1. European Commission EUROSTAT E4
INSPIRE Directive
What’s up?
EC INSPIRE TEAM Joint Research Centre - Directorate-General Environment – EUROSTAT
European Commission EUROSTAT E4
Now that the INSPIRE entered recently into force, Member States, their regions and the Commission are faced with important challenges related to its implementation.
Implementing INSPIRE will require commitment and efforts from many public authorities and organisations which are dealing with data related to the environment.
Faced with these challenges it may be worthwhile to look again at why we actually need an INSPIRE directive and how it fits in with recent environmental policy developments at Community level

2. Overview INSPIRE basics INSPIRE state of the art
INSPIRE and STATISTICS
Implementing INSPIRE
Contact information

3. Where can I find… …comparable geographic information for distinct administrative areas?
Challenge: identify, access and use geographic information
fragmentation
gaps in availability, duplication
data policy restrictions / pricing policies
lack of data harmonisation: standards, quality
lack of infrastructure
better coordination needed

4. Reference systems not harmonized
ETRS89
Reference system 2 :
Clarke 80

5. Data inconsistency across borders
Different road networks density or
different classifications?!

6. Data inconsistency across borders
Administrative boundaries are not matching

7. Sharing of spatial data sets and services needs to be improved!

8. INSPIRE Principles maintain data at the most effective level;
share between all levels;
combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources;
use conditions  not restrict extensive use;
discover, evaluate, use data.

9. INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation
INSPIRE:
INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation
in Europe
INSPIRE geo-portal
A network where you can search, view, download data sets, access to other services (transformation, invoke)
Technical harmonisation and organisational aspects

10. EU Geoportal = Central Access Point
Provides access to the Member States INSPIRE services
Operated by the EC
Operational version:
30-Nov-2010

11. INSPIRE is a Framework Directive
INSPIRE Directive
sets the frame
INSPIRE geo-portal
coordination
requests implementing rules
Implementing rules: amend non essential elements,
provide (technical) details
Metadata
Data structure
Network
services
Monitoring
and
reporting
Data and
service sharing
with EU

12. When does INSPIRE Directive apply?
Data and services
Spatial data held by or on behalf of a public authority
Data sets and services specified by the Directive (Annex I, II, III)
Use (for public authorities)
Policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

13. Implementing Rules development cycle:  a participatory approach
Guidelines
Draft IR
Text of Directive
Reference materials
Requirements
Commission
Regulation
Drafting of IR
Testing of draft IR
Stakeholder
consultation
inter-service
Regulatory process
Manage
evolution of IRs
Stakeholders
(SDICs, LMOs):
Reference material
Experts
Projects

14. SDIC/LMO Office for National Statistics – UK Czech Statistical Office
Spatial Data Infrastructure for Statistics: NSI’s of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark
Statistics Denmark
Statistics Austria
KOSIS-Verbund (Kommunales Statistisches Informationssystem) Germany
Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic …

15. Data specifications and statistics
Examples of themes of interest to statistics:
Statistical units (Annex III)
Human health and safety (Annex III)
Population distribution – demography (An. III)

16. Statistical units
Units for dissemination or use of statistical information:  areas, lines, points
Sub-grouping of administrative units
official administrative units
government management zones
blocks, census and statistical districts
civil security units
environmental reporting and management units
postal codes/ regions
 No thematic information

17. Human health and safety
Geographical distribution of dominance of pathologies, information indicating the effect on health or well-being of humans linked directly or indirectly to the quality of the environment.
Description
distribution of diseases, health & safety qualities
causes and elements affecting health
wellbeing of humans
safety issues
health care services

18. Population distribution – demography
Geographical distribution of people, including population characteristics and activity levels, aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.
Broad sub-themes:
population characteristics
Tot. population, age, gender…
population/ human activity levels
Resource exploitation, agricultural production

19. INSPIRE Implementing rules
Metadata for discovery
Commission Regulation No 2008/1205/EC of 3 December 2008
Data specifications (Annexes I – III)
Annex I: for vote to Committee in December 2009
Annex II and III: for vote to Committee in May 2012
Network services
Discovery service, View service
Voted by INSPIRE Committee, December 2008
Download service, Transformation service: for vote to Committee in December 2009
Invoke service: for vote to Committee in June 2012
Data and service sharing
Provision of data from Member States to the Community institutions and bodies
Voted by INSPIRE Committee, June 2009
Monitoring and reporting
Commission Decision No 2009/443/EC of 5 June 2009

20. INSPIRE: getting there
INSPIRE Directive
Implementing rules
Metadata
Data structure
Network
services
Monitoring
and
reporting
Data and
service sharing
with EU

21. Implementation of INSPIRE
15-May-2010: Monitoring and reporting (first delivery)
30-Nov-2010: Geo-portal at Community level
03-Dec-2010: Metadata: Annex I and II
October 2011(2): Discovery and view services
June  2012(1): Transformation services
June (1): Download services
June  (2): Spatial data sets: Annex I, new/restructured
03-Dec-2013: Metadata: Annex III
January 2015(2): Spatial data sets: Annex II and III, new/restr.
June  (2): Spatial data sets: Annex I - all
30-May-2019: Spatial data sets: Annex II and III – all
1   Date proposed by the commission
2   Date depending on entry into force of measure

22. Contact us, get more information!
INSPIRE Website
 For general public and stakeholders
Prototype INSPIRE geo-portal
Includes INSPIRE and ISO compliant on-line metadata editor
… AND CONTRIBUTE!
Your knowledge is valuable!

23. http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire ESTAT-INSPIRE@ec.europa.eu