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Development of NSDIs in Western Balkan countries in accordance with INSPIRE

Development of NSDIs in Western Balkan countries in accordance with INSPIRE. Vlado Cetl, Katalin Tóth and Paul Smits. European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit www.jrc.ec.europa.eu.

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Development of NSDIs in Western Balkan countries in accordance with INSPIRE

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  1. Development of NSDIs in Western Balkan countries in accordance with INSPIRE • Vlado Cetl, Katalin Tóth and Paul Smits European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit www.jrc.ec.europa.eu Serving societyStimulating innovationSupporting legislation

  2. Outline • INSPIRE Overview • INSPIRE Roadmap • INSPIRE/NSDI in WB countries • INSPIRATION • Conclusion

  3. What is INSPIRE? “Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community”

  4. INSPIRE • INSPIRE 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. • INSPIRE is based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States • INSPIRE is a distributed infrastructure • INSPIRE does not require collection of new spatial data • INSPIRE does not affect existing Intellectual Property Rights

  5. 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 in a nutshell

  6. http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/44 Implementation Roadmap

  7. INSPIRE in WB countries • Acceding countries • Croatia (HR) (Member State as of 1st of July 2013) • Candidate countries • The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (MK) • Montenegro (ME) • Serbia (RS) • Potential candidates • Albania (AL) • Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA) • Kosovo (XK)* *Whenever Kosovo is mentioned in this presentation, this designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence

  8. INSPIRE in WB countries • Different stages of EU integration but all countries see membership as their main political and development objective • INSPIRE is (together with all EU acquis) part of the negotiation process towards EU • INSPIRE Directive requires actions • NSDI establishment in all WB countries is under the responsibility of NMCAs • Cooperation among NMCAs as a driver for the NSDI initiatives in the WB region

  9. INSPIRE in WB countries

  10. INSPIRE in WB countries

  11. INSPIRE in WB countries

  12. INSPIRE in WB countries

  13. INSPIRE in WB countries

  14. INSPIRE in WB countries

  15. Project INSPIRATION • Multicountryproject funded by the European Union (IPA) • Implementation duration from 01/01/2012 till 31/12/2013 • Support the development of a sustainable SDI towards INSPIRE • Activities: • Policy, institutional and legislative framework analyses • Capacity building and knowledge transfer • Awareness raising and communication • More info on http://www.inspiration-westernbalkans.eu

  16. Conclusion

  17. Conclusion • Transposition of EU acquis (i.e. INSPIRE Directive) into the national legislative is one of the main priorities • NMCAs in region have been formally or de facto recognized as main drivers of NSDI development • Regional cooperation • NSDI implementation is ongoing … • Geoportals as a main blocks • INSPIRATION (IMPULSE) • Challenges … • EC support (MIF)

  18. Vlado Cetl vlado.cetl@jrc.ec.europa.eu http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ Thank you for your attention!

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