1. INSPIRE Directive context Marine Strategy Framework Directive
Directorate-General Environment – Chief Scientist, Research and Innovation Unit
European Commission INSPIRE TEAM
Eurostat – DG Environment – Joint Research Centre

2. Why INSPIRE - 2001? Needs Situation in Europe
Better information needed to support policies
Improvement of existing information flows
Differentiation across regions to be considered
Revision of approach to reporting and monitoring, moving to concept of sharing of information
Situation in Europe
Data policy restrictions
pricing, copyright, access rights, licensing policy
Lack of co-ordination
across boarders and between levels of government
Lack of standards
incompatible information and information systems
Existing data not re-usable
fragmentation of information, redundancy, inability to integrate
EU has islands of data of different standards and quality...

3. INSPIRE principles
Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively
Combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources and share it between many users and applications (the concept of interoperability)
Spatial data should be collected at one level of government and shared between all levels
Spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use
It should be easy to discover which spatial data is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose and to know which conditions apply for its use

4. Bringing data together through a Spatial Data Infrastructure
Data easily discoverable and accessible to users
Easier development of new applications and services
Like a road infrastructure makes it possible to connect different sites, a spatial data infrastructure makes it possible to connect data located at different sources
Components
Institutional
framework
Data
Services
Fundamental
data sets
Technical
standards

5. INSPIRE Directive
General Provisions
INSPIRE lays down general rules to establish an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe for the purposes of Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
INSPIRE to be based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States.
INSPIRE does not require collection of new spatial data

6. INSPIRE Fundamental Data Sets
Spatial data held by or on behalf of a public authority operating down to the lowest level of government when laws or regulations require their collection or dissemination
INSPIRE covers 34 Spatial Data Themes laid down in 3 Annexes

7. INSPIRE Data Scope (1) Annex I Coordinate reference systems
Geographical grid systems
Geographical names
Administrative units
Addresses
Cadastral parcels
Transport networks
Hydrography
Protected sites
Annex II
Elevation
Land cover
Ortho-imagery
Geology

8. INSPIRE Data Scope (2)
Annex III
Statistical units
Buildings
Soil
Land use
Human health and safety
Utility and governmental services
Environmental monitoring facilities
Production and industrial facilities
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
Population distribution – demography
Area management/restriction /regulation zones & reporting units
Natural risk zones
Atmospheric conditions
Meteorological geographical features
Oceanographic geographical features
Sea regions
Bio-geographical regions
Habitats and biotopes
Species distribution
Energy Resources
Mineral resources

9. INSPIRE - Data Sharing in force since 15 May 2009
Member States shall adopt measures for the sharing of data and services between public authorities for public tasks relating to the environment without restrictions occurring at the point of use.
Public authorities may charge, license each other and Community institutions provided this does not create an obstacle to sharing.

10. INSPIRE is a Framework Directive
INSPIRE - Technical
INSPIRE is a Framework Directive
“Implementing Rules” for:
Metadata
Interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Network services (discovery, view, download, transform, invoke) - European geo-portal
Data and Service sharing EU / MS
Coordination and measures for monitoring & reporting
“Implementing Rules” to adopt according to directive “roadmap”
“Implementing Rules” bottom-up development with stakeholders

11. INSPIRE - Architecture
DT NS
INSPIRE - Architecture
Application and Geoportals
Service Bus
GeoRM layers
Service
Layer
Registry Service
Discovery Service
View Service
Download Service
Transf.
Service
InvokeSD Service
DT MD
DT DS
Data
Sources
Registers
Service
Metadata
Data Set
Metadata
Spatial Data Set
TWG
TWG
TWG
Thematic DS
Framework for harmonized DS

12. Directive on the Assessment and Management of Floods
A preliminary flood risk assessment
Including art.4 a-f
(e) Likelihood of future floods and projected impact of climate change and land use trends
Prepare flood risk maps by 2013 – with 6 yearly updates
Flood risk management plans by 2015

13. Source: GMES BICEPS Report
Floods Early Warning – Forecast - Impact Assessment Data & Information Requirements
Source: GMES BICEPS Report

14. Floods Early Warning – Forecast - Impact Assessment Data & Information Requirements
III – 14
Meteorological
geographical features
III – 13
Atmospheric conditions
III – 3
Soils
III – 4
Land-use
II – 2
Landcover
I-8
Hydrography
I- 2
Elevation
III – 7
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Environmental Monitoring
Facilities
III - 12
Natural Risk Zones
III – 18 Habitats and biotopes
III – 19 Species distribution
III-10 Population distribution — demography
III- 6 - Utility and governmental services
Etc.
Source: GMES BICEPS Report

15. Marine Strategy Framework directive
MSFD
Art.4 Marine regions or subregions
Art.8 Assessment
- Environmental status
- Physical, chemical features
- Habitat types
- Biological features
- Hydro-morphology
- Pressures and impacts analysis
Economic and social analysis
INSPIRE
Annex III.16 Sea Regions
Several Annex I/II/III themes related
Requires Consistent methodologies
> Take account of transboundary impacts and features

16. Marine Strategy Framework Directive Data and Information Needs ?
Driving forces
Pressures
State
State
Impact
Source: GMES BICEPS Report

17. TWG-NZ Natural Risk Zones17

19. Roadmap Implementing Rules

20. Annex II/III Grouping of Themes
Elevation
Land cover
Ortho-imagery
Geology
21. Mineral resources (Annex III)
Annex III
Statistical units
10. Population distribution – demography
Buildings
Soil
Land use
Human health and safety
Utility and governmental services
Environmental monitoring facilities
Production and industrial facilities
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
Area management/restriction /regulation zones & reporting units
Natural risk zones
Atmospheric conditions
Meteorological geographical features
Oceanographic geographical features
Sea regions
Bio-geographical regions
Habitats and biotopes
Species distribution
Energy Resources

21. Thematic Working Groups: example
TWG Oceanographic Geographical Features + Sea Regions:
Expert members from and proposed by:
-CNR Ibimet (National Research Council - Institute of BioMeteorology); LaMMA- Regione Toscana- CNR IBIMET
- Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO); IDEE LMO
- HR Wallingford; MyOcean project SDIC
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES ; EEA/ EIONET relation to WISE-Marine
- Science and Technology Facilities Council; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory;
- Agency for Maritime and Coastal Services - Coastal Division - Flemish Hydrography (Flemish government) LMO; GIS-Flanders LMO
-Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) LMO; IDEE Working Group Commiss. on Geomatics
TWG Species Distribution: Flanders Marine Institute EMODnet Biology SDIC 21

22. Important to Participate at Consultation and testing
Roadmap- summary
Call for participation to the testing of DS v2.0 Open until 20 June 2011
- Data specification v April 2011
- Review DSv1.9 (TWGs, DSDT, CT) May 2011 (3 weeks)
- Cross-TWGs+DSDT meeting May 2011
- Data specification v June 2011
Consultation stakeholders June- 21 October 2011
Testing June- 21 October
Comment resolution workshop December2011
Data Specification v April 2012
ISC + IC July 2012 (draft date)
IC meeting October 2012 (draft date)
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23. INSPIRE recommendations to DIKE

25. For more information