Sharing of spatial data sets and services related to INSPIRE

Darja Lihteneger, Sven Schade, Stefan Jensen; European Environment Agency INSPIRE Conference 2013, 24.06.2013

Workshop: Data and service sharing with INSPIRE - European and national perspectives

Update on 24.06.2013

Outline

• Introduction and purpose of the presentation

• Legislative basis

• INSPIRE country reports 2013 – general numbers

• Data sharing arrangements between public

authorities inside the countries

• Data sharing arrangements between public

authorities and Community institutions and bodies

• Barriers to the sharing and actions taken to

overcome them

• Draft ideas for future work

Introduction and purpose

• Purpose of the presentation is to: • understand the current practices in spatial data and

service sharing in the countries

• identify frequent barriers and obstacles

• reflect on measures and trends

• draft ideas for future work

• and NOT TO evaluate what is good or bad!

• Coordinating activities related to the implementation of INSPIRE Directive and Implementing Rules on data and service sharing and monitoring and reporting

• Participation in INSPIRE Coordination Team

Legislative basis - overview

Public Sector

Business

INSPIRE (National SDI)

EU level Member States / Countries level

INSPIRE Directive

Implementing Rule 268/2010 on access to spatial data sets and services

Measures for the sharing of spatial data sets and services, adopted by Member States. Might include: - legislation - sharing arrangements - data policies

Users within the

country

Community

institutions and bodies

Guidelines on IR on access to spatial data sets and services

Good practice in data and service sharing

Legislative basis: INSPIRE Directive, Art. 17

• Member States shall adopt measures for the sharing of spatial data sets and services between its public authorities (gain access, exchange and use)

• The arrangements shall be open to: • Public authorities of other Member States • Institutions and bodies of the Community • Bodies established under international agreements (on

reciprocal and equivalent basis)

• Derogation: may limit sharing when this would compromise: the course of justice, public security, national defence or international relations

• For the purposes of public tasks that may have an impact on the environment!

Legislative basis: Implementing Rule (268/2010), based on INSPIRE Art. 17(8)

• Access to spatial data sets and services of the Member States by Community institutions and bodies

• Provided reasons for any limitation of sharing • Harmonised conditions:

• Using terminology of INSPIRE Directive • Allowed access to the contractors acting on behalf of C.i.&b. • Conditions applicable to the C.i.&b. (in compliance with IR

268/2010) shall be expressed in metadata (Conditions applying to access and use) of spatial data sets and services

• Transparency of other information: for evaluation and use, mechanisms for collecting, processing, quality control, etc.

• Response time to provide access: within 20 days, unless otherwise agreed

• Transitional provisions: 18 months ( 2011); 3 years (existing arr. 2013)

INSPIRE country reports: information on data and service sharing

• INSPIRE country reports: based on INSPIRE Directive Art.(21) & Implementing Rule on monitoring and reporting (2009/442/EC)> every three years Member States shall send to the Commission a report

• INSPIRE country reports 2013 (until mid June 2013)

Number of countries

Provided reports

Provided reports

in % EU27 countries 27 21 78

EFTA countries 4 2 50

Candidate countries 1 0 0

Sum 32 23 72

• Most common sharing practices and approaches: • Agreements (general between levels of administration or

institutions, bi-/multi-lateral between institutions) • Legislation to facilitate access and sharing of data and

services, addressing also free of charge, open data and technical systems supporting sharing

• Licencing frameworks

• Combined approaches are used in practice:

Data sharing arrangements between public authorities inside the countries - 1

Survey basis: 23 replies

Sharing approach No. of answers

Agreements 19

Legislation 11

Licencing frameworks 5

Data sharing arrangements between public authorities inside the countries - 2

19

11 5

Number of answers Agreements

Legislation

Licencingframeworks

Belgium Czech Republic

Denmark Finland France

Germany Greece Latvia

Lithuania Luxembourg

Spain

Austria Belgium Bulgaria

Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France

Germany Iceland Latvia

Lithuania Norway Poland

Romania Slovakia Slovenia

Spain Sweden

United Kingdom

Greece Latvia

Netherlands Sweden

United Kingdom

Survey basis: replies from 23 countries

Free of charge access and sharing inside the countries – some examples

• Between public authorities at different levels of public administration (national, regional, local):

• Luxembourg, Iceland, Denmark, Latvia

• For public services: • France: for public services and tasks which are not of industrial

nature nor business-oriented • Spain: NRGE: non-commercial use accepting the licence conditions • Czech Republic, Slovakia: tasks related to the environment • Lithuania: within laws restrictions

• For specific areas: • Academic (France, Netherlands) • Data sets and services which are elements of INSPIRE (Poland)

• For all users: • Specific systems, services and spatial data sets

• Open Data: • Germany (at federal level); Finland (based on gov. decision) • Netherlands: certain amount of data sets

Sharing arrangements between countries public auth. and Community institutions and bodies

• C.i.&b. can have access within the same conditions as public authorities within the countries:

• Through sharing arrangements • Licensing schemas and frameworks • Within the conditions for access and use (legislation, costs,

purpose, …)

• No clear overview about the existing sharing arrangements between country’s public authorities and C.i&b:

• 7 replies: no information on such sharing arrangements • others: no replies at all

Survey basis: replies from 22 countries

Awareness of the sharing arrangements between the national and European level

Survey basis: replies from 22 countries

Individual agreements;

1

European projects; 7

Reporting obligations; 2

European organisations

and associations;

6

EEA, Eionet; 5

Access to INSPIRE data and services;

3

Number of answers

• Technical: • data not included in SDI • inadequate data (quality, metadata, re-use, interoperability) • lack of software, services, other technical means • lack of standardisation

• Legal: • legislative basis • diverse or complex licencing models or sharing approaches • restrictions on use, copyright, privacy protection

• Economic, financial: • lack of financial resources • pricing, requests for revenue, investments needed for sharing • added value is not visible

• Organisational, cooperation: • lack of cooperation, awareness, resistance to share data

• Human, knowledge and expertise

Barriers to the data and service sharing identified in the countries - 1

Barriers to the data and service sharing identified in the countries - 2

No specific barriers

1%

Technical 31%

Legal 23%

Economic, financial

21%

Organisational, cooperation

12%

Human, knowledge

12% Summarised types of barriers No. No specific barriers 1

Technical 26

Legal 20

Economic, financial 18 Organisational, cooperation 10

Human, knowledge 10

Summarised types of identified barriers

in the countries

Survey basis: replies from 21 countries

Frequent actions taken by the countries to overcome the barriers for sharing

• Technical: • development and sharing the tools • guidelines, standards • pilot projects for testing specific issues and solutions • specific investigation: digital rights management, access control • emphasising the role of geo-portal

• Legal: • changes in the legislation or in licensing schemas, agreements • trend toward Open Data • easier access to reference data or common databases of sp.data

• Economic, financial: • providing financial resources • solutions for sharing productions costs • supporting sharing free of charge

• Organisational, cooperation: • improved cooperation and communication,

awareness

Survey basis: replies from 14 countries

• Facilitating the needs into European projects and programmes to test and tackle technical issues related to the interoperability

• Background: high participation in European projects, organisations and associations & 31% of technical barriers

• Sharing good practices and examples to build the knowledge base of legal solutions

• Background: 23% of barriers related to legislation, licensing schemas, sharing arrangements, restrictions on use, privacy

• Improving communication and added value • Improved coordination with environmental communities • Demonstrate added value of INSPIRE geo-portal

(European) and national SDIs

Draft ideas for future work

Thank you

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Update 24.06.2013

Based on the presentation on “Open and free INSPIRE-relevant Spatial Data in Germany, Removing administrative obstacles” presented at the same workshop “Data and service sharing with INSPIRE - European and national perspectives”, the following slides are updated: • Slide 8:

• In the table: Sharing approaches – Legislation becomes 11 • Slide 9:

• In the graph: sharing approaches - Legislation becomes 11 and “Germany” is added to the list of related countries

• Slide 10: • Information about Germany is added under topic “Open

Data” as following: “Germany (at federal level)”;