level:  Commitments international conventions  Credibility of EU

Ozone-web: Near-real time ozone data

Water Information System for Europe

SEIS = linking existing initiatives INSPIRE SEIS

EC DG Env JRC Eurostat Discocery service View service Download service Transform. service Public authorities holding GI -metadata -INSPIRE- data Users: Public authorities, citizens, EU-bodies, … Measures for sharing Portals National Coordination Structure National Contact Point follow-up co-operation reporting Toimialojen paikkatiedot Standards (IR) Harmonised interface - 7/24 management - r & d e-commerce services Licencing and user management ? Structure of the INSPIRE based NSDI (Source: Finnish NFP Inspire)

It will set out: the political framework for SEIS an integrated and common implementation strategy and its links with INSPIRE, GMES/GEOSS and the streamlining and updating of reporting and monitoring provisions of a) thematic legislation both existing and new proposals and b) the Reporting directive, Aarhus Convention, etc; suggest policy options to go from 'Concept to Reality' European Commission Communication on SEIS - end 2007

5. Land-water-biodiversity integrated assessment Integrated assessment inputs for the EEA SOER2010 report 6. Ozone web extension Demonstrate the possibilities to use the system for monthly summer ozone exceedance reporting, Consolidate the near real-time ozone data to full coverage and Extend the system to particulate matter 7. Indicators and assessments GHG emissions To get access to knowledge from national assessments, to improve SOER2010 reporting. EEA SEIS Implementation plan 2008 (7 projects on Content) October 2007 NFP meeting

11. Air quality data service Integrate the future CAFÉ Directive data flows into the EEA air data service. 12. Effectiveness of waste policies Create a SEIS compliant reporting system for information that is of another kind. 13. SEIS country visits 15. EEA SEIS Signals A first report in November 2008 EEA SEIS Implementation plan 2008 (7 projects on Content) (II)

1. Country performance improvements Priority DF Target for % reporting performance. 2. Reportnet enhancements Further develop Reportnet 3. IMS+ and CSI Create and agree on a common European information base for country benchmarking EEA SEIS Implementation plan 2008 (3 projects on Streamlining)

4. SERIS upgrade Improve access to national information on SoE 8. Land cover data service Web service established by end GHG data service GHG emission data for the actual year WISE data service Provide information services within WISE, enriching the current bathing water information. 14. SEIS Data policy Dealing with accessing and sharing of data and information EEA SEIS Implementation plan 2008 (5 projects on Access)