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Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the Community (INSPIRE)
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| Resource Type: |
document --> policy documents
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| Country: |
European Union
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| Year: |
2004 |
| Availability: |
Commission staff working document, Extended impact assessment, Brussels, 23.7.2004, SEC(2004) 980, COM(2004)516 final
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| Author 1/Producer: |
European Commission
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Information management systems-->Data storage
Contaminated land-->Information management systems-->Geographical information systems
Contaminated land-->stats, registers, inventories etc
Soil-->Soil Overview
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| Short description: |
The Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) is intended to provide a
common Europe-wide framework to eliminate a number of these chronic inefficiencies in the
sector of spatial information. This infrastructure will provide the context within which spatial
information can be analysed, overlaid, and integrated to support public policy formulation,
implementation and evaluation, in particular in relation to sustainable development. When
such a context is lacking, parts of it are created over and over again for every application
where spatial data is needed.
Establishing such a common Europe-wide framework will require legislation at European
level. The overall objective of the INSPIRE legislation will be to make harmonised and highquality
spatial (geographic) information readily available across public sector bodies in the
European Union at local, regional, national and European level in order to support policies
with a strong territorial dimension. INSPIRE will begin with information needed for
environmental policy, but will be defined in an open way so that it can be extended in the
future to agricultural, transport and other sectoral requirements. It also has the objective of
facilitating access by citizens and business to spatial information anywhere across the
European Union.
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Link to Organisation(s):
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EC European Commission
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 30/05/2007
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