1. WISE & INSPIRE FloodsDirective
Latest developments and next steps
Manuela Pfeiffer
Floods Directive Reporting Drafting Group, 26 February Brussels

2. FlD/ WISE / SEIS / INSPIRE
Environmental Reporting
INSPIRE & SEIS
Air
Soil
Water
WISE
Agri-
culture
Climate change
Others …
EU water legislation and other EU reporting activities on water
WFD
UWWTD
NiD
BWD
DWD
MSD
FlD
SoE
JQ-IW

3. INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, Directive 2007/2/EC)
Member States are required to make available
data sets related to one or several of the Annexes in Directive 2007/2/EC and the corresponding
spatial data services in conformity with the
technical arrangements for the interoperability and, where practicable, harmonisation of spatial data sets and services =
Implementing Rules (legally binding, deadlines in „roadmap“):
Metadata („data about data“)
discovery services („decoding“)
view services (web-mapping, .wms)
transformation services (e.g. into ETRS89)
download services (web feature services, .wfs)

4. Streamlining Important Reporting exercises and INSPIRE 2010 2011 2012
2013
2014
2015
2016 …
2021
2nd RBMP/POM
3rd RMBP/POM
WaterFrame workDirective
Measures be made operational
1st RBMP/POM
Streamlining
1st FRMP
2nd FRMP
FloodsDirective
CA and UoM
PFRA
FRM/FHM
If different from WFD
Annex II & III elevation, Landcover and Natural Risk Zones
INSPIRE
Availability of inspireconform restructered Annex-themes
Annex I Hydrography: Watercourse-network, catchments
Reporting-Dates:
WFD FlD
22/03/2010
22/03/2012
22/03/2016
26/05/2010
22/03/2012
22/03/2014
22/03/2016

5. Call for expression of Interest for participation of Data specifications for Annex II and III Data themes:
development of data specifications follows a three step approach:
first step:
establishment of of framework documents that facilitate a harmonised development of data specifications
second step:
drafting of the technical details referred to as „INSPIRE data specifications“
third step:
preparing the legal text based on the outcome of second step (KOM)
 completed

6. Call for expression of Interest for participation of Data specifications for Annex II and III Data themes:
INSPIRE CT (Consolidation Team) forms theme-specific TWG‘s (Technical Working Groups) - still on-going
TWG‘s will develop theme-specific data specifications
version 1.0 in September 2010
version 2.0 in March 2011 (base for stakeholder consultations and extensive testing 03/ /2011)
version 3.0 in January 2012
development of data specification will start from environmental use cases – which in most cases will involve data from several themes.
• Since INSPIRE will be built on existing spatial data sets, the existing data in the Member States will be an important factor in the scoping of the INSPIRE data specifications in addition to the environmental use cases.

7. D2.3 Definition of Annex Themes and scope - v3.0
Links and overlaps with other themes:
The broad field of natural risks may link and overlap may other themes, mostly concerning physical environment as
Land use (land use plans may reflect risk zones),
Elevation,
Hydrography,
Land cover,
Geology,
Environmental protection facilities,
Meteorological geographical features,
Oceanographic geographical features.

8. Expectance:
Important input from Floods directive to the INSPIRE process
But also:
INSPIRE could impact the reporting specifications of Floods directive (1st FRMP and following reporting exercises)
How to get involved?
INSPIRE Annex II + III themes user requirements survey
Form available under:
closing date: 31st March 2010

9. PREVIEW Flood forecasting
increase preparedness for flood events across Europe

10. Main Information for Requirements: 11 mandatory questions
1. Title of task: e. g. Flood forecasting
2. Purpose of the task: e. g. increase preparedness for flood events across Europe
3. Is the task required by existing legislation? choice: Y/N/Unknown + comment (e. g. Directive 2007/60/EC (EU Floods Directive)
4. Who is involved? List of all parties who have an active role in the task or are influenced by this task (name of e. g. data providers, data transformer, services providers, data coordinators etc., role(s) and descricption of role(s) optional)
5. Describe the process necessary for achieving the task e. g. step1: user to decide what type of features they need, step2: …, step3: …
6. Format of results of the task e. g. documentation, report, data base, data set, service, etc.

11. Main Information for Requirements: 11 mandatory questions
7. Select the INSPIRE Annex II+III data theme/s related to the task select one or more themes to which the input/output data are related (choices are: 34 INSPIRE Annex I-III themes; document for last meeting identified 23 out of 34 themes as relevant for FD!)
8. What is the geographical extent (coverage) of the task? Select one or more levels of geographical extent (coverage) which are relevant to the described task (choices are: Global, EU, International, Crossborder, National, Regional, Local)
9. Do you agree to be contacted to collect additional information related to this survey? Y/N
10. Contact person information conditional if answer for question 9. was „Y“
11. Can you provide further relevant material related to the describe task? Answer and optional it‘s possible to use upload facility to attach further related material or include a link

12. Additional Information on Requirements: optional questions
12. What is the stage of the task implementation: choice: Task (process) already implemented, Task (process) implemention is planned
13. Do you use any international or national standards for the task? choice: Y/N and comment, e. g. OpenGIS Web Map Service, ISO 19115, geographic information, metadata
14. Can you provide detailed information about the input data source/s used for the task? Name of information (e. g. wind speed), data source (e. g. National hydrometeorological institutes); to identify relevant objects, attributes, relationships and other information related to data specification development process
15. Can you provide detailed information about the output data source/s used for the task (if relevant)? Name of information … (as for question 14.)
16. Can you identify any other detailed information about the missing and required data source(s) for the task (if relevant)? Name of information … (as for question 14.)

13. WG F Drafting Group – engagement
1. User requirements survey:
One feedback as „WG F Drafting Group“ or individual feedbacks?
Adjusted documents and endorsed RS should be submitted
2. Support for Thematic Working Group (TWG) activities:
How will WG F Drafting Group support activities?
feedbacks to draft documents?
attending workshops?