biodiversity.europa.eu BISE EEA and ETC/BD Rania Spyropoulou

THE BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR EUROPE Reporting – Data and indicators -Assessments Environmental Data centres and BISE

Phases of BISE Phase 0 (December 2009 – June 2011)   Phase 0 (December 2009 – June 2011) Strand 1) Improvement of the current version 0 - 'quick fixes'; Strand 2) Update of the concept paper and preparation of the respective Implementation Plan. Phase 1 (June 2011 – December 2012): input to the Integrated Format for Monitoring, assessment and reporting for the EU biodiversity strategy Phase 2 (2013 and beyond)

The overriding objective: to build a constant and updated knowledge base for biodiversity in Europe

BISE Policy: EU Biodiversity Action Plan

BISE Topics: SEBI indicators

BISE topics: protected areas

BISE Topics: Ecosystems

BISE data

BISE contribution to the EU knowledge base Requirements Biodiversity policy CBD strategic plan , IPBS, EU biodiversity strategy 2. Bottom up requirements Countries, citizens 3. Transparency in decision making, Enabling biodiversity reporting Implementation Governance structure and implementation plans

Several ways to do this: A clearing house for EU institutions  Objective 1 :BISE should enable the collection and dissemination of information and data from multiple sources [EU bodies, multilateral agreements, Member States, NGOs, citizen observations] Several ways to do this: A clearing house for EU institutions A reporting tool for EU member States A clearing house function amongst EU member states A reporting tool for EU citizens

Objective 2 :BISE should ensure complementarity and links to information and data relevant to the global biodiversity targets at the Pan-European level Several challenges here: How to integrate the EEA countries/ the EEA collaborating countries and the Pan –European region? portal? Should the current BISE be complemented by a Pan European entry point? Should this entry point be linked to the European Biodiversity CHM network?

Objective 3 : BISE should enhance information structuring, documentation, archiving, streamlining and sharing across relevant EU policies and among different institutional levels A governance structure amongst EU institutions is needed Linked to objective 1

Objective 4: BISE should provide information and data relevant to biodiversity assessments at different geographical levels for stakeholders at the global, EU, national, subnational, local levels Several issues here - definition of products needed at different levels - identification of existing and potential data sources - discussion on IT issues and investment needed

BISE is a node of the Shared Environmental Information System (2008 EC Communication on SEIS) Feeding into BISE + GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security The ten Environmental Data Centres   Air [EEA] Land use [ EEA] Biodiversity [ EEA] Water [ EEA] - Climate change [EEA] - Soil [JRC] - Forestry [JRC] - Waste [EUROSTAT] - Integrated product policy [EUROSTAT] - Natural resources [EUROSTAT] implementation of the INSPIRE Directive

Objective 5: BISE should improve the communication on biodiversity to and from a wider audience Several issues to be considered here: -multilinguality -thematic arrangements

The European CHM network The network comprises of the CBD –CHM focal points of countries of the Pan European region. It is meeting annually under the coordination of EEA, with the participation of the CBD Secretariat, and decides on joint activities related to the global CHM and the CBD strategic plan. The EC-CHM portal is providing a show case for the EC-CHM Portal toolkit, which is used by a number of European and African countries for their national CHMs. NEXT meeting is 17-18 November focusing on BISE and the CHM

The EEA Knowledge frame – Biodiversity data centre and BISE Biodiversity InformationSystem for Europe Analysis and synthesis Assimilation into user’s framework MONITORING Measure & record DATA Integrate & manage INFORMATION Visualise & describe ASSESSMENT Analyse & understand REPORTING Explain & communicate Air DC…. Data maintenance and data integration Biodiversity data center Indicators and statistics Data QC and acceptance Water DC Land Use DC