1. Hans Dufourmont Eurostat Unit E4 – Structural Funds
The proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the Community INSPIRE : (COM(2004) 516 final of 23 July 2004) Base elements for WFD reporting
Workshop on Common GIS reporting for Water Information System in Europe
Brussels, 15 november 2004
Hans Dufourmont Eurostat Unit E4 – Structural Funds

2. INSPIRE objectives
Make relevant, harmonised spatial data available for Community Environmental Policy (formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation - Art. 175(1)) and for the citizen ...
… through the establishment of integrated spatial information services, based upon a distributed network of databases, linked by common standards and protocols to ensure compatibility.

3. INSPIRE principles Geographical information should be:
collected once and maintained at the appropriate level;
seamless;
shared;
available;
easy to find and access;
presented in an understandable visual form.

4. Geometric consistency High level semantic and logical consistency
Topological consistency
Semantic consistency
Logical consistency

5. INSPIRE overview General provisions; metadata;
interoperability: harmonised specifications for spatial data sets as described in Annexes I, II, III of the proposal for a Directive and spatial data services;
network services;
data-sharing, and re-use;
co-ordination and monitoring mechanisms;
final provisions

6. I - general provisions
Establish an infrastructure for spatial information in the EU to support:
environmental policies and
policies that directly or indirectly affect the environment,
Based on infrastructures of the Member States that include
metadata, spatial data sets and services; network services; agreements on sharing, access and use; and co-ordination and monitoring mechanisms, processes and procedures.

7. Annex I data Annex II data
Elevation
Identifiers of properties (incl. addresses)
Cadastral parcels
Land cover
Ortho-imagery
Co-ordinate reference system
Geographical grid system
Geographical names
Administrative units
Transport networks
Hydrography
Protected sites
Annex III data
other thematic data

8. II - metadata
Establishment of catalogues for spatial data and for services
Progressive implementation until 6 years after entry into force of Directive
Metadata is the “fuel” of the search engine to the spatial information

9. III – Harmonisation and interoperability
Harmonised spatial data specifications
the key to solving problems with data inconsistency
adopted through comitology
more stringent for Annex I and II than for Annex III
earlier for Annex I than for Annex II and III
Arrangements for the exchange of spatial data

10. III – Harmonisation and interoperability
Harmonised spatial data specifications
Common system of unique identifiers for spatial objects
Relationship between spatial objects
Key attributes and multilingual thesauri
How to exchange the temporal dimension of data
Updates exchange
Consistency between items referring to the same location
Consistency between information referring to the same object at different scales
Implementing rules by 2 years after entry into force for Annex I
2 years after adoption of the implementing rules: new or updated spatial data must be compliant

11. Generic Implementing Rules development process
Initiation phase
Call for interest
Collection of existing reference material
Drafting initial version of Implementing Rules
Review phase
Interaction with stakeholders
Feedback from legally mandated services
Consolidation phase
Broad internet consultation
Iterative cycles

12. The role of Spatial Data Interest Communities
to identify user requirements
to provide experts to the drafting teams
to provide expertise for the review process
to participate in the formal internet consultation
to run and evaluate implementation pilot projects.
to represent a broad spectrum of use cases
awareness raising and training
WFD GIS expert network SDIC

13. Implementing Rules development process
INSPIRE
Expert Group
INSPIRE
Expert Group
INSPIRE
Expert Group
Advices
Advices
Advices
Internal Review Phase
Implementing Rule Drafting Phase
Association Phase
Public Review Phase
SDIC
SDIC
LMO
Consolidation
input and/or resources for drafting
Identification of existing SDIC and relevant initiatives
Drafting Teams
Formal Internet consultation
Projects
LMO = Legally Mandated Organisation
Pilots
CEN, ISO, OGC
WFD GIS expert network
input to drafting: WFD GIS guidelines

14. INSPIRE timeline
2007
Proposal for INSPIRE Framework Legislation adopted by the Commission
23 July 2004
Draft INSPIRE Framework Legislation
September 2003
Position papers by Working groups and user requirements
June 2002
Orientation papers by Working groups
April 2002
Time is running
INSPIRE Framework Legislation adopted
Transposition phase
Implementation phase