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IACS & SDIsSynergies and Benefits

Baveno, October 15, 2013

Katalin TÓTH

Objectives of this presentation

Walk through some elements of EU legislation and policy actions to see

• CAP and Environmental policies of the EU share common aspects

• IACS can benefit from SDIs and INSPIRE

• The potential and framework for further convergence

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CAP is spatialCAP is spatial

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Council regulation 73/2009

• Preamble (12)

• Particular situation of outermost regions

• Montainous terrain

• Art. 15 and 17

• Identification system for agricultural parcels (on the basis of maps, land registers, other

cartographic documents)

• Computerised geographical information system techniques preferably with aerial/spatial

orthoimagery

• Equivalent accuracy of 1:10 000 scale

• Art. 19

• Graphics indicating the area and position of olive trees

• Art. 20

• Usage of Remote Sensing and GNSS in verifying eligibility

• Art. 124

• Utilised agricultural area (arable land, permanent grassland, permanent crops, kitchen gardens)

• Minimum size of eligible area4

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Commission regulation 1122/2009

• Preamble (7) (46) (48) (77)

• Use of GIS with data in necessary level of details

• Define the acceptable width of certain features of the field

• Lay down the conditions of using remote sensing

• Art. 2 and 6

• Agricultural parcel: continuous area of land … one single crop group

• Use: area in terms of crop types or ground cover

• Reference parcel: geographically delimited area retaining unique identification (cadastral parcel

or production block)

• National coordinate reference system

• Correct quantification of eligible area

• Art. 12

• Particulars of agricultural parcels in the application: identification, area, location, use, irrigation

• Art. 34

• Details of area determination (tolerance of measurements, taking into account the landscape

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CAP is environmentalCAP is environmental

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Council regulation 73/2009

• Preamble (9)

• Water management and protecting biodiversity

• Preamble (12)

• Climat constraints

• Preamble (30)

• Afforestation under national schemes

• Art. 5 (Statutory management requirements based on Annex II)• protection of wild birds, of ground waters, waters, natural habitats of flora and fauna

• Art. 6 (Good agricultural and environmental conditions specified by MS/Regions based on Annex III)• soil erosion, organic matter and structure

• min. level of maintenace comprising landscape features

• maintenance/protection of permanent pasture

• Protection and management of water (buffer strips, irrigation)

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Environment for IACSEnvironment for IACS

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Integrated Administration and Control System

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?• How is it now?

Spaitial enough?

•Intrinsic spatial component with defined information content (LPIS)•Data from aid applications•MS may include information system for olive calculation•Does not sufficiently support some spatial aspects (montainous terrain, slopes)

Environmental

enough?

•MS shall establish a system guaranteeing an effective control of cross complience•Details not regulated, limited information content (landscape features)

?• How to develop further?

Collect new or choise existing?

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Collect new

Get exactly what is needed

- According to own specifications- no trouble with deployment of data

Might be expensive:

- technology demanding- (other) data/service dependent- time consuming

Updates might be complicated

no expertise in following the life cycle and the related legal/buisness proceses

Might be not compliant with regulation (best practices)

Ban for collecting data what is available in public administration

Reuse existing

Current data from competent authorities

Might be challangig

- to find what is neded- to face information fragmentation- understand usability of data

Getting data might be complicated

- restrictions in access and use- royalties- liabilities

Data does not fit together

- semantic inconsistency- inconsistent spatial representation- incompatible encodings (formats)

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Spatial Data Infrastructures

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What? Why? Which?

SDIs encapsulate policies, institutional and legal arrangements, technologies, and data that enable sharing and effective usage of geographic information

Expected output: interoperability•better accessibility•harmonisation of semantics and spatial representations•consistent data regardless of source

Can be subdivided based on geographic and /or thematic scope•Global, national, regional , local•Environment, transport, etc.

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INSPIRE• Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE) Directive 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 built on the SDIs established and operated by the Member States

• Even though there is no obligation for new data collection, it is a strong trigger for the MS to develop national SDIS and share data in interoperable way and according pre-defined conditions

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Structure and organisation• Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE): legal framework and general provisions

• Commission Regulations (Implementing Rules, IR): mandatory technical requirements1. Metadata 2. Interoperability of spatial data sets and services3. Services (discovery, view, download, transformation, invoke)4. Data and Service sharing (policy)5. Monitoring & reporting

• Guidelines for voluntary implementation (for each component)

• Operational elements1. Registers/registries2. Geoportal

• Organisational measures1. INSPIRE Committe2. Expert groups (drafting teams, thematic working groups, maintenace and

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How to benefit from INSPIRE?

How to benefit from INSPIRE?

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Easier data discovery

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Standardized discovery services & metadata (IR on Network Services

& Metadata)

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Comprehensive data inventoryMonitoring & Reporting IR

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/182

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Rules for data sharing

• IR on Data and Service Sharing:conditions of access to spatial data sets and services from Member States by the institutions and bodies of the Community

• Non binding guidelines and documents: model contracts, framework agreements and examples of good practice related to sharing within and between Member States


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Easier data access• Standardized view, download and transformation (IR on Network

Services)

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Easier data use

• Facilitate data use and interoperability by adopting common cross-domain models to exchange data (IR on Data Interoperability)

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Collaboration

• What has already been done?

• Shared technical solutions (standard and model driven approach, notation, data encoding, conformance testing,)

• Collaboration in overlapping themes (specification development in cadastral parcels, orthoimagery, land cover, land use, agricultural facilities)

• Potential for future

• Extending INSPIRE core models according to the requirements of IACS • Combining data from IACS and INSPIRE in GIS analysis• Make use of operational components for

• Registers for promoting interoperability (Feature concept dictionary, glossary, code lists)

• Sharing/publishing information (code lists, geoportal)• Reuse the element of the INSPIRE Generic Conceptual Framework for

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Thematic fields addressed by INSPIRE

Annex I1. Coordinate reference

systems

2. Geographical grid systems

3. Geographical names

4. Administrative units

5. Addresses

6. Cadastral parcels

7. Transport networks

8. Hydrography

9. Protected sites

Annex II1. Elevation2. Land cover3. Ortho-imagery4. Geology

Annex III

1. Statistical units

2. Buildings

3. Soil

4. Land use

5. Human health and safety

6. Utility and governmental services

7. Environmental monitoring facilities

8. Production and industrial facilities

9. Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

10.Population distribution –demography

11. Area management/ restriction/regulation zones & reporting units

12. Natural risk zones

13. Atmospheric conditions

14. Meteorological geographical features

15. Oceanographic geographical features

16. Sea regions

17. Bio-geographical regions

18. Habitats and biotopes

19. Species distribution

20. Energy Resources

21. Mineral resources

Areas of “quick win” for IACSPotentially beneficiary themes

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What When

Metadata available for Annex I+II spatial data

Discovery and view services (Initial Operating Capabilities - IOC)

Discovery and View Services operational

Download and Transformation Services IOC

Download and Transformation Services operational

Access to (newly collected / all) Annex I spatial data sets under harmonized conditions

Metadata available for Annex III spatial data

Access to (newly collected / all) Annex II+III spatial data sets under harmonized conditions

Dec 2010

May 2011

Nov 2011

June 2012

end 2012

end 2012 / 2017

Dec 2013

around Oct 2015 / 2020


INSPIRE Roadmap

Download services roadmap

Diagram by Ian James, Ordnance Survey

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Framework for synergies: e-Government

Is it relevant?

• Practice of the Member States

• electronic systems for submitting aid applications and/or locating parcels

• geoportals for sharing information connected to location

• ideally these initiatives are part of national eGovernmant strategies

• European Interoperability

Framework (EIF) is a set of recommendations which specify how Administrations, Businesses and Citizens communicate with each other within the EU and across Member States borders

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The ISA programme• Interoperability Solutions for European

Public Administrations

• Contributes to the e-Government Action Plan 2011-2015 and the Digital Agenda for Europe of Europe 2020 by supporting multi-sector interoperable cross-border e-services and resources to help share and reuse them

• Creates a framework that allows efficient and effective electronic cross-border public services for the benefit of citizens and business (interoperable electronic public services).

• Two relevant initiatives:• Action 1.17 – ARe3NA

• Action 2.13 – EULF27

ISA Action 1.17

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Interoperability

Openness Reuse Collaboration

… sharing reusable components for INSPIRE implementation and interoperability in cross-border/cross-sector contexts.

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Focus of ARe3NA

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Input for components not sufficiently addressed so far:

• Registers/registiries• Data sharing - GeoRM

European Union Location Framework

• Action 2.13 is a strategic framework of standards, case studies, guidelines and actions to • realise the potential of location information in Europe,• improve the way how location information is used in MS e-

Government services, • achieve a more aligned approach in policy areas,• establish interoperability and re-use of data, and services, based on

INSPIRE. • Focus areas:

• Policy and strategy alignement• E-Government integration (through best practices)• Standardisation and interoperability (ICT and GI)

• Envisaged pilots• Policies on transport, marine, agriculture• Results may influence INSPIRE maintenace

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Policy and Strategy Alignment:

Consistent EU and Member States policy and legislative approach

Cost Benefit Focus:

Building compelling impact assessments and business cases

e-Government Integration:

Location becomes a key enabler in e-Government systems

Standardization and Interoperability:

Guidance on standards and technologies for interoperability and re-use

Committed Partnerships:

Fostering a highly collaborative community to share and adopt best practices

EULF Strategic Vision V0

• Sets the strategic direction of what the EULF will achieve in the next few years.

• Identifies the relevant stakeholders within ISA, INSPIRE, other EU institutions, Member States, Interest Groups and Communities, and associated projects.

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http://ec.europa.eu/isa/actions/documents/isa-2.13_eulf-strategic-vision-lite-v0-3_final_en.pdf

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EULF Approach

EULF Study EULF Study Extension? EULF Implementation?

Focus Areas EULF Study Focus Areas EULF Focus Areas for possible future analysis and action

Policy Domains

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018…

Supporting additional policy domains?

Deliverables

Transport and Marine(tbc) Pilots

Summary1.Spatial infromation is increacingly used

2.There is a natural demand for re-using

spatial information which has triggered the

establishemnts of SDIs

3.Sectorial SDIs are converging and being

integrated with mainstream interoperability

solutions for eGovernment

4.IACS is itegral part of Memeber States’

eGovernment services

5.Environement has been the pioneering

European policy area for SDI development

6.IACS can benefit for existing (environement

focused) SDIs and may benefit even more …

…when the relevant European initiatives in the pipeline are developing in the „right” direction

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…and conclusion

Influence

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https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eulf/description

http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/groups/228519/european-union-location-framework-the-study/

https://twitter.com/EULocation#EULF

https://plus.google.com/100280377126827598572/posts

http://ec.europa.eu/isa/actions/02-interoperability-architecture/2-13action_en.htm

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/are3na/description

http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/groups/120868/a-reusable-inspire-reference-platform/

http://ec.europa.eu/isa/actions/01-trusted-information-exchange/1-17action_en.htm

#ARe3NA

INSPIRE Maintenace and Implementation Framework and Groups:http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/5160

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Thank you!

The author thankfully acknowledges the contribution of the colleagues from H6 - Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit

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