Across boundaries : SDI in a European perspective (INSPIRE)
Ryttersgaard, Jes
After several initiatives from he European Union for creating an infrastructure for spatial information, the Directorate General - Environmental (DG-ENV) of the European Union (EU) took an initiative in 2001. The reason was that the environmental sector in Europe has a number of registration and reporting tasks comprising objects with a spatial reference. The new initiative adopted the name INSPIRE. INSPIRE is an abbreviation for Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe INSPIRE aims at making available relevant, harmonised and quality geographic information for the purpose of formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community policy-making. The environmental sector has a leading role in this initiative, but it is fully aware of the similarities between the different sectors such as agriculture, transportation, health a.s.o. If things go according to plan the legislation process will start later this year and in 2006 or 2007 the legislation for an European Spatial Information Infrastructure will be in place. The rest is hard work.
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