1. CDDA & INSPIRE work of EEA - lessons from implementation so far
Mette Lund
Biodiversity group, EEA
NRC EIS, 23 November 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The existing CDDA data model has redundant information and outdated reporting approaches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. 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

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

7. 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

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