| INSPIRE - INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe |
The Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe is the initiative of the European Commission. The European Commission and Council directive of the same name aims at creating the European legislative framework needed to build a European spatial information infrastructure. It lays down general rules for the establishment of a European spatial data infrastructure, in particular to support environmental policies and policies affecting the environment. The main objective of INSPIRE is to provide more firt-rate and standardized spatial information for the formulation and implementation of Community policies at all levels of the Member States.
The following video provides a brief introduction of INSPIRE and what data it concerns:
| Basic principles of INSPIRE |
- data collected and created once and managed at a level where it is the most efficient;
- possibility to seamlessly combine spatial data from different sources and share them among many users and applications;
- spatial data created at one level of government and shared with its other levels;
- spatial data available under conditions that will not restrict their extensive use;
- easier searching of available spatial data, evaluating the appropriateness of their use for the purpose, and making available information under which conditions these data can be used.
| Representatives of the Czech Republic in the INSPIRE Committee |
Jitka Faugnerová, CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency, inspire(at)cenia.cz a
Eva Kubátová, Ministry of the Interior, eva.kubatova(at)mvcr.cz.
Another contact person is Lenka Rejentová, CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency, inspire(at)cenia.cz.
