1. Fitness Check of environmental monitoring and reporting and INSPIRE implementation
- Progress and planning-
European Commission
Directorate General for Environment
Unit D.4 – Governance, Information & Reporting
Unit F.1 – Resource Efficiency & Economic Analysis 1

2. Three areas of work Area 1: the timing Area 2: the process
Area 3: the content
Area 2: the process
Area 1: the timing
Lower frequency of reporting
Better synchronisation
Efficiency gains through
automisation
harmonisation
centralisation
Less data requested
Ensure key performance Indicators
Less text more automised data

3. Some selected results

4. Some selected results (2)

5. Progress since Spring 2016 Commission Roadmap published:
Commission Staff Woking Document published:
Results of the public consultation available:
Stakeholder Workshops:

6. Next steps
Stakeholder consultation
(ongoing)
Fitness Check evaluation
(early 2017)
Action Plan on reporting
(2017)
4th (and last) Stakeholder Workshop on 8 December in Brussels
Results of inventory and supporting study available online
Presentation of Fitness Check evaluation and Action Plan in 2017

7. Issue of relevance for your WG
Water and nature mentioned in consultations both as good examples but also areas for improvement
Link between nature, water and marine reporting
Possible review of approach against a cross-cutting check list (e.g. indicators, less textual information, …)
Alignment of timetables under discussion
Promoting the active dissemination of implementation and compliance data at national level
Making the process more effective and efficient (also by using INSPIRE (see next slides)

8. INSPIRE evaluation
Commission Report, Staff Working Document and Summary
Evaluation criteria of efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, relevance and EU added value
Recommendations leading to follow up actions (including revision of the INSPIRE Maintainance and Implementation Work Programme)

9. REFIT Conclusions
Some frontrunners have made good progress and get benefits from their investments
Most Member States have to catch up and increase their efforts
Different pace and diversity of approaches counter-productive to INSPIRE objective of interoperability
We can do better on efficiency, effectiveness and coherence
Member State
INSPIRE compliance 1  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

10. Recommendations / actions
Close existing implementation gaps!
(Bilateral meetings with 20 MS took place and most have prepared action plan in the meantime)
Give priority to environmental spatial dataset
Improve coordination with national eGovernment (and other relevant) processes

11. Recommendations / actions
Evaluation shortcomings of national data policies
Exploring EU funding opportunities
Fitness-for-purpose review of existing INSPIRE Implementing Rules and technical guidelines (Simplification of Requirements)
Assistance to Member States in the implementation (Simplification of Use)

12. Fitness-for-purpose review
A questionnaire will be launched soon. Watch out on the INSPIRE webpage!
We want your views!

13. Can be found in reporting* guidance!
Priority: reporting
Priority setting from now to 2020
Can be found in reporting* guidance!
Examples
Location of installations or monitoring stations, protected areas, water bodies, aggregated data etc.
Permits, emissions, monitoring results, etc.
Land-use, soils, river flow, modelling etc.
Road networks, cadaster
Reporting data sets
Data sets needed to produce reported data
Data sets needed for implementation (directly or indirectly)
Basic INSPIRE data sets 1 2 3 4
* Reporting Obligations Database EEA: see for UWWT

14. Specific actions relevant for your WG
DG ENV/EEA concept paper on the future use of INSPIRE in eReporting
Working on the list of INSPIRE priority datasets (also includes datasets from your reporting obligations)
We need to work together – please get in touch with your national INSPIRE contact point

15. Thank you for your attention
Questions?
Contacts:
Steve White (Unit ENV. F1)
Joachim D'Eugenio (Unit ENV D.4)
Thank you for your attention
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