1. CDDA & INSPIRE work of EEA - preliminary lessons learnt
Mette Lund
Biodiversity group, EEA
Expert group on reporting under the Nature Directives, 17 October 2017

2. The inventory of Nationally designated areas (CDDA)
CDDA is an annual Eionet core data flow
Geographical coverage: 39 countries
The inventory is collected since 1995
The CDDA is the official source of protected area information from European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA)

3. CDDA reporting from 2018 onwards
Motivation for a new CDDA data model and reporting approach for 2018 reporting
Protected sites are among the INSPIRE Annex I themes
The existing CDDA data model has redundant information and outdated reporting approaches
Motivation for using the ”Linked approach” for environmental reporting
To avoid double reporting
To avoid maintenance of overlapping but different thematic data models
Generic and re-usable approach in different data flows
Current reporting obligations
Type 1 Geospatial reference data
(re-using INSPIRE)
Type 2
Environmental data
Type 3 Textual or contextual data and information
MS shall provide data in the scope of INSPIRE (harmonized, interoperable, via network services) by 2020 latest. CDDA related data via INSPIRE Protected Sites already in Nov. 2017!

4. Current reporting approach in CDDA
Reportnet CDR
Geometry (Shapefiles)
Tabular data
(XML/MS Access files)
Upload as package
common identifier
CDDA 2018 approach re-using INSPIRE Protected Sites
INSPIRE model
Protected Sites – Type 1
(GML file)
Geometry & selected elements
Tabular data – Type 2 (XML/XLS files)
Elements ruled by Type 2 data
Reportnet CDR
CDDA Designated Area
Various IDs
Designated area type
Official area (ha)
IUCN category
Major ecosystem type
Marine percentage
Metadata fields
Upload as package
common identifier
Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel
CDDA match
Geometry of site
Site name
Designation date

5. Current reporting approach in CDDA
Reportnet CDR
Geometry (Shapefiles)
Tabular data
(XML/MS Access files)
Upload as package
common identifier
CDDA 2018 approach re-using INSPIRE Protected Sites
INSPIRE model
Protected Sites – Type 1
(GML file)
Geometry and core elements
Tabular data – Type 2 (XML/XLS files)
Elements NOT included in the INSPIRE data models
Reportnet CDR
Upload as package
common identifier
CDDA Designated Area
Various IDs
Designated area type
Official area (ha)
Major ecosystem type
Marine percentage
Metadata fields
Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel
CDDA match
Geometry of site
Site name
Designation date
Designation type
IUCN category

6. Linked Approach and CDDA 2018
Type 1
Type 2
Dataset level
Protected Site 1
Designation A
Object level
Protected Site 2
Designation B
Designation C

7. Understanding the national setting
Who is responsible for INSPIRE PS in your country?
The organization reporting CDDA
Another agency
Nobody (e.g. not EU/EFTA)
CDDA already provided under INSPIRE?
No, but going to happen by Nov. 2017
Only ”as-is”, not harmonized yet
Harmonized according to the PS specifications
GML file needs to be created for CDDA or
Use transformation tools provided by the EEA (based on xls and shp files)
Use ETL tools (e.g. HALE or FME) for mapping & transformation
Type 2 input data
Type 1 input data
CDDA Type 1 reporting file
CDDA Type 2 reporting file
Type 1 – INSPIRE Protected Sites
Type 2 – CDDA reporting data
Reportnet
local copy
upload
Tools

8. Where are we now? Consultation closed 15 September
Finalising the reporting guidelines - October
Adapting Reportnet – CDR and QA/QC
December 2017 – Call for 2018 data collection
March 2018 – Reporting deadline for CDDA reporting

9. Lessons learnt so far
No change at all to the INSPIRE Protected Sites file re-used by CDDA reporting
Important to guide the CDDA reporters to understand the national INSPIRE organisation
Issues with the GML format
Exchange vs storage format
Complex vs flat models

10. Thank you
Support from
Data governance group, EEA
ETC/BD

11. Two ways of re-using INSPIRE models (general application)
Alternative A via (INSPIRE compliant)
file
INSPIRE model
Geometry and core elements
GML file
Tabular data (without elements included in the INSPIRE data models)
common identifier
Upload as package
Reportnet CDR
INSPIRE model
Geometry and core elements
Web feature service link
Tabular data (without elements included in the INSPIRE data models)
common identifier
Alternative B via INSPIRE download service (WFS)
Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel
Step 1 - Upload
Step 2 – Harvest gml file from INSPIRE web service

12. Future web feature service harvesting for reporting?
EEA currently not ready to accept data from web services for obligatory reporting
EEA Reportnet undergoes major update project ( Reportnet 2.0, )
Reporting via web-services is legally/procedurally challenging
Within CDDA ‘18 we will ask countries to provide us with WFS nodes (in parallel) if available for testing
During 2018 EEA will analyse the web-service reporting together with EIONET
Technical and legal challenges needs to be addressed
2020 as target to be ready for web service based reporting for agreed data flows

13. Communalities in protected sites reporting data
Natura 2000 data flow
CDDA data flow
geometry
site name
designation date
designation type