1. Michael Lutz, Paul Smits (JRC.B6/I.2), Lydia Martin-Roumegas (ENV.C.2)
Marine pilot
Michael Lutz, Paul Smits (JRC.B6/I.2), Lydia Martin-Roumegas (ENV.C.2)

2. Background
2012: EEA proposes a practical activity on sharing chlorophyll-a data for the MSFD community to get acquainted with INSPIRE as part of Art. 19
2013 grand plan to have a big (4M) MSFD-INSPIRE project funded by the ISA programme
2014 start of small (250k) MSFD INSPIRE pilot
Co-funded by ISA, JRC, and ENV with in-kind contributions from EEA and participating organisations

3. Good Environmental Status (GEnS)
Commission Decision on criteria and methodological standards on Good Environmental Status 2010/477/EU
It applies on:
monitoring programmes
regional sea assessment
reporting process
REPORTING
MONITORING
GES means that uses of the marine resources are conducted at a sustainable level:
Ecosystems, including their hydro-morphological, physical and chemical conditions are fully functioning and in balance
Maintained biodiversity
Human activities are having sustainable effect on marine environment
ASSESSMENT

4. Work packages
1.0 Overview of MSFD requirements in relation of INSPIRE 2.0 INSPIRE-based MSFD spatial data modelling 3.0 Development of the data flow - MS to EC/EEA within national (M)SDI & JRC “Sand Box” 4.0 EMODnet and INSPIRE 5.0 Document and analyse the cost and benefit 6.0 Training and capacity building

5. Key outcomes and lessons learned
What you may know
INSPIRE is all about interoperability.
The national INSPIRE coordination structures should foresee training and awareness raising activities aimed at the marine community. They should also have discussions at national level to agree on the extent to which custodians of marine spatial data should implement INSPIRE.
What you may not know
Networking and community building are paramount to INSPIRE implementation. The guidelines, open source toolbox and the stakeholder engagement process of the INSPIRE marine pilot could be re-used in TG Data

6. 4 May 2019

7. Key outcomes and lessons learned
What you may know
One should see the implementation of, and compliance with, INSPIRE not as a goal in itself, but as a means to facilitate the sharing and re-use of selected marine spatial data sets with other communities.
The national INSPIRE coordination structures should foresee training and awareness raising activities aimed at the marine community. They should also have discussions at national level to agree on the extent to which custodians of marine spatial data should implement INSPIRE.
What you may not know
Rationalise the application of INSPIRE: metadata yes, sharing of data yes, but data harmonization only if it is clear that it adds value

8. Harmonization of MSFD data when it adds value
MSDF monitoring programme on
Human inducted eutrophication
Biological diversity
Concentrations of contaminants
Water Framework Directive X
Nitrate Directive
Environ-mental Quality Standards Directive
E-PRTR
Dangerous Sub-stances Directive
Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
Habitat Directive
Birds Directive
EEA Annual Mnt plan
Including data sets in the INSPIRE requires resources. Priorities for the inclusion of marine spatial datasets in INSPIRE should be guided by their potential for re-use.
Different directives require the same source data with more or less details. Integrating all the requirements into INSPIRE data models (exending them to answer to the all directives requiring those data) permits to re-use the same data serving the different directives.

9. obligations
INSPIRE
WFD
MSFD
OTHER DIRs
(M)SDI

10. DG ENV
EEA
REPORTING
INDICATOR
DESCRIPTOR
INSPIRE
(M)SDI
DATA

11. Key outcomes and lessons learned
What you may know
INSPIRE builds on existing international standards and specifications from ISO, OGC, and thematic communities such as IHO, and adds additional requirements.
What you may not know
MSFD community should adopt relevant data standards; the EC-EEA INSPIRE team should lower the barrier to include ISO-compliant community catalogues like the ones from EMODNET in the INSPIRE geoportal

12. Results from the exercise
MSFD Descriptor D5: Human-induced eutrophication is minimised, especially adverse effects thereof, such as losses in biodiversity, ecosystem degradation, harmful algal blooms and oxygen deficiency in bottom waters
Including following indicators:
Chlorophyll concentration
Issues encountered when combining data from DE, DK, and NL:
Metadata: use of keywords and language
Data: different units of measures, different measurement methods for the same parameter, different field names and values for similar things

13. What INSPIRE offers? Common approach to:
Language
Field description
About field value, some of them are solved with the use of codelists stored in reference multi-languages registries
Definition of field value
Codelists collected in registry/thesauri solves also the meaning of the field value (semantic interoperability)
Indication of methodology applied to compute parameters
On Metadata information
On data model (EMF)

14. What INSPIRE does not solve
Scale of geospatial element
The scale of exposed data are stored in metadata for interoperability
No mandate of exposing specific dataset in a pre-defined scale
Unit of measures
INSPIRE manages the parameters value and the related unit of measures used for them.
No mandate of exposing specific parameter values in a pre-defined unit of measure
These aspects need to be agreed in reporting requirements

15. Thank you!