1. Reportnet Reportnet is a system of integrated IT tools and business processes creating a shared information infrastructure optimised to support European environmental reporting Stefan Jensen Reportnet UG meeting September 2004

2. Why do we meet today? To summarise after 5 years of developments - jointly with interested EIONET countries First ideas and then a concept Building and using a system To demonstrate the full operational usage Tool by tool Content by content To get support from a major client: DG Environment To discuss process related issues

3. What are the goals? Improve European environmental reporting by: Streamlining Quality improvement Ensuring transparency and availability of information reported by countries

4. Shared EEIS information Reportnet - Part of the shared European Environmental Information System (EEIS) other countries Users Shared EIONET information Information Infrastructure European Union EEA, Eurostat EEA Member countries Policy makers, Env. experts, Media, Informed public User access shared tools e.g. Reportnet tools EECCA countries International Organisations, Conventions e.g. UNEP, UNECE, OECD, Basel Conv.

5. Reportnet – a system to share with others 4 out of of 14 EIONET priority data flows are exclusive Open Reportnet system architecture 400+ reporting obligations in ROD EEA reports (e.g. Kiev report) use information from other resources

6. How does it look like? The Reportnet “football”

7. Where do we come from? The EEA/EIONET information system

8. R e p o r t n e t t o o l s ROD DD National Datasets National Data Repository gDEM Automatic validation National level DD European level European Data Repository European Datasets Merge of Data Qualitative validation ETCs EEA NFPs Simplified national dataflow

9. Which are related processes? They follow EEA workprogramm priorities Increased quality controll Building a spatial information system (INSPIRE link) Develop towards a full information system (WFD approaches, decentralsisation...)

10. Which standards and technologies are used ? Open source software environment (JAVA, ZOPE) Industry standard technologies (webservices, XML) Accepted standards (ISO 19115, ISO11179, DublinCore) Integration through XML-RPC

11. The operational Reportnet modules CDR (a web interface to upload reported data)CDR ROD (a database of reporting obligations)ROD DIR (A database of roles and contacts)DIR CR (A web interface search engine)CR DD (a database of detailed specifications)DD GDEM (a delivery process and converter) TOGETHER with processes = Reportnet

12. Future maintenance and development Maintenance through EEA core funds including a helpdesk in Brussels Service contracts covering 2005 and (most of) 2006 based on IDA funding Business process reengineering addressing the way institutuions work in environmental data exchange (start August 2004 ) Continued IT developments (start late 2004)

13. Reportnet services and usages For EEA/EIONET data flows A set of integrated services for EEA and others (Calendar of data flows, EEA in ROD) As public web services (http://rod.eionet.eu.int) As open systems (EPER uses ROD, CDR, etc) Data exchange with other systems [XML RPC, RSS, RDF, etc] (Ex. reporting deadlines in calendar on ETC websites)

14. Reportnet reference list Services adopted and maintained by other institutions Water framework directive (Joint Research Centre - JRC) Services of other communities hosted by EEA DISMED EPER (DG Environment – IPPC data flows) (UNCCD) Upcoming cooperations – based on joint indicator discussion Environment and health data (WHO ) Environmental data exchange preparing 4th assessment (UNECE) National adoptions of Reportnet tools (CDR) Under preparation (Belgium, Germany...)