1. www.jrc.ec.europa.eu Serving society Stimulating innovation Supporting legislation Workshop INSPIRE and Reporting under environmental acquis JRC, Ispra 27-28 January 2015 Overview from short questionnaire Vanda Nunes de Lima

2. Summary from short questionnaire 3 questions: 1- what, where have INSPIRE been used / planned 2- How is coordination ensured between implementation of INSPIRE and other policies 3- Role of MIG and MIWP-21 19 Member States replied, 17 filled in Aim is not to derive statistics; it is to get input from MS for discussion If agreed, we upload the filled questionnaire in the MIG WIKI

3. Question 1- some issues Different answers: INSPIRE used, planned and not used; next questions explain different meanings for the same category; E.g. Used in, under discussion, planning: air quality: CZ, DE, FR,SP,CR,SW,NO,NL, WFD: DE, SP, SK, PT,FI, HU MSFD: DE, SP, CR E-PRTR: DE, SK Large Combustion Plans: SK IED:SK,CR, SW Floods: FR,SP,SK, CY UWWTD:SK, SL Nitrates: SK DWD: SK Habitats: SP CDDA: SK Noise: CR IPR: NL EIA: CY

4. Question 1- some issues Not always the INSPIRE used for statutory report is reflected in INSPIRE M&R and/or geoportal: To consider fragmentation of domain related data Rarely spatial data required for statutory report are integrated inside the monitoring list of data sets (as it was done in DE) Which measures were taken to make data & services “discoverable & used by INSPIRE? E.g. SK answer

5. Question 1- some issues For reflection: “Yes, already used for air quality But: it’s not that INSPIRE infrastructure has been used to support reporting. Once reporting to EEA is done, the dataset is displayed by view services at National INSPIRE Geoportal.”

6. Question 2- some issues Coordination ensured in some cases by a “special working group or similar” between environmental reporting community and INSPIRE implementation coordination body and support MIG from National view There is no overview of reporting obligations roadmap and priorities, no tentative matching; There are plans for future like “INSPIRE information day”, joint workshop/meetings for information, working groups…

7. Question 2- difficulties reported “There are no direct requirements to use INSPIRE on other Directives” and reporting “Bringing communities together “Non conformant specifications Monitoring programmes & data flows are often at local level Mapping INSPIRE data models and reporting is time and resource consuming; complexity to understand 2 Directives Need to make INSPIRE known Unclear data sharing conditions Need to harmonise reporting requirements Technical capacities Lack of human and financial resources Existence of more updated Spatial data during a reporting cycle than the one used for reporting e.g.WFD

8. Question 3- Harmonising legal obligations for INSPIRE implementation and reporting under environmental acquis More best practices Inform about EU meetings involving other Directives Common roadmap “Provide NCPs relevant names/institutions involved on implementing other Directives” Annual meeting of environmental reporters & NCPs “Start Pilots on INSPIRE & statutory reporting MIWP-21 should put it in the agenda; identify & comparing benefits Keeping track/ give overview of actual status of integration

9. Breakout Session 1- How to ensure coordination between implementation of INSPIRE and of environmental acquis -At National level; at EU level -From where to come the initiative; governance -Provide answer/action/recommendation to each difficulty - Add National INSPIRE expert at any Expert Group in support to environmental policy

10. Breakout Session 2- Exploiting the INSPIRE infrastructure - geoportal user interfaces, data/services content, INSPIRE registry - why not yet sharing data using services? -Limitations are more at coordination or technical level? Which? Suggestions for improvement -What is missing? Suggestions for improvement -What needs to be improved?

11. Breakout Session 3- Is the strategy for defining National data sets – INSPIRE M&R- good enough for environmental acquis? What is “accepted” to be considered “INSPIRE conformant” and “aligned with INSPIRE” when INSPIRE is still under implementation? How to correct / complete INSPIRE implementation when the data set containing spatial object / related theme has more information than what reporting requires? And, adding to that, if it is under the responsibility of other public authority, not involved on statutory reporting?

12. Breakout Session 4- Role of MIG in implementation INSPIRE for statutory reporting Role of MIG-P; relation with coordination of implementation; setting priorities and help matching roadmaps Role of MIG-T; support technical implementation new policy requirements from applications/pilots Tasks of MIWP-21