INSPIRE DIRECTIVE

In Europe a major recent development has been the entering in force of the INSPIRE Directive in May 2007, establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe to support Community environmental policies, and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

INSPIRE is based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the 27 Member States of the European Union. The Directive addresses 34 spatial data themes needed for environmental applications, with key components specified through technical implementing rules. This makes INSPIRE a unique example of a legislative “regional” approach.

Legislation

Directive 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) was published in the official Journal on the 25th April 2007. The INSPIRE Directive entered into force on the 15th May 2007

To ensure that the spatial data infrastructures of the Member States are compatible and usable in a Community and transboundary context, the Directive requires that common Implementing Rules (IR) are adopted in a number of specific areas (Metadata, Data Specifications, Network Services, Data and Service Sharing and Monitoring and Reporting). These IRs are adopted as Commission Decisions or Regulations, and are binding in their entirety. The Commission is assisted in the process of adopting such rules by a regulatory committee composed of representatives of the Member States and chaired by a representative of the Commission (this is known as the Comitology procedure).

Draft Commission Legislation

Editor's Choice

INSPIRE Annex II+III themes user requirements survey extended

  

INSPIRE Conference 2010
INSPIRE as a Framework for Cooperation

The INSPIRE Conference 2010 took place in Krakow, Poland, 22- 25 June 2010. The conference attracted 670 participants from over 50 countries.

The presentations made at the conference are available on the INSPIRE Conference site.

Krakow Declaration on INSPIRE approved at the Closing Session of the Conference "INSPIRE as a framework for cooperation", 23-25 June, 2010

Call for Expression of Interest for participation in development of INSPIRE data specifications for Annex II & III Data Themes launched

The Call is addressed to the INSPIRE Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDICs) and Legally Mandated Organisations (LMOs). The Commission is seeking voluntary contributions of SDICs and LMOs, asking them to propose experts (domain experts, Facilitators, Editors) for the Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) and reference materials to be taken into consideration for the data specifications.

We recommend that you carefully read the following documents before responding to this call.

SDICs and LMOs can participate by logging in and completing the required forms.

The closing date has been extended to 8th January 2010 for candidate experts.

Featured News


13-Aug-2010  Invitation to Tender for the "developement of the technical components of the INSPIRE Geo-portal at European Union level"
30-Jul-2010  INSPIRE Forum Newsletter launched
29-Jul-2010  Translations of draft regulation on download services and transformation services
29-Jul-2010  Translations of draft regulation on interoperability of spatial data sets and services available
09-Jul-2010  Krakow Declaration on INSPIRE
01-Jul-2010  INSPIRE Conference presentations - on-line
22-Jun-2010  Draft COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) amending Regulation (EU) No .../2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services published