1. biodiversity.europa.eu
BISE
EEA and ETC/BD
Rania Spyropoulou

2. THE BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR EUROPE
Reporting – Data and indicators -Assessments
Environmental Data centres and
BISE

3. Phases of BISE Phase 0 (December 2009 – June 2011)
Phase 0 (December 2009 – June 2011)
Strand 1) Improvement of the current version 0 - 'quick fixes';
Strand 2) Update of the concept paper and preparation of the respective Implementation Plan.
Phase 1 (June 2011 – December 2012): input to the Integrated Format for Monitoring, assessment and reporting for the EU biodiversity strategy
Phase 2 (2013 and beyond)

4. The overriding objective:
to build a constant and updated knowledge base for biodiversity in Europe

5. BISE Policy: EU Biodiversity Action Plan

6. BISE Topics: SEBI indicators

7. BISE topics: protected areas

8. BISE Topics: Ecosystems

9. BISE data

12. BISE contribution to the EU knowledge base Requirements
Biodiversity policy
CBD strategic plan , IPBS, EU biodiversity strategy
2. Bottom up requirements
Countries, citizens
3. Transparency in decision making,
Enabling biodiversity reporting
Implementation
Governance structure and implementation plans

13. Several ways to do this: A clearing house for EU institutions
 Objective 1 :BISE should
enable the collection and dissemination of information and data from multiple sources [EU bodies, multilateral agreements, Member States, NGOs, citizen observations]
Several ways to do this:
A clearing house for EU institutions
A reporting tool for EU member States
A clearing house function amongst EU member states
A reporting tool for EU citizens

14. Objective 2 :BISE should
ensure complementarity and links to information and data relevant to the global biodiversity targets at the Pan-European level
Several challenges here:
How to integrate the EEA countries/ the EEA collaborating countries and the Pan –European region? portal?
Should the current BISE be complemented by a Pan European entry point?
Should this entry point be linked to the European Biodiversity CHM network?

15. Objective 3 : BISE should
enhance information structuring, documentation, archiving, streamlining and sharing across relevant EU policies and among different institutional levels
A governance structure amongst EU institutions is needed
Linked to objective 1

16. Objective 4: BISE should
provide information and data relevant to biodiversity assessments at different geographical levels for stakeholders at the global, EU, national, subnational, local levels
Several issues here
- definition of products needed at different levels
- identification of existing and potential data sources
- discussion on IT issues and investment needed

17. BISE is a node of the Shared Environmental Information System (2008 EC Communication on SEIS)
Feeding into BISE
+ GMES
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
The ten Environmental Data Centres  
Air [EEA]
Land use [ EEA]
Biodiversity [ EEA]
Water [ EEA]
- Climate change [EEA]
- Soil [JRC]
- Forestry [JRC]
- Waste [EUROSTAT]
- Integrated product policy [EUROSTAT]
- Natural resources [EUROSTAT]
implementation of the INSPIRE
Directive

18. Objective 5: BISE should
improve the communication on biodiversity to and from a wider audience
Several issues to be considered here:
-multilinguality
-thematic arrangements

19. The European CHM network
The network comprises of the CBD –CHM focal points of countries of the Pan European region. It is meeting annually under the coordination of EEA, with the participation of the CBD Secretariat, and decides on joint activities related to the global CHM and the CBD strategic plan. The EC-CHM portal is providing a show case for the EC-CHM Portal toolkit, which is used by a number of European and African countries for their national CHMs.
NEXT meeting is November focusing on BISE and the CHM

20. The EEA Knowledge frame – Biodiversity data centre and BISE
Biodiversity InformationSystem for
Europe
Analysis and synthesis
Assimilation into user’s framework
MONITORING
Measure & record
DATA
Integrate & manage
INFORMATION
Visualise & describe
ASSESSMENT
Analyse & understand
REPORTING
Explain & communicate
Air
DC….
Data maintenance and data integration
Biodiversity
data center
Indicators and statistics
Data QC and acceptance
Water DC
Land Use DC