INSPIRE Directive DG ENV€¦ · requirements Policy Effectiveness: To use information on trends and implementation of policies to assess, ... reusing information from different sources

Committee on Open Data and the re-use of PSI

30 October 2019, Brussels

European CommissionDirectorate General for Environment

Unit E.4 – Compliance & Better Regulation

INSPIRE DirectiveDG ENV

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Strong support for this welcome and timelyinitiative

• Promoting datasharing and data reuse• Development of a European data space

based on a set of commonly agreed High Value Data sets

Strong need for cross-border and pan-European data in support of

• The development and evaluation of environmental policy • The Commission’s ambition for a European Green Deal

and the ecological transition towards a climate neutral and circular economy, the preservation of our nature and biodiversity and the protection of citizens’ health through a zero pollution strategy

• The development of a European data space forenvironment-related data under the new Digital Europe Programme.

Quality data and information are essential resources for policydevelopment, implementation and evaluation at all levels of government.

The Policy cycle

Integrated Assessments: To assess and compare state of, and trends in the environment and the associated pressures, impacts and socio-economic and natural driving forces that either cause or result from these changes.

Information requirements

Policy Effectiveness: To use information on trends and implementation of policies to assess, both ex-post and ex-ante, the impacts and effectiveness of the policy measures.

Policy Compliance: To check the compliance position and implementation of the policy measures at various levels of government.

Policy Implementation: To implement operational measures for mitigation and adaptation (‘response’ support)

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Spatial data

Spatial data is a catalyst for reusing information from different sources and different domains in

support of policy development and evaluation

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Directive 2007/2/EC in a nutshellDirective 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)

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Towards a European Data Infrastructure for sharing spatial data.

2007/2/EC - INSPIRE Directive

• General rules to establish an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe for • environmental policies

• Policies or activities which impact on the environment

• INSPIRE is built on the Spatial Data Infrastructuresestablished 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

Legal Framework

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INSPIRE Principles

• Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively

• Combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources and share it between many users and applications (the concept of interoperability)

• Spatial data should be collected at one level of government and shared between all levels

• Spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use

• It should be easy to discover which spatial data is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose and to know which conditions apply for its use

Legal Framework

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Roadmap & Obligations

Find

Explore[Re-]Use

Metadata (IR) Services (IR)inter-operability (IR)identify &

document data

provide accessto data

implement commonmodels & interfaces

2020

2007

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DetailedRoadmap

https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-roadmap/61

Coordination of the implementation of Directive 2007/2/EC

Data Policies (datasharing with public administrations & the general public )

Access to spatial data sets and services of the Member States by Community institutions and bodies under harmonised conditions (Regulation)

Monitoring &

Report

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(Decis

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Make spatial data availableand accessible through the EU geoportalhttps://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/

Spatial Data Scope

• 34 Spatial Data Themes

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Geospatial

Companies and company ownership

Mobility

Statistics

Meteorological

Earth Observationand environment

eReporting as priority use case for streamlining INSPIRE implementation

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The priority list of eReporting data sets

Priority List of eReporting datasets• Priority list version 2.0 (04/04/2018)

• 87 unique reporting data sets fulfilling 49 regulatory reporting obligations coming from 20 different legal acts within the acquis of DG ENV;

• Implementation of the list will stretch beyond 2020.

• A specific wiki page has been created for this action

What?

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Full list of reporting data sets to bemade available under Directive 2007/2/EC by end 2019

Cutting red tape

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• Evaluation of Directive 2007/02/EC (INSPIRE) by 2020

• Possible streamlining on

• datasharing and reuse with Open Data and PSI Directive.

• Technical provisions regarding data access (API) and metadata