CDDA alignment with INSPIRE Mette Lund EEA Biodiversity group MSFD Technical Group on Marine Data, 7 June 2017

The inventory of Nationally designated areas (CDDA) CDDA is an annual Eionet core data flow Geographical coverage: 39 countries The inventory is collected since 1995 The CDDA is the official source of protected area information from European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA)

CDDA reporting from 2018 onwards Motivation for a new CDDA data model and reporting approach for 2018 reporting Protected sites are among the INSPIRE Annex I themes The existing CDDA data model has redundant information and outdated reporting approaches Motivation for using the ”Linked approach” for environmental reporting To avoid double reporting To avoid maintenance of overlapping but different thematic data models Generic and re-usable approach in different data flows Current reporting obligations Type 1 Geospatial reference data Type 2 Environmental data Type 3 Textual or contextual data and information

Linked Approach and CDDA 2018 Linked Approach schema CDDA reporting obligation Type 1 Type 2 Dataset level Protected Site 1 Designation A Object level Protected Site 2 Designation B Designation C Separate datasets

Linked Approach and CDDA 2018 Type 1 data Type 2 data Link – Dataset level (file or WFS) INSPIRE Protected Sites Linked Dataset table has information about the connection between Type 1 and Type 2 parts of the CDDA reporting Designated Area table has three new INSPIRE elements: The components of the InspireID will be used to link the spatial and the tabular data Link – Record level (InspireID)

Current reporting approach in CDDA Reportnet CDR Geometry (Shapefiles) Tabular data (XML/MS Access files) Upload as package common identifier CDDA 2018 approach re-using INSPIRE Protected Sites INSPIRE model Protected Sites (GML file) Geometry and core elements Tabular data (XML/XLS files) Elements NOT included in the INSPIRE data models Reportnet CDR Upload as package common identifier CDDA Designated Area Various IDs Designated information IUCN management category Official area (ha) Major ecosystem type Various metadata fields CDDA match Geometry of site Site name Designation date Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel

Two ways of re-using INSPIRE models (general application) Alternative A via (INSPIRE compliant) file INSPIRE model Geometry and core elements GML file Tabular data (no elements identical to the INSPIRE data models) common identifier Upload as package Reportnet CDR INSPIRE model Geometry and core elements Web feature service link Tabular data (no elements identical to those of the INSPIRE data models) common identifier Alternative B via INSPIRE download service (WFS) Step 1 - Upload Current reporting approach: INSPIRE needs to be implemented by the MS in parallel Step 2 – Harvest gml file from INSPIRE web service

Future web feature service harvesting for reporting? EEA currently not ready to accept data from web services for obligatory reporting EEA Reportnet undergoes major update project ( Reportnet 2.0, 2017-2019) Reporting via web-services is legally/procedurally challenging Within CDDA ‘18 we will ask countries to provides us with WFS nodes (in parallel) if available for testing During 2018 EEA will analyse the web-service reporting together with EIONET Technical and legal challenges needs to be addressed 2020 as target to be ready for web service based reporting for agreed data flows

Next steps for CDDA reporting Consultation on draft reporting guidelines, June 2017 NRC workshop, 15-16 June 2017 Testing phase with interested countries, July-September 2017 Final reporting guidelines, October 2017 Call for 2018 data collection, December 2017 Reporting deadline, March 2018

Thank you contribution to this presenation also from Christian Ansorge EEA Data governance group

Relational data base representation of the UML model - all elements for the DesignatedArea table are listed incl the containedBy element The UML model of the Type 2 data

Current CDDA data model