Country Visit Norway 13-14.11.08 Towards a Shared Environmental Information System SEIS – A European perspective Chris Steenmans

Country Visit Norway 13-14.11.08Country Visit Norway 13-14.11.08

Towards a Shared Environmental Information SystemTowards a Shared Environmental Information System

SEIS – A European perspectiveSEIS – A European perspective

Chris SteenmansChris Steenmans


Outline presentationOutline presentation

• About SEIS country visits• SEIS scope and concept• Link with Inspire and GMES • Benefits and costs• Implementation• Next steps


EEA on the road... EEA on the road...

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(04/2007 – 11/2008)(04/2007 – 11/2008)

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Scope SEIS country visitsScope SEIS country visits

• To exchange ideas about the proposed SEIS concept and vision

• To learn from your national experiences

• To discuss links with Inspire, GMES• To prepare the implementation plan


Scope SEISScope SEIS

improve modernise streamline connect

environmentalinformationsystems


AcquisEnv./Sector

Policy

6th Env.Action Plan -Sustainable

DevelopementStrategy

1970s 2020

Complianceassessments

Indicatorassessments

Integratedassessments

Evolution of environmental Evolution of environmental information flowinformation flow


Live Information SystemsThe current data flows

Member states Organisations Member states Organisations

MS

MS

MS

MS

MS

EEA

OECD

UNEP

Data reporting

Data reporting

Data reporting

Data reporting

Data reporting

MS

MS

MS

MS

MS

EEA

OECD

UNEP

From Reporting to Online ServicesFrom Reporting to Online Services


SEIS principlesSEIS principlesData and information should be

• managed as close as possible to its source;

• collected once and shared with others for many purposes;

• readily available to public authorities and enable them to easily fulfil reporting obligations;

• accessible to enable end-users to make comparisons at the appropriate geographic scale and to participate meaningfully in the development and implementation of environmental policy;

• available to the general public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, given possible confidentiality constraints, and at national level in the national language(s).


1. SSharing (organisation)• Political commitment (legislation) • Partnership (win-win)• Networking (connecting)

2. EEnvironmental IInformation (content)• Horizontal integration (data centres)• Vertical integration (local to global)• Online access - real time• For policy makers and public

3. SSystem (infrastructure and services)• Existing ICT Infrastructure• Inspire, Reportnet, GMES,...• New e-Services (e-Government)

From EEA’s perspectiveFrom EEA’s perspectiveSEIS is about...SEIS is about...


Building blocks SEISBuilding blocks SEIS


Different perceptionsDifferent perceptions

GMESInspire

SEIS


Different focusDifferent focus

INSPIREINSPIRE GMESGMES SEISSEIS

Content Content ContentInfra

structureInfra

structureInfra

structure

Services Services Services

Directive Regulation? Regulation?

Business Business Business


SEIS

COM(2008)46 Legislative proposal– revised SRD Implementation

Synchronizing timetablesSynchronizing timetables

NESIS

HARMON

Transposition

Implementation

Directive 2007/2/EC

Insp

ire

2005 2008 2011 2014

FP7 projects

Operational ProgrammeRegulation

COM(2008)

GM

ES COM(2005)565


Evaluation of demonstratedEvaluation of demonstratedbenefits ”quick wins” 2008benefits ”quick wins” 2008

• Better public access to environmental information

• Better integration of information and benchmarking

• Improved quality - management of data close to the source

• Improved cost efficiency - collect once, use many

• Better availability of information on state of the environment

• Streamlining - reduced burden of fulfilling reporting obligations

• Improved interoperability by using open standards


CostsCosts

1. Implementation costs Inspire directive 300 M€/yr (next 10 years - EU)

2. Changes in organisational and business models ? (tbd)

3. Conversion towards interoperable distributed networks ? (tbd)

4. Other?


Reporting performance EEA Priority Data FlowsReporting performance EEA Priority Data Flows

SEIS in practice at EEA (I)SEIS in practice at EEA (I)

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

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90

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

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SEIS in practice at EEA (II)SEIS in practice at EEA (II)


SEIS in practice at EEA (III)SEIS in practice at EEA (III)


Organisation Organisation

• Support DG ENV on the preparation of the proposed legal instrument (i.e. impact assessment) (2009-2010)

• SEIS Eionet country visits (2009+)

• Coordinate in-situ component GMES, including contribution to GEOSS (2009-2011+)

• Prepare with Group of 4 SEIS implementation plan (2009-2010)

• Support the development of SEIS in the European Neighbourhood (ENP, Horizon2020) (2009-2012)

EEA SEIS implementation plan 2009-13EEA SEIS implementation plan 2009-13


ContentContent• European data management(2009-2013+)

European data centres air, water, land use, climate change, biodiversity Update,

• Complete and maintain the reporting obligations database (ROD) + analysis (2009+)

• Fill data gaps priority dataflows for core set of indicators (2009-2010)

• National/European data and information management for State and Outlook Europe’s Environment (SOER2010) and EURope’s ECosystem Assessment (EURECA) (2010-2012)



Infrastructure and servicesInfrastructure and services

• Priority thematic services (2009+): WISE, Clearing House Climate Change, EPRTR,

Airbase, CLC Land Cover, Natura2000

• Data and information management tools: Reportnet, IMS, Inspire GEMET, SERIS (2009+)

• Support Inspire implementation i.e data and service sharing with Community institutions

• European GMES services (2009+)• Further enhance EEA’s Spatial Data

Infrastructure with relevant geospatial data (2009+) Inspire Annex I and II ≤1:100.000



Next stepsNext steps

• EC legislative proposal Spring 2009 SEIS Task Force with Member States

2 subgroups (legal + ICT)

• SEIS implementation Priorities:

Streamlining reporting National web-based registers Implementation Imspire GMES services

• EEA new strategy 2009-2013 Review Eionet structure (National Reference Centres) EEA Management Board decision - 26 Nov 08

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Country Visit Norway 13-14.11.08 Towards a Shared Environmental Information System SEIS – A European perspective Chris Steenmans