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JRC – the European Commission’s

Research Based Policy Support

Organisation

ISO TC/211 Class A liaison SeminarPallanza, 6 October 2004

http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int

Research Based Policy Support

More than 25% of all EU legislation has a significant

S&T basis

• e.g. food, chemicals, environment, energy

As a Directorate General (DG) of the European

Commission, the JRC provides scientific and technical

support to Community policy making

In the last 2 years, the JRC was engaged in over

70 pieces of EU legislation

… to provide customer-driven scientific

and technical support for the conception,

development, implementation and

monitoring of EU policies …

…the JRC functions as a reference centre of

science and technology for the EU, independent of

private and national interests...

JRC’s Mission

… in implementing its mission, the JRC…

….. depends on intensive networking

with public and private institutions in

the Member States and beyond…….

Implementing the Mission

Structure of the JRC

IRMM – Geel, Belgium

- Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements

Staff: 250

IE – Petten, The Netherlands

- Institute for Energy

Staff: 180

ITU – Karlsruhe, Germany

- Institute for Transuranium elements

Staff: 250

IPSC - IHCP - IES – Ispra, Italy

- Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen

- Institute for Health and Consumer Protection

- Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Staff: 350, 250, 370

IPTS – Seville, Spain

- Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

Staff: 100

7 Institutes in 5 Member States

Total staff: ~ 2200 people

Court of Auditors

The European Parliament

The Council of Ministers

Committee of the Regions

Court of JusticeEconomic and

Social Committee

SG. RELEX ENTR ENV SANCO JRC

…. ...

IES

... ... ...

RTD

IRMMIPSC …..IPTS

…. ......

The EU Institutions

The European Commission

(the ‘College’: 20 Commissioners)

Institutional budget for 4 years FP6

EC Programme (Meuro) 760

Euratom Programme (Meuro) 290

Total JRC (Meuro) 1050

JRC Work Programme 2003-2006

Budget Breakdown (Meuro)

286

290

262 212

Food, Chemical Products and Health

Environment and Sustainability

EURATOM

Horizontal Activities

Complemented by competitive earnings (10-15%):

• funded work from other Commission services

• third party work

• participation in FP6 indirect actions

Working for the JRC

JRC Staff• Policy of attracting bright and able

scientists

• Multi-national skills and talents

• Scientific and cultural diversity

CORE STAFF 2003

518

1004

49

Officials

Temporary agents on5-year renewablecontracts

Temporary agents on3-year non-renewablecontracts

Total = 1571 staff

VISITING STAFF 2003

79

69

31

38438

39Trainees

Postgraduate grantholders

Post-doctoral grantholders

Visiting scientists

Seconded nationalexperts

Auxiliaries

Total = 694 staff

JRC Work Programme 2003-2006

Food, Chemical Products and Health (food safety & quality, food chain & consumer protection, GMOs, chemical products, alternative testing methods, biomedical technologies, health & environment)

Environment and Sustainability (air, water & soil quality, land resources, sustainability issues, climate change, ecosystem monitoring, energy technologies)

Nuclear Safety and Security (waste treatment & storage, nuclear non-proliferation, reactor safety, radiation monitoring, basic actinide research)

S&T Foresight (technology & techno-economic foresight, statistical methods for analysis of economic indicators)

Reference Materials and Measurements (reference materials & methods, certified reference materials, radionuclide metrology, neutron data measurements)

Public Security and Antifraud (antifraud technologies, cybersecurity, technological & natural emergencies, humanitarian aid)

Proposal for a

DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND

OF THE COUNCIL

establishing an infrastructure for spatial

information in the Community

INSPIRE

COM (2004) 614 23 July 2004

http://inspire.jrc.it/

Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive

- Overview -

I. General provisions

II. Metadata

III. Interoperability of spatial data sets and services

IV. Network services

V. Data-sharing and re-use

VI. Coordination and complementary measures

VII. Final provisions

This overview addresses the main issues only

• Establish an infrastructure for spatial informationin the EU to support:

– environmental policies and

– policies that affect the environment,

• Based on infrastructures of the Member States that include

– metadata, spatial data sets and services; network services; agreements on sharing, access and use; and coordination and monitoring mechanisms, processes and procedures.


I - General Provisions-

What is covered ?

• spatial data

– related to EU territory, in electronic format, public

sector data, covers themes in annex I, II and III.

– provisions for third party data - but always

subject to third party consent

• ”spatial data services” for those spatial data


I - General Provisions-

Thematic Scope

Annex I - II

Annex I

• Coordinate reference systems

• Geographical grid systems

• Geographical names

• Administrative units

• Transport networks

• Hydrography

• Protected sites

Annex II

• Identifiers of Properties

• Elevation (including terrestrial elevation, bathymetry and coastline)

• Land cover

• Cadastral parcels

• Ortho-imagery

Thematic Scope

Annex III

• Statistical units

• Buildings

• Soil

• Geology

• Land use

• Human health and safety

• Government service and

environmental monitoring facilities

• Production and industrial facilities

• Agricultural and aquaculture facilities

• Population distribution - demography

• Area management/restriction/

regulation zones & reporting

units

• Natural risk zones

• Atmospheric conditions

• Meteorological spatial features

• Sea regions

• Bio-geographical regions

• Habitats and biotopes

• Species distribution

• Oceanic spatial features

• Establishment of catalogues for spatial data

and for services

• Progressive implementation until 6 years

after entry into force of Directive

• Metadata is the “fuel” of the search engine to

the spatial information


II – Metadata -


III – Interoperability of spatial data sets and services -

• Harmonised spatial data specifications• the key to solving problems with interoperability

• adopted through comitology

• more stringent for Annex I and II than for Annex III

• earlier for Annex I than for Annex II and III

• Two years after adoption: new or updated spatial data will become interoperable

• No need to replace MS data or systems


IV - Network services -

• Upload services– allow to make spatial data accessible

– available to the public authorities

– available to interested third parties, provided that certain

conditions are met

• Network services – discovery services (free of charge);

– view services (free of charge);

– download services;

– transformation services;

– services to invoke “spatial data services”


IV - Network services -

• Network services are the window to INSPIRE

• Community Geo-portal, in addition to national access points

• Various derogations (security, justice, confidentiality, etc…)

• Services can run on top of existing systems: no need to replace them!


V - Data-sharing and re-use -

• For public authorities:– barrier-free sharing of spatial data sets and services…

– for public tasks that may have a direct or indirect impact

on the environment.

– access of institutions and bodies of the Community

• For third parties:– measures to reduce barriers for re-use to be adopted by

comitology


VI - Coordination and complementary measures -

• Coordination at Member State level: to be organised by the MS

• Coordination at EU level: by Commission with support of EEA

• Implementation of many measures supported by implementation rules adopted by Comitology

- The Process -

Bottom-up Stakeholder Involvement

– Initial preparation and establishment of structures

– Fact finding and consensus building

• Orientation and Position papers of expert groups

• Establishing the state-of-play

– Preparing the proposal -> A Framework Directive

• Scoping policy measures with expert advice

• Assessing the political and socio-economic impact

• A public review of the proposed measures

– Adoption of Commission Proposal, start of co-decision

– Co-decision and adoption of INSPIRE Directive

– Transposing INSPIRE Directive

– Implementing INSPIRE Directive

2001

2002

2003

2004

2004-6

2007-8

2009-13

Action n°2142 - ESDIISA 2.1.Protection of the European Environment

European Spatial Data Infrastructure

Action Leader: Alessandro Annoni

IES- Institute for Environment and

Sustainability

GI Institutional framework GI technical standards

Spatial Information ServicesFundamental

GI data sets

ESDI Concept

Support to the development of INSPIRE – Technical Coordination, EU Geo-Portal development, Technical guidelines,

Pilot Projects, Cross-thematic harmonisation of Spatial Data Interest Communities,..

EC Technical Reference in Geographic Information– support of EC (COGI, DGs) and MS initiatives

– active role in geo-spatial standardisation (ISO,CEN,OGC,..)

– liaising with international research GI community (AGILE, EUROSDR,.)

– training and dissemination (EC GIS workshop , www.ec-gis.org, …).

– research on GI – interoperability and spatial analysis

Support the JRC development of spatial information services– Forest Regulations, Natura2000, Image2000, Flooding, ESPON,..

General Objectives

The INSPIRE Geo-Portal is

Europe's Internet access

point for Spatial Data and

Services. From here, users

can search for spatial data,

services, and organisations

First version of the prototype

running since October 2003

European Geo-Portal

GI Services

Various providers of Geographic Information

Gazetteer

Thesauri &Translation

WFS WMS WMS WCSWFS WCatSWCatSWMS

Cascading or

aggregating

further services

Gaz

EU Geo-Portal

10th edition EC GI-GIS workshop– More than 250 participants

EC GI-GIS web portal (www.ec-gis.org)

– More than 400 registered users

– EGIP Forum used to debate about GI

– Tutorial

– Geospatial Data Fusion

Dissemination, awareness

raising and training

Consensus processes on interoperability

JRC’s role in GI standards development

ISO/TC211

CEN/TC287

JRC currently co-chair of

ISO/TC211-OGC Joint Advisory

Group

JRC (Class A liaison)

will host ISO/TC211(Ispra, October 2004)

JRC Convener of

CEN/TC287

WG 1 Spatial Data

Infrastructures

Common European Reference Grid

1st European workshop in Ispra

Proceedings available. To be discussed at the next COGI meeting

European Map projection standards

Now mandatory within EC as follow-up of JRC

workshop and Technical Report

(Map Projections for Europe, EUR 20120)

Comparison of scale errors between Lambert

Azimuthal and Albers projections

Geo-spatial standardisation5 cm/year

ITRF93

NNR-NUVEL1A Common Co-ordinate Reference System for Europe

Now mandatory within EC as follow-up of JRC workshop

(Spatial Reference Systems in Europe » EUR 19575))

Creation of pan-

European data sets

Prototype User Applications

Data Validation

Database

Modeling

and

Design

Information Systems development

GIS and NATURA 2000

Policies: Bird Directive and Habitat Directive

From data to information dissemination

IMAGE 2000 Mosaic and Dissemination Service

Methodologies for automatic generation of European spatial layers– River network extraction from DEMs and Image2000

– Waterline delineation for coast and lakes on Image2000

– Publications• Carving and adaptive drainage enforcement of grid DEMs. Water Resources Research

• Morphological automatic extraction of European coastline from Landsat ETM+ images

Legend

•AMS_Image200_RIVER

•1

•DEM_RIVER_CCM•1

•GISCO_RIVER•1

Automatic generation of spatial layers

Integration with Competitive Activities

• Competitive activities are needed

– as Pilot and TestBeds for ESDI development

• importance of lesson learnt

– to provide input to ESDI Technical Guidelines

– to integrate JRC work in the ERA

• importance to share development, strengthen synergies

– to acquire / complement existing knowledge

• including understanding of differences in European countries

– to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed solutions

• standards and spatial services in practice

ORCHESTRA - Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management

– to improve efficiency in dealing with risks by developing a standard-based and open architecture for risk management.

SAFIR - Speech Automatic Friendly Interface Research to any devices and transactions

– will create an innovative paradigm combining Voice & Graphics

– To develop a European Geographic Information Strategy

GINIE - Geographic Information Network In Europe

– To develop a European Geographic Information Strategy

NATURE-GIS

– A European thematic network for Protected Areas/Nature Preservation and GI

Competitive activities

More information

• INSPIRE http://inspire.jrc.it

– INSPIRE Geo-Portal http://eu-geoportal.jrc.it/

• EC GIS http://www.ec-gis.org

• JRC projects decription http://projects.jrc.cec.eu.int/

• ESDI action results http://gi-gis.jrc.it

http://inspire.jrc.it/

http://eu-geoportal.jrc.it/

http://www.ec-gis.org/

http://projects.jrc.cec.eu.int/

http://gi-gis.jrc.it/

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