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.
Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive
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
Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive
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
Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive
II – Metadata -
Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive
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
Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive
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”
Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive
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!
Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive
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
Proposal INSPIRE Framework Directive
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