Stefan Jensen - head - SEIS and SDI group EEA and EIONET – environmental aspects, issues and benefits in contributing to Annex II/III data specifications Stefan Jensen - head - SEIS and SDI group

Items covered General benefits EEA experiences in data specification for reporting data Previous, current and future (indicative) EEA engagement in INSPIRE data specifications Some issues identified so far / general comments Overview of participants involvement

General benefits Strenghten the environmental aspects in the INSPIRE data specifications Support EEA use cases Improving the Spatial data infrastructure on European level / between EU institutions Implementing SEIS Bridging between Members State and European needs Strenghten standardisation Prepare for data harmonsisation through common models and code lists Allowing for SEIS/INSPIRE networked services at a later stage

Experiences with data specifications Building data models for reporting WISE (WFD, river basin management plans, bathing water ...) AIR (CAFE process and follow-up) Nature (Habitats, Article 17 ...) .... Other useful experiences contributing to the INSPIRE discussion Key input to the O&M (object and measurement) group newly established

Observation modelled in CAFE (initial slide by UBA Vienna) O3 Hourly mean Zöbelboden 47.83, 14.44 Feature Property featureOfInterest observedProperty Observation procedure result 2010-03-01T01:00, 40.87 2010-03-01T02:00, 50.27 Horiba APNA 360 Rural DetectionLimit: 0.1 Process Values

Use cases EEA presented 16 European level use cases, related to: the Environmental Action Program, the implementation of Community environmental policies, the monitoring and review of Community environmental policies Focus mainly on themes relevant to EEA related data centres Some already described in Data specifications ver.1, others partially

EEA high level and detailed use cases - submitted late 2010 Ambient air quality Air pollutant emissions Climate change – Global and European temperature Land monitoring – land take Land take by transport Fragmentation of land and forest Implementation of the Marine Strategy Directive Status of fish stocks Aquaculture production Regional accessabilitry of markets and cohesion Urban Environment – integrated monitoring Drinking water quality Water accounts Nutrients in transitional, coastal marine waters In detail: Land accounts, Ambient air quality assessment

EEA use cases – JRC mapping of UC linkage to the INSPIRE themes…

General comments on current status (v1.9) Overall huge amount of material available Many environmental use cases covered but not always fully modelled General and (for environmental purposes) very detailed models are presented Many environmental themes go across dataspecs and are therefore difficult to address in a common way