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The information accessible on this area of the INSPIRE site has been provided by Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDICs) and Legally Mandated Organisation (LMOs) via the ongoing Call for Expression of Interest for INSPIRE development.

The information includes:

LMO Description
Organisation	Coordination Center PortalU
Projects
Umweltdatenkatalog (Catalog of Environmental Data Sources) UDK	View Project
German Environmental Information Network gein	View Project
Portal-U Portal-U	View Project
Details
Level of authority	National Territory of the Federal Republic of Germany
Formal Mandate	The Coordination Center PortalU is mandated by an administrative agreement between the German federal government and the German federal states, represented by the respective environment ministries, to develop and maintain a national metadata information system and an information portal for government-owned environmental information. The Coordination Center PortalU is controlled by the PortalU Steering Committee (LA-PortalU), which is formed by representatives of the participating federal states and the federal government.
Main Activities	The Coordination Center PortalUs main activities consist of the development and maintenance of a national metadata and informaiton infrastructure for environmental data and information. This includes the development and maintenance of an environmental information portal, the development and maintenance of a national environmental metadata catalog, the development and improvement of metadata specifications for the environmental field, the alignment of these specifications with metadata standards for geospatial data, and the integration of these (meta)information systems into the national German SDI. The Coordination Center PortalU is responsible for the German Environmental Information Portal - PortalU and the Catalog of Data Sources (UDK). PortalU provides access to the data holdings of all federal and state environment agencies as well as many other governmental organizations that hold environmental information in Germany. The UDK metadata model has evolved into a quasi-standard for the description of environmental data in Germany and other german-speaking countries (e.g. Austria). The consistent use of the UDK metadata model on a national level contributed considerably to metadata harmonization in the field. Within the German SDI, PortalU and UDK represent two of the main resources for government-held environmental data and information.
LMO URL	http://www.udk-gein.de
Comments
LMO CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact Person	Kruse Dr. Fred
Organisation	Coordination Center PortalU
Function	Executive Manager
Address	Archivstrasse 2, D-30169 Hannover
Country	GERMANY
Tel	+49.511.120-3480
Fax
PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT
Which role(s) do you foresee for the LMO in INSPIRE development
allocate experts to Drafting Teams submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams register a project to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules participate in the review process implement pilot projects to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
Area of work/experience
Geographic Domain:	National Description of geographic extent: Territory of the Federal Republic of Germany
Societal Sector	National and regional (state) government
Specific Expertise	Metadata Data Specifications Data and Service Sharing
INSPIRE Data Themes	Theme User Producer Coordinator Coordinate reference systems     Geographical grid systems     Geographical names     Administrative units     Hydrography     Protected sites     Land cover     Orthoimagery     Geology     Soil     Land use     Human health and safety     Environmental monitoring Facilities     Production and industrial facilities     Agricultural and aquaculture facilities     Area management/restriction/regulation zones & reporting units     Natural risk zones     Meteorological geographical features     Oceanographic geographical features     Sea regions     Bio-geographical regions     Habitats and biotopes     Species distribution
Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development	The KUG has more than 10 years of experience with the development and implementation of metadata specifications for the environmental field. This includes the integration of such specifications with the ISO standards for geospatial data and services (ISO 19100 series). The KUG contributed significantly to the development of an application profile for a catalog interface based on the OGC CSW-2.0 catalog interface specification. This profile will play an important role for the interoperability of geospatial and environmental data the German national SDI (GDI-DE).
Primary Business	Conceptualization, development, and maintenance of a technical information infrastructure for environmental data and information
Environmental application domains	The information systems managed by the KUG (UDK and gein) are relevant for all environmental application domains.

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