Transcript INSPIRE & SEIS because Good Decisions need Good Information timely available INSPIRE: Scope of the Directive INSPIRE: State-of-Play Implementation INSPIRE, SEIS & e-Government EC INSPIRE TEAM Joint.

INSPIRE & SEIS
because Good Decisions need Good
Information timely available
INSPIRE: Scope of the Directive
INSPIRE: State-of-Play Implementation
INSPIRE, SEIS & e-Government
EC INSPIRE TEAM
Joint Research Centre - Directorate-General
Environment – EUROSTAT
European Commission
Sustainable Development and Integration Directorate
Hugo de Groof, [email protected]
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Better and timely Information, better and timely Decisions
• The Sixth Environment Action Programme confirmed the
crucial need for sound and robust information
• Forest fires, floods and droughts, the challenge of adapting
to climate change and the loss of biodiversity, underline the
need for accurate environmental information to be made
quickly and easily available.
• Reporting and Monitoring requirements under Community
law are the main drive for collecting data and information.
European Commission – DG Environment
Sustainable Development and Integration Directorate
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But……..
The vast amount of data collected by public authorities
across the EU is not timely available when it is needed and
matters for decision making
 range of obstacles of a legal, financial, technical and
procedural nature
Despite good progress with modernising and streamlining
reporting obligations and systems e.g. WISE, the situation
is still patchy:
 Each piece of environmental legislation has it own reporting system and
data flows.
 In some cases this data is not even reported electronically
 INSPIRE Directive: the EU is moving towards a distributed system for online access and sharing of spatial data
Limited capability to quickly (=seamlessly) turn data to
policy relevant information and implement efficiently
(seamlessly) integrated approaches to environmental
policy.
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Therefore… INSPIRE:
Bringing data and services together
through a Spatial Data Infrastructure
Data and
services easily
discoverable
and accessible
to users
Like a road infrastructure
makes it possible to connect
different places,
a spatial data infrastructure
makes it possible to connect
data and services located at
different sources
Easier
development of
new applications
and services
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In order to built INSPIRE & SEIS,
we need:
Institutional framework:
Collaboration & Co-ordination
The KEYS
Infrastructure:
•Technical Standards
•Architecture
Fundamental Information
data sets Services
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INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC)*: Into Force 15/5/2007
General Provisions
• INSPIRE lays down general rules to establish an
infrastructure for spatial information in Europe for the
purposes of Community environmental policies and policies
or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
– This infrastructure shall build upon infrastructures for spatial
information established and operated by the Member States.
• INSPIRE does not require collection of new spatial data –
electronic format
• INSPIRE does not affect Intellectual Property Rights or
statistical confidentiality
* http://eur-lex.europa.eu
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INSPIRE Scope
• Spatial data held by or on behalf of a public
authority operating down to the lowest level of
government when laws or regulations require
their collection or dissemination
• INSPIRE covers 34 Spatial Data Themes laid
down in 3 Annexes – (required to successfully
build environmental information systems)
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INSPIRE - Data Sharing
•
Member States shall adopt measures for the sharing of data
and services between public authorities for public tasks
relating to the environment without restrictions occurring at
the point of use.
•
Public authorities may charge, license each other and
Community institutions provided this does not create an
obstacle to sharing.
•
When spatial data or services are provided to Community
institutions for reporting obligations under Community law
relating to the environment then this will not be subject to
charging.
•
Member States shall provide the institutions and bodies of the
Community with access to spatial data sets and services in
accordance with harmonised conditions. Implementing Rule
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INSPIRE - Technical
INSPIRE is a Framework Directive
“Implementing Rules” for:
I.
Metadata
II.
Interoperability of spatial data sets and
services
III.
Network services (discovery, view,
download, transform, invoke) - European
geo-portal
IV.
V.
Data and Service sharing EU / MS
Coordination and measures for monitoring
& reporting
“Implementing Rules” to adopt according to directive “roadmap”
“Implementing Rules” bottom-up development with stakeholders
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From Commission proposal
to Community Directive implementation
• Preparatory phase (2004-2006)
– Co-decision procedure
– Start of preparation of Implementing Rules
• Transposition phase (2007-2009)
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–
–
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Directive entered into force 15 May 2007
INSPIRE Committee starts its activities 26 June 2007
Continuation of preparation of Implementing Rules
Transposition into national legislation
Adoption of Implementing Rules by Comitology
• Implementation phase (2009-2013)
– Implementation and monitoring of measures
– Continuation of preparation of Implementing Rules
– Adoption of Implementing Rules by Comitology
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* = date proposed by Commission
Roadmap for IR adoption
(http://inspire.jrc.it/reports/transposition/INSPIRE_IR_WP2007_2009_en.pdf)
Milestone
date
Article
2007-05-15
Description
Entry into force of INSPIRE Directive
2007-08-15
22§2
Establishment of the INSPIRE Committee
2008-05-15
5§4
Adoption of IR for the creation and updating of metadata
2008-05-15
21(4)
2008-05-15*
16
Adoption of IR for discovery and view services
2008-11-15*
16
Adoption of IR for download services
2008-11-15*
Adoption of IR for monitoring and reporting
Adoption of IR for data exchange
2008-11-15*
16(a)
Adoption of IR for coordinates transformation service
2009-05-15*
17(8)
Adoption of IR governing the access rights of use to spatial data sets
and services for Community institutions and bodies
2009-05-15
9(a)
Adoption of IRs for the interoperability and harmonisation of spatial
data sets and services for Annex I spatial data themes
2009-05-15
24§1
Provisions of Directive are brought into force in MS
2010-11-15*
16
2012-05-15
9(b)
Adoption of IR for invoke "spatial data service"
Adoption of the IR s for the interoperability and harmonisation of
spatial data sets and services for Annex II and III spatial data themes
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* = date proposed by Commission
Roadmap (Implementation)
Milestone
date
Article
Description
2010-05-15
21§1
Implementation of provisions for monitoring
2010-05-15
6(a)
Metadata available for spatial data corresponding to Annex I and II
2010-05-15*
16
Discovery and view services operational
2010-05-15
15
The EC establishes and runs a geo-portal at Community level
2010-11-15*
16
Download services operational
2010-11-15*
16(a)
Coordinates transformation services operational
2011-05-15
7§3, 9(a)
Newly collected and extensively restructured Annex I spatial data sets
available
2012-11-15*
16
Invoke "spatial data service" services operational
2013-05-15
6(b)
Metadata available for spatial data corresponding to Annex III
2014-05-15
7§3, 9(b)
Newly collected and extensively restructured Annex II and III spatial
data sets available
2016-05-15
7§3, 9(a)
Other Annex I spatial data sets available
2019-05-15
7§3, 9(b)
Other Annex II and III spatial data sets available
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INSPIRE IR Development process
Commission Services co-ordinate
Prototypes
test
Draft
Implementing Rules
Formal Internet Consultation
Review
EC Consolidation Team
Call for Interest
Existing Reference Material
Drafting
Teams
EP
Council
scrutiny
EC
adopts
Implementing Rules
INSPIRE
Committee
votes
INSPIRE Expert Group
advises
Pilots
Projects
contribute
Experts are
proposed
validate
Spatial Data Interest Communities participate
LMOs
re-view
Public
reviews
MS
apply
CEN, ISO, OGC
contribute
Association phase
2005
Drafting phase
Review phase
2007
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Work Programme 2007-2009
Implementing Rule development cycle
Directive Requirements
Reference materials
Drafting of IR
INSPIRE
Drafting Teams
Manage
evolution of IRs
Testing of draft IR
INSPIRE
Stakeholders
(SDICs, LMOs):
1. Reference material
2. Experts
3. Projects
Stakeholder/Public
consultation
Commission
Decision
Regulatory process
INSPIRE
Committee
Commission
inter-service
consultation
Open registration at:
http://inspire.jrc.it/sdic_call/index.cfm
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Results of
the call for
Experts
Opened on 1
March 2005
Experts
registered per
country
1-06-2007
22-06-2005
Spatial Data Interest
Communities (SDICs)
139
Spatial Data Interest
Communities (SDICs)
Legally Mandate
Organisations (LMOs)
89
Legally Mandate
Organisations (LMOs)
Proposed Experts
193
Referenced Materials
96
Identified Projects
94
Proposed Experts
Referenced Materials
Identified Projects
201
(+45%)
116
(+30%)
210 (+9%)
144
(+50%)
112
15
(+19%)
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The INSPIRE EU Geoportal
• Required by the INSPIRE
directive (art.15)
• Provides access to the Member
States INSPIRE services
• Development under EC
responsibility
– Aim to provide an
operational platform to
satisfy the requirements of
the directive and IR
– Geoportal dependent on the
IR development
• The INSPIRE Geoportal will be
operated by the EC
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Current & Future Developments
•
Alignment of metadata editor, search criteria and discovery
with INSPIRE (draft) IR (2007-2009)
•
View services according to INSPIRE (draft) IR
(2007-2010)
•
•
Multi-lingual (2007-2010)
Provide reference info to DTs (continuous)
– feature catalogues, glossary etc
•
•
Download services, incl. security (2009-2011)
Registries (continuous)
Under development at: http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/
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INSPIRE Governance Structures
•
The Commission (Article 22)
– Shall be assisted by a Committee -> Comitology Procedure
– Coordinating INSPIRE at Community level assisted by relevant
organisations and, in particular, by the European Environment Agency
•
The Member States
– Are members of the Committee (Article 22)
– Contact points to the Commission supported by a coordination
structure, taking account of the distribution of powers and
responsibilities within the Member State. (Article 19)
•
Other Parties
– European standardisation bodies (Article 20)
– Representatives of Member States at national, regional and local level
as well as other natural or legal persons, including users, producers,
added value service providers or any coordinating body (Article 7)
• The European Parliament and Council
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Implementing INSPIRE
• The implementation of INSPIRE needs to consider the broader context of
existing initiatives which could contribute
• The INSPIRE implementation should interface with those partnerships and
initiatives where relevant and establish synergy*
• SDIC bundle the human expertise of users, producers and transformers of
spatial information, technical competence, financial resources and
policies. Many SDIC exist today, generally organised by region, thematic
issue or sector (industry).
*e.g. GEOSS, GMES, GALILEO, GSDI, Aarhus
Clearing House?
concept of Spatial Data Interest
Communities (SDIC)
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Conclusions
• Innovative dual approach
– Top-down: INSPIRE is a framework Directive with implementing rules
to be adopted in the coming years.
– Bottom-up: Highest involvement of key stakeholders (through the
“Spatial Data Interest Community” concept) needed for development,
implementation and sustained operation
– Openness and transparency in drafting implementing measures a must
– Pilots and Projects important to define/validate the implementing rules
– Links and interfaces with Community (GMES, eGov etc..) and other
international initiatives (GEOSS, GSDI etc.) essential
• Transposition of INSPIRE, within the fixed time, to National
Legislation in each Member State is crucial
• Urgent need of establishing coordinating bodies and structures to
start INSPIRE implementation
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Therefore…the SEIS
SEIS is a collaborative initiative of the Commission, the EEA and
MSs to establish an integrated, common, shared, multipurpose
and sustained information system in Europe serving two main
purposes:

improve the timely availability, sharing and quality of
environmental data and information (or data impacting
environmental policies) within Europe and provision of eGovernment/e-Environment services to public policy makers
and citizens;

offer to MSs and EU institutions an efficient reporting system
to fulfil their reporting obligations related to Community
environmental policies and legislation, avoiding duplication of
efforts, overlapping and redundancies
 A System where the public authorities are the providers but also the21
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SEIS concept:
 integrated but distributed web-enabled "system of systems" in which current
systems based on reporting data and information (including documents)
centrally are increasingly replaced by e-Reporting systems based on access,
sharing and interoperability.
 SEIS will be based on a distributed network virtual and institutional of public
information providers (or other providers acting on behalf of public providers)
for sharing environmental data and information.
 It will be built incrementally upon existing infrastructures, systems and eServices in both MSs and EU institutions, virtually interconnecting them and
making them to 'talk to each other' (inter-operable).
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Five issues as prerequisites for
a good and efficient SEIS, meeting its objectives:
• deployment of an efficient, interoperable infrastructure for on-line
accessing and sharing data and information and provision of
information services;
• modernising the reporting requirements and systems with a view to
developing a coherent, common and shared reporting system based on
access, sharing and interoperability;
• enhance quality and comparability of the data and information going
into the SEIS system
• availability of ‘interoperable’ methodologies (e.g. for integrated
cross-sectoral assessments or risk assessment and forecast) and eGovernement services to seamlessly implement them (e.g. decision
support systems);
• "interoperability of policies", i.e. policy coherence.
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INSPIRE and GMES: key partners in developing the SEIS
 The effective implementation of the INSPIRE directive: main basis for
delivering those aspects of the SEIS system that have to do with
interoperability, sharing and access of spatial environmental data.
 SEIS beyond INSPIRE:
-
non-spatial data and non-numerical information
provision of information services related to a coherent reporting system and eGovernment/e-Environment to support decision making and inform the citizens.
 The GMES would contribute to SEIS with the provision of e-Environment
services such as the fast track services in Land, Marine, Emergency
Response which will allow to turn quickly and seamlessly data to policy
relevant information (e.g. information integration for indicators and
enabling integrated assessments
How about UNECE Clearing House?
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Communication on SEIS: From Concept to Reality
 Will set out overall framework/ vision
for an
integrated Shared Environmental Information
System
 Concrete measures in the Communication:
 Carefully monitor INSPIRE implementation and GMES further
development to fit real needs
 Early revision of standardised reporting directive (before November
2008)
 Assessment of potential to further harmonise in-situ monitoring
 EEA to make SEIS centre of its strategy for fulfilling its mandate
 Allocation of Community funds (LIFE+, structural)
Adoption in January 2008
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Conclusions 1
• INSPIRE & SEIS are ‘tools’ for developing,
implementing and monitoring environmental
policies more timely and more cost-efficiently
• Their benefits will be tangible for all levels of
society
• INSPIRE is a Directive developed by – and
for the benefits of the stakeholders – the
bottom-up approach
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Conclusions 2
• INSPIRE includes also a technical framework with
implementing rules developed and adopted in the
coming years
• INSPIRE is an essential pillar, a first step, of a
broader vision for a European Shared
Environmental Information System which includes
the many applications for environmental
management and reporting built on the INSPIRE
foundations
• There is a lot of scope for collaboration between
UNECE Clearing House and INSPIRE/SEIS
• More info at: http://inspire.jrc.it, www.ec27
gis.org; [email protected]
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SEIS data and information content
data and information required by :
 EC Environment legislation, existing or upcoming
 State of the Environment Information (including information
provided voluntarily) –EEA’s data flows
 Data collected in the context of International environmental
conventions in which the EU is a party
 Environment-related information and data collected/required by
other EC policies .
 The ambition of SEIS however is to develop a flexible
infrastructure that would allow other data collections, flows and
systems beyond the above four categories to ' plug in' on the
basis of mutual benefits.
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SEIS Information Services
 E.g. of Information Services for Public Policy Makers and
Citizens that can ‘plug in’ to SEIS/INSPIRE infrastructure:
– Software applications implementing in a transparent and traceble way
methodologies for integrated assessments across policy domains
(DPSIR : driving forces, pressures, state, impact, response),
integrated assessment of ecosystems and of climate changes.
– Decision support systems for assessment of environmental impacts
of big infrastructures/installations taking into account also socioeconomic aspects).
– Dissemination and public information portals on DPSIR, geo referenced emergency alerting systems-, forecasting of risks .
– Automated report generators etc: to decrease the administrative
burden of MSs from reporting obligations to EC
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