(2) INSPIRE principles, components and implementation

(2) INSPIRE principles, components and implementation

European Commission Joint Research Centre

Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit

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2/32Training: INSPIRE BasicsEC JRC

Outline

• INSPIRE Directive• INSPIRE Principles• INSPIRE Components• INSPIRE Geoportal• INSPIRE Roadmap• INSPIRE Maintenance and

Implementation• Role of the JRC in INSPIRE• Summary


Why Europe needs a spatial data infrastructure (SDI)?

•Natural Disasters and as well as other environmental phenomena do not stop at national borders! •20% of the EU citizens (115 million) live within 50 Km from a border

• 70% of all fresh water bodies in Europe are part of a trans-boundary river basin !!


Building a European SDI is complex

•Europe is a patchwork of several countries with different traditions, cultures and socio-economic models

• This is reflected in the different ways in which geo-spatial data is managed


INSPIRE Directive“Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the

European Community”


INSPIRE Directive

• The INSPIRE directive came into force on 15 May 2007 and will be implemented in various stages, with full implementation required by 2020

• The INSPIRE directive aims to create a European Union (EU) SDI. This will enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe

• A European SDI will assist in policy-making across boundaries. Therefore the spatial information considered under the directive is extensive and includes a great variety of topical and technical themes


INSPIRE DirectiveGeneral rules to establish an Infrastructure for Spatial

Information in Europe for • Community environmental policies and policies• Policies or activities which impact on the environment

INSPIRE is built on the SDIs established and operated by the Member States

Spatial data held by/on behalf of public authorities

Does not require collection of new data

INSPIRE is a Framework Directive

• Detailed technical provisions in Implementing Rules

JRC is the technical coordinator


A collaborative effort

•Transparency and inclusiveness •Stakeholder consultations •Support to Member States on the implementation•Extend INSPIRE to and ensure consistency of different policy domains•Promote INSPIRE in international standardisation


INSPIRE Principles

• Data should be collected only once and kept where it can be maintained most effectively

• It should be possible to combine seamless spatial information from different sources across Europe and share it with many users and applications

• It should be possible for information collected at one level/scale to be shared with all levels/scales; detailed for thorough investigations, general for strategic purposes

• Geoinformation needed for good governance at all levels should be readily and transparently available

• Easy to find what geoinformation is available, how it can be used to meet a particular need, and under which conditions it can be acquired and used


INSPIRE Directive & Implementing Rules

• The INSPIRE Directive 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

• Implementing Rules (IR, legal acts)• Metadata • Interoperability of spatial data sets and services• Services (discovery, view, download, transform, invoke)• Data and Service sharing (policy)• Monitoring & reporting


INSPIRE in a nutshell

• Comprehensive data inventory (Monitoring & Reporting IR)• Facilitate data discovery through standardised discoveryservices & metadata (IR on Network Services & Metadata)• Data sharing (IR on Data and Service Sharing)• Facilitate data access by allowing standardised view, download and transformation (IR on Network Services)• Facilitate data use and interoperability by adopting common cross-domain models to exchange data (IR on Data Interoperability)


INSPIRE Legal Acts published in the Official Journal of the EU

• Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE) 14.03.2007• INSPIRE Metadata Regulation 03.12.2008 (corrigendum 15.12.2009)• Commission Decision regarding INSPIRE monitoring and reporting

05.06.2009• Regulation on INSPIRE Network Services 19.10.2009 (View and

discovery)• Regulation on INSPIRE Data and Service Sharing 29.03.2010• Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as

regards download services and transformation services 10.12.2010

• Commission Regulation implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 10.12.2010 (Annex I)

• Commission Regulation amending Regulation 1089/2010 as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 05.02.2011 (code list)

• Annex II+III amendment to Regulation on the interoperability of spatial data sets and services 10.12.2013.

European law affecting 30+ countries, 21+ languages


INSPIRE IRs vs. TG


INSPIRE components


INSPIRE data themes

Annex I1. Coordinate reference

systems2. Geographical grid

systems3. Geographical names4. Administrative units5. Addresses6. Cadastral parcels7. Transport networks8. Hydrography9. Protected sites

Annex II1. Elevation2. Land cover3. Ortho-imagery4. Geology

Annex III1. Statistical units2. Buildings3. Soil4. Land use5. Human health and

safety6. Utility and

governmental services7. Environmental

monitoring facilities8. Production and

industrial facilities9. Agricultural and

aquaculture facilities10.Population distribution

– demography

11. Area management/ restriction/regulation zones & reporting units

12. Natural risk zones13. Atmospheric conditions14. Meteorological

geographical features15. Oceanographic

geographical features16. Sea regions17. Bio-geographical

regions18. Habitats and biotopes19. Species distribution20. Energy Resources21. Mineral resources


INSPIRE data themes

• Data Interoperability• Regulation on data interoperability for Annex I data themes published in 2010• Common UML data model for all themes • 2-7 years (after adoption) for MS to make data compliant• Annex II/III data themes ongoing (2013)


Metadata

• “Data about data”• European Union Regulation (1205/2008)• 2 years for Member States to create metadata (5 years for Annex III)• Technical guidelines material (updated in November 2013)• Metadata Editor for Discovery Metadata• http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/ • Metadata Validator (extended to validate as well network services)• http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/validator2/


Metadata


Network Services

• Discovery & View Service Regulation published 2009• Amendment on Download & Transformation Service published 2010• Member States to make services available in 2011/13• Initial Operating Capability Task Force to support Member States in the implementation


Network Services

• Discovery services Through metadata and catalogues (DS), publish and find

• INSPIRE Data sets• INSPIRE Data set series• INSPIRE Network services

• View services Maps

• Download and Transformation services Download predefined data sets (atom) or data objects (WFS) Transform coordinates or data models

• Invoke and Spatial Data Services More generic services


Data and service sharing

•Art. 17 INSPIRE Directive (applicable since May 2009)• MS shall adopt measures to enable public authorities to gain access to

spatial data sets and to exchange and use them for the purposes of public

tasks that may have an impact on the environment• Public authorities can license data and/or require payment for them• Charges must be kept to the minimum required to ensure the necessary

quality and supply of spatial data sets and services together with a

reasonable return on investment• Data provided to EU as part of reporting obligation must be free of charge

•Regulation published in March 2010• Access to spatial data sets and services of the Member States by

Community institutions and bodies under harmonised conditions• Guidelines and good practice documents 2013


Monitoring and Reporting

• Commission Decision 2009/442/EC of 5 June 2009 • Monitoring

• According to Commission Decision 2009/442/EC of 5 June 2009

implementing the INSPIRE Directive, EU Member States have to report

annually a number of indicators for monitoring the implementation and use

of their infrastructures for spatial information

• Reporting

• Report including i.a. information on the coordinating structures, on the use

of the infrastructure for spatial information, on data-sharing agreements and

on the costs and benefits of implementing the INSPIRE Directive, is prepared

and submitted every three years, starting in 2010

• Guidelines templates and justification document


INSPIRE Geoportal

Central access point to the INSPIRE infrastructure and resources (operated by the EC)

“The face” of INSPIRE

• Connection to all MS network services

cross-border data discovery and visualisation

support to European policy making


Implementation Roadmap


INSPIRE implementation status

• The legal framework has been established

• Development of NSDIs across EU according to provisions of the Directive

• Many components and services of infrastructure are already in place

• Implementation of INSPIRE is entering a new phase (focus is now on MS)

• MIF = Maintenance and implementation framework


Maintenance and Implementation

• Support to the implementation of the IRs, e.g.• Answering questions around INSPIRE implementation• Facilitating the discussion of issues and exchange of experiences between

INSPIRE experts in existing groups• Implementation/hosting of central infrastructure components • Capacity building, development of training material etc.• Support to eReporting

• Corrective maintenance to IRs, e.g.• Corrigenda to the MD Regulation and M&R Decision• Corrections and bug fixes in TG documents or schemas

• Evolutive maintenance of the IRs, e.g.• Taking into account requirements emerging from environmental legislation or

developments in technology / standardisation


Setting up the INSPIRE MIF

Organisation:• Main pillar: Permanent Commission Expert

Group on INSPIRE Maintenance & Implementation (MIG) 1 member (plus back-up) proposed by MS based on successful model of IOC Task Force Main task: cross-cutting issues, e.g.

architecture, registers• In addition: Ad-hoc sub-groups for specific

tasks Members from a “pool of experts” (proposed by

SDICs/LMOs) Tasks: Specific (time-limited)

maintenance/implementation tasks


Setting up the INSPIRE MIF


Role of the JRC in INSPIRE

• Overall technical coordination of the INSPIRE Directive

• Original role• Preparation of the INSPIRE IR for Metadata, Data specifications,

Network services and Interoperability• Development and upgrading of the INSPIRE geo-portal • Technical coordination with other EU and international initiatives• Work with international standardisation bodies (e.g. ISO/TC211,

CEN/TC 287 and OGC)

• In the meantime the role of has evolved …• Implementation and Development• Management and coordination of communication with SDIC and

LMO• CB assessments


Summary

• INSPIRE provides a comprehensive framework for interoperability of spatial data

• Methods and infrastructure components can be re-used for data interoperability in other sectors

• Cross-sector & cross-border spatial analysis• INSPIRE is a process• Results and benefits • Data harmonization have just been started!• Challenges …• Establishment of INSPIRE MIF• Evolution of INSPIRE (Powered by INSPIRE)


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Thank you for your attention!

Vlado Cetl

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http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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