1 INSPIRE Data Specifications Area management / restriction / regulation zones and reporting units (Draft data specification ver.2.0) INSPIRE Thematic Working Group AM Darja Lihteneger INSPIRE Conference 2011, Edinburgh, 30 June 2011

2 INSPIRE Conference INSPIRE TWG AM 10 members Nominated by SDICs or LMOs from: –Italy –Netherlands –Norway –Poland –Turkey –United Kingdom –And European or international organisations: EEA – European Environment Agency EUCC - Coastal & Marine Union

3 INSPIRE Conference INSPIRE definition of AM Areas managed, regulated or used for reporting at international, European, national, regional and local levels. Includes dumping sites, restricted areas around drinking water sources, nitrate-vulnerable zones, regulated fairways at sea or large inland waters, areas for the dumping of waste, noise restriction zones, prospecting and mining permit areas, river basin districts, relevant reporting units and coastal zone management areas.

4 INSPIRE Conference Approach Scope related to diverse environmental issues: –air, water, soil/land and biotic (living) components Areas defined by legislation active at different levels: –international, European, national, sub-national Broad to cover diverse possibilities = GENERIC APPROACH Keep consistent (individual cases vs. generic approach), simple, practical and feasible, robust!

5 INSPIRE Conference Application schemas in AM The theme has been split into two application schemas: Area Management, Restriction and Regulation Zones Reporting Units

6 INSPIRE Conference Area management / restriction / regulation zones Zones - established in accordance with specific legislative requirements to deliver the environmental aims, like: Protect and improve environmental quality, natural resources Protect and control risk from natural and man-made hazards Protect plant, animal and human health Control development/spatial planning

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8 8 AMRRZ application schema core spatial object type competent authority zone type controlled activity management information reference to the legislation

9 INSPIRE Conference Example – specialised zone types High level zone types should address the main domain areas Specialised zone types are important to distinguish specific cases (types) of such zones

10 INSPIRE Conference Some of the requirements Consistency between spatial data sets: To ensure that data can be seamlessly integrated into applications the geometries of spatial objects coincident to a boundary (e.g. administrative boundary: state, country or management boundary: catchment area) shall be consistent Where the geometry of the spatial object is derived from another spatial object the geometries of the two objects shall be consistent Geometry representation: The geometry shall be explicitly defined, and references to geometries of other spatial object types are not allowed.

11 INSPIRE Conference Reporting units Reporting units are spatial objects that provide the spatial extent for related reporting information Therefore, reporting units can be almost any spatial object from an INSPIRE Annex Theme Examples: Administrative units Statistical units Bio-geographical regions River basin districts Air quality monitoring stations Physical Waters (river, lake, groundwater)

12 INSPIRE Conference RU application schema Reporting units Reporting authority Reporting obligation (including reference to legislation) Reporting information (identifier for any reporting information that is linked to the reporting unit)

13 INSPIRE Conference Reference to legislation Proposed as common type in updated GCM

14 INSPIRE Conference Open issues in AM Cross-theme issue: the same legally based restriction might be used in different INSPIRE themes (LU, NZ, SO, etc) Interrelationships with INSPIRE themes (some examples): PS: as conservation purpose / protection and restriction purpose in AM HY: WFD reporting application schema (to stay in HY as specifically defined spatial object types for the reporting under WFD) Managed areas could be defined in almost any other theme Complex thematic topic could be covered by different INSPIRE themes - AM being one of them Initial set of zones: more input into a code list of high-level zones – this should be part of the IR Detailed information related to controlled activities: explicitly defined in the zones dataset or in supporting resources?

15 INSPIRE progress 15 Thank you! Inspire Thematic Working Group “Area management” Darja Lihteneger