1. EEA/EIONET – Support to the Fitness Check Actions and Action Plan
Workshop on Streamlining Environmental Reporting
Tallinn, 7-8 November 2017
EEA/EIONET – Support to the Fitness Check Actions and Action Plan
Chris Steenmans – Head of Programme EEA
EEA/EIONET – Support to the Fitness Check Actions and Action Plan
Chris Steenmans – Head of Programme EEA

2. Streamlining environmental reporting...
21st century

3. 181 reporting obligations from 58 pieces of legislation
Reportnet daily deliveries
Frequency of reporting
Primary type of information
Source: Reportnet Source: SWD(2017)230 final

4. Increasing number of data flows managed by EEA
3500+ Data deliveries uploaded yearly by
700+ individual data reporters
89 regular data flows handled via EEA
18 Eionet core data flows
60+ non-core data flows
40-50 data flows per year (due to different reporting cycles)
Datasets
Source: Reportnet 2016
*Source: Reportnet 9/2017

5. Eionet regular performance monitoring of reporting
Annual cycle of monitoring national reporting
Daily monitoring of national reporting
Source: Reportnet, 2017

6. Emerging opportunities and challenges
Growth of Open Data activities
eGovernment and economy as a driver i.e. Single Digital Market
Web and geo-location services
New ways of monitoring emerging issues e.g. EO, citizen science and crowdsourcing
Big data
QA/QC based on machine learning and AI
Data protection and information security
=> Review of environmental reporting and monitoring

7. Reportnet Action 3 - Modernising e-reporting
Source

8. Action 3 - User requirements upgrade Reportnet
Support active dissemination at European and national level
Ease QA/QC by using custom made rules and checks
Handle all data types (numeric, geospatial and textual)
Reduce cost per individual data flow
Facilitate communication between EC and Member States
Promote cooperation among Member States
Serve reporting and monitoring of EU environment policy and beyond

9. Action 3 – Reportnet 2.0 project
Specific objectives:
Ability to handle increased volume and complexity of data flows
Higher security
Higher maintainability
Improved operational management of Reportnet
e-reporting from national air quality monitoring stations
Hourly + yearly + aggregations + metadata
~ measures per day per pollutant
Yearly: stations, hourly values, ~70 million measures per pollutant
Based on integrated monitoring from space and in situ
Source:

10. Action 3 - Scoping Reportnet 3.0
Provides a modernised generic e-Reporting infrastructure for next decade
Supports the key functions of the whole data flow management lifecycle
Built upon interoperable generic modules and standards
Incorporates Reportnet 2.0 investments
Reduced cost per individual data flow
Supports active dissemination based on data harvesting
Handles all data types (numeric, geospatial and textual)
Promotes cooperation among EEA member countries

11. Action 3 – Implementation Reportnet 2.0/3.0
2017
2020
Reportnet core
Scalability
Complexity
Security
Maintainability
Reportnet 2.0
Inspire integration
Data harvesting tools
Copernicus services
Citizen science
2017
2019
Reportnet 3.0
ROD, CDR, DD, CR, …

12. Online information services
Action Improving information systems
EC study : Promotion of best practices for national environmental information systems and tools for data harvesting
Online information services
Current data reporting
Countries
Organisations A C B D E
Source:SEIS 2006

13. Action 6 - Promote full implementation of INSPIRE

14. Action 6 - Number of requests on EEA map servers
Source: EEA Discover Map Services

15. Action 7 - Use of Copernicus data and services

16. Action 8 - Promote citizens science data
Source: EEA Marine Liiter 2017

17. Action 8 - Data quality challenges
Suitability needs to be assessed against accuracy, sustainability and methological soundness
Representativity of the data
Continuity of data
Minimizing reputational risks
Source: IMF, 2017

18. Action 9 - Cooperate with other domains
Improving sharing and use of data gathered in other areas for the benefit of the environment cfr. EC new European Interoperability Framework
Source: New European Interoperability Framework 2017

19. Action 10 - Wider international streamlining
YEAR
EEA/Eionet related activities
EU related activities
Pan-European
Global
2006
Aarhus Regulation adopted
 GEOSS
2007
Belgrade pan-European assessment
INSPIRE Directive
Rec. on env. indicators adopted
2008
SEIS Communication
2009
EEA MAWP ENP/SEIS project
2010
SEIS state-of-play report
SENSE I project; SOER2010
Europe2020 Strategy
2011
AoA report; FLIS established
Astana Declaration
2012
SENSE II
7th EAP
Rio+20 outcome
2013
EEA data policy adopted
SENSE III
Copernicus Regulation
SEIS implementation outlook
Launch UNEP Live
2014
EEA MAWP /20
In-SEIS project
Friends of SEIS group
2015
SEIS side event Aarhus; SOER2015
2016
SEIS side event Batumi
ENI/SEIS project II
EU-ENP min declaration
Batumi Declaration
Report SEIS/regular reporting
Geo6 pan-European report
2017
M&R REFIT
2018
SEIS impl. progress report
2019
SOER2020
2020

20. Summary – EEA/Eionet support to the action plan
Potential EEA/Eionet involvement
1 Amend legislation -
2 Change reporting obligations
Support through DG ENV rolling work programme
3 Modernise e-Reporting
Reportnet 2.0 / 3.0 project
4 Develop and test tools for harvesting
Share of National and European experiences
5 Guidance for information systems
Support steering DG ENV project
6 Promote full implementation INSPIRE
Through INSPIRE Monitoring and Implementation Group
7 Use of Copernicus data and services
Increasing use in EEA/Eionet products and services
8 Promote citizen science data
Support on guidelines and pilot
9 Cooperate with other domains
Link to EKC data centres and information systems
10 Wider international streamlining
Trilateral UNECE, UNEP, EEA

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Source word cloud: EEA data management framework, 2017