Towards a Shared Environmental Information System SEIS – A European perspective Chris Steenmans

1. Towards a Shared Environmental Information System SEIS – A European perspective Chris Steenmans

2. Outline presentation • About SEIS country visits • SEIS scope and concept • Link with Inspire and GMES • Benefits and costs • Implementation • Next steps

3. EEA on the road... SF NO SE EE LV DK LT IE NL PL DE BE CZ SK AT CH LI TR ES PT IT GR (04/2007 – 11/2008)

4. Scope SEIS country visits • To exchange ideas about the proposed SEIS concept and vision • To learn from your national experiences • To discuss links with Inspire, GMES • To prepare the implementation plan

5. Scope SEIS • improve • modernise • streamline • connect environmental information systems

6. Evolution of environmental information flow Acquis 6th Env. Action Plan - Sustainable Developement Strategy Env./Sector Policy 1970s 2020 Compliance assessments Integrated assessments Indicator assessments

7. From Reporting to Online Services The current data flows Live Information Systems Member states Organisations Organisations Member states

8. SEIS principles Data and information should be • managed as close as possible to its source; • collected once and shared with others for many purposes; • readilyavailable to public authorities and enable them to easily fulfil reporting obligations; • accessible to enable end-users to make comparisons at the appropriate geographic scale and to participate meaningfully in the development and implementation of environmental policy; • available to the general public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, given possible confidentiality constraints, and at national level in the national language(s).

9. Content Infrastructure and services From EEA’s perspectiveSEIS is about... Organisation 1. Sharing (organisation) • Political commitment (legislation) • Partnership (win-win) • Networking (connecting) 2. Environmental Information (content) • Horizontal integration (data centres) • Vertical integration (local to global) • Online access - real time • For policy makers and public 3. System (infrastructure and services) • Existing ICT Infrastructure • Inspire, Reportnet, GMES,... • New e-Services (e-Government)

10. Building blocks SEIS

11. Different perceptions Inspire GMES SEIS

12. Different focus

13. COM(2008) COM(2005)565 GMES Regulation Operational Programme FP7 projects Synchronizing timetables 2005 2008 2011 2014 COM(2008)46 Legislative proposal– revised SRD Implementation SEIS NESIS HARMON Directive 2007/2/EC Inspire Transposition Implementation

14. Evaluation of demonstratedbenefits ”quick wins” 2008  • Better public access to environmental information • Better integration of information and benchmarking • Improved quality - management of data close to the source • Improved cost efficiency - collect once, use many • Better availability of information on state of the environment • Streamlining - reduced burden of fulfilling reporting obligations • Improved interoperability by using open standards      

15. Costs € • Implementation costs Inspire directive • 300 M€/yr (next 10 years - EU) • Changes in organisational and business models • ? (tbd) • Conversion towards interoperable distributed networks • ? (tbd) • Other?

16.     SEIS in practice at EEA (I) Reporting performance EEA Priority Data Flows % of data reported

17. SEIS in practice at EEA (II)

18. SEIS in practice at EEA (III)

19. EEA SEIS implementation plan 2009-13 Organisation • Support DG ENV on the preparation of the proposed legal instrument (i.e. impact assessment) (2009-2010) • SEIS Eionet country visits (2009+) • Coordinate in-situ component GMES, including contribution to GEOSS (2009-2011+) • Prepare with Group of 4 SEIS implementation plan (2009-2010) • Support the development of SEIS in the European Neighbourhood (ENP, Horizon2020) (2009-2012)

20. EEA SEIS implementation plan 2009-13 Content • European data management(2009-2013+) • European data centres air, water, land use, climate change, biodiversity Update, • Complete and maintain the reporting obligations database (ROD) + analysis (2009+) • Fill data gaps priority dataflows for core set of indicators (2009-2010) • National/European data and information management for State and Outlook Europe’s Environment (SOER2010) and EURope’s ECosystem Assessment (EURECA) (2010-2012)

21. EEA SEIS implementation plan 2009-13 Infrastructure and services • Priority thematic services (2009+): • WISE, Clearing House Climate Change, EPRTR, Airbase, CLC Land Cover, Natura2000 • Data and information management tools: • Reportnet, IMS, Inspire GEMET, SERIS (2009+) • Support Inspire implementation i.e data and service sharing with Community institutions • European GMES services (2009+) • Further enhance EEA’s Spatial Data Infrastructure with relevant geospatial data (2009+) • Inspire Annex I and II ≤1:100.000

22. Next steps • EC legislative proposal • Spring 2009 • SEIS Task Force with Member States • 2 subgroups (legal + ICT) • SEIS implementation • Priorities: • Streamlining reporting • National web-based registers • Implementation Imspire • GMES services • EEA new strategy 2009-2013 • Review Eionet structure (National Reference Centres) • EEA Management Board decision - 26 Nov 08