The INSPIRE directive or INSPIRE [1] lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. The INSPIRE Directive entered into force on the 15th May 2007.
INSPIRE is based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the 27 Member States of the European Union [2]. The Directive addresses 34 spatial data themes[3] needed for environmental applications.
To ensure that the spatial data infrastructures of the Member States are compatible and usable in a Community and transboundary context, the INSPIRE Directive requires that additional legislation or common Implementing Rules (IR) are adopted for a number of specific areas (Metadata, Interoperability of spatial data sets and services, Network Services, Data and Service Sharing and Monitoring and Reporting). These are published either as Commission Regulations [4] or as Decisions[5].
The Commission is assisted in the process of adopting such rules by a regulatory committee, INSPIRE Committee, composed of representatives of the Member States and chaired by a representative of the Commission (this is known as the Comitology procedure [6] ).
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The following have been agreed upon by the INSPIRE committee but are still in the process of being adopted.
Source: INSPIRE Site
The INSPIRE Directive also envisages the creation of an INSPIRE Geoportal. A prototype INSPIRE Geoportal[7] is being developed at the Joint Research Centre, which allows for discovery and viewing of spatial data sets and services. Its aim is to identify issues related to its implementation and accessing distributed INSPIRE services, to help towards the development of the operational geoportal.
The INSPIRE Conference 2010 [8] will take place from 23 to 25 June 2010 in Krakow, Poland. On 22 June pre-conference workshops will be organised. The theme of this year’s edition is "INSPIRE as a Framework for Cooperation".
  | Better geographical data: conciliation agreement approved by EP on INSPIRE - Better geographical data: conciliation agreement approved by EP on INSPIRE |
| | Open Letter regarding the INSPIRE Directive - Open Letter - Public Geo Data |
| | INSPIRE website - INSPIRE > WELCOME TO INSPIRE |
| | Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 - EUR-Lex - 32008R1205 - EN |
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