INSPIRE Data and Service Sharing Implementing Rule

12 December 2008, 7:52pm

The INSPIRE Data and Service Sharing Drafting Team has finalised a first draft of the Implementing Rules (D.4.9), which is now available for comments from REGISTERED members of INSPIRE Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDICs) and Legally Mandated Organisations (LMOs).

Draft Implementing Rule on Data and Service Sharing

The goal of this document is to define harmonised conditions for the access to spatial data sets and services provided from the Member States to the institutions and bodies of the Community. Each provision is followed by a commentary. The document also contains a section with guidelines.

NOTE: Comments on this draft are restricted to registered Spatial Data Interest Communities and Legally Mandated Organisations ONLY and should be submitted by their contact person through the established method via the INSPIRE web site.

Based on all the comments received, the Data and Service Sharing Drafting Team will issue a new version of the Implementing Rules for submission to the European Commission which will propose a final draft to be submitted for opinion to the INSPIRE regulatory committee in 2009.

Instructions for the preparation and submission of comments

* Only comments submitted via the INSPIRE website and using this EXCEL template will be processed. Please do not send your comments in other formats.

* The last uploaded comments file within the established deadline will be accepted as the final version of the comments from the SDIC or LMO. Please ensure that all your comments are included in this file. Only one file per SDIC/LMO is permitted.

* If your organisation is registered as SDIC or LMO and has membership in one or more SDICs at the same time, please decide which channel you will use to forward your comments.

Multiple submissions do not increase the "weight" of the comment, however they create unnecessary burden for the SDIC/LMO contact person and during the processing of the comments. Regardless of the source each individual comment will be carefully considered in the comment resolution process.

The deadline for submission of comments is 13 February 2009 24:00 CET.

The Commission is planning to organise a comments resolution workshop, now scheduled on the 11-12 March 2009. The aim of the workshop will be to support the Drafting Team in processing and properly integrating the results of the consultation into revised draft Implementing Rules; therefore representatives from SDIC/LMO needed to correctly process the comments will be invited.

Please note that the workshop will only process comments received within the consultation deadline of 13 February 2009. No further comments will be taken into account during the workshop.

Draft Implementing Rule on Data and Service Sharing

Spatial Data Interest Communities and Legally Mandated Organisations

EXCEL comments reporting template

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