1. European Commission EUROSTAT E4
INSPIRE Directive
Data specifications
Annex II and III
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 principles INSPIRE Geoportal
INSPIRE data specifications
Other INSPIRE implementing rules
INSPIRE implementation
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. 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.

5. 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

6. EU Geoportal = Central Access Point
Provides access to the Member States INSPIRE services
Operated by the EC

7. 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

8. Implementing rules for data specifications
Draft COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No …/.. of […] Implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Annex I:
Positive opinion of the INSPIRE Committee (Dec 2009, June 2010)
Currently under scrutiny: EP, Council
adoption by the EC foreseen within the end of the year
Annex II and III
Call for experts November 2009
Working schedule: see next slide

9. Roadmap for the development of Annex II and III data themes
February 2010
Set-up of Thematic Working Groups
March 2010
Workshop with National Contact Points
present the composition of TWGs
discuss proposal for Working Group on Data Interoperability & Harmonisation: implementation and maintenance
19-20 April 2010
Kick-off with Facilitators and Editors
Autumn 2010
Data Specifications v1.0
Spring 2011
Data Specifications v2.0
Summer 2011
Stakeholder consultation and testing on v2.0
End 2011
2012
Data Specifications V3.0
Drafting IR for Annex II and III themes

10. TWGs to participate
TWG - Statistical units and Population distribution
Statistical Units: Units for dissemination or use of statistical information.
Population distribution — demography: Geographical distribution of people, including population characteristics and activity levels, aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.
TWG - Utility and governmental services
Includes utility facilities such as sewage, waste management, energy supply and water supply, administrative and social governmental services such as public administrations, civil protection sites, schools and hospitals.
TWG - Production and industrial facilities
Industrial production sites, including installations covered by Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control (1) and water abstraction facilities, mining, storage sites.
TWG - Area management/restriction, regulation zones & reporting units
Areas managed, regulated or used for reporting at international, European, national, regional and local levels. Includes dumping sites, restricted areas around drinking water sources, nitrate-vulnerable zones, regulated fairways at sea or large inland waters, areas for the dumping of waste, noise restriction zones, prospecting and mining permit areas, river basin districts, relevant reporting units and coastal zone management areas.

11. 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

12. 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

13. Utility and governmental services
(INSPIRE, 2007) Includes utility facilities such as sewage, waste management, energy supply and water supply, administrative and social governmental services such as public administrations, civil protection sites, schools and hospitals.
A very broad INSPIRE theme including different kinds of objects:
Oil and gas pipelines
Water pipelines
Sewage pipelines
Transmission lines- electrical
Transmission lines-phone/ data/cable-TV
Wastewater treatment facilities and waste storage
Environmental protection facilities (e.g. anti-noise constructions)

14. Production and industrial facilities
(INSPIRE, 2007) Industrial production sites, including installations covered by Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control * and water abstraction facilities, mining, storage sites.
* OJ L 257, , p.26 Directive as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003
Location of production industry, mines, waste/disposal sites and energy production facilities. Concerning industry these may be chemical, hydrocarbons (oil-gas), mines or any other industry. Usage of PRTR categories as common nomenclature for such facilities is relevant as it comprises a very broad set relevant industrial activities. The categorisation may be mapped to other international categorisation systems like NACE, SERIEE or ISIC.
The definition mentions also water abstraction, mining and storage sites. The latter may be storage sites for different kinds of "products" needed as input in industrial/production processes, or may be seen as storage sites for real products and also form "waste" from the production process.

15. Area management/restriction, regulation zones & reporting units
(INSPIRE, 2007) Areas managed, regulated or used for reporting at international, European, national, regional and local levels. Includes dumping sites, restricted areas around drinking water sources, nitrate-vulnerable zones, regulated fairways at sea or large inland waters, areas for the dumping of waste, noise restriction zones, prospecting and mining permit areas, river basin districts, relevant reporting units and coastal zone management areas.
A wide range of management areas both at European, national, regional and local levels. The themes and its feature types allow information content from any sector – e.g. environmental, transport, health, education, energy, fisheries, agriculture.
Sector-specific management areas contain information about management zones in sectors, not already being covered by the INSPIRE theme "Administrative units".
Examples: health care management regions, defence enrolment regions, school regions, fire fighter management regions, police responsibility regions, rescue operation regions, National and IMO adopted Traffic Separation Schemes (TSS) and Deep Water Routes, Military Practice Areas, Explosive Dumping Grounds etc.

16. Statistical offices currently involved in TWG
DE: Federal Statistical Office of Germany
FR: National institute for statistics and for economic studies
NL: Statistics Netherlands (CBS)
PL: Central Statistical Office
SE: Statistics Sweden
UK: Office for National Statistics
Eurostat

17. INSPIRE Implementing rules
Metadata for discovery
Commission Regulation No 2008/1205/EC of 3 December 2008
Data specifications (Annexes I – III)
Annex I: in the adoption process (foreseen for end 2010)
Annex II and III: for vote to Committee in May 2012
Network services
Discovery service, View service:
Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009
Download service, Transformation service: in the adoption process (foreseen for end 2010)
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
Commission Regulation (EU) No 268/2010 of 29 March 2010
Monitoring and reporting
Commission Decision No 2009/443/EC of 5 June 2009

18. Implementation of INSPIRE
15-May-2010: Monitoring and reporting (first delivery)
30-Jun-2011: Geo-portal at Community level
03-Dec-2010: Metadata: Annex I and II
Nov  2011: Discovery and view services
Dec  2012(1): Transformation services
Dec (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(2): Spatial data sets: Annex II and III – all
1   Date proposed by the commission
2   Date depending on entry into force of measure

19. 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!

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