[SDI-Europe] Commission proposes streamlining European system collecting, analysing and reporting environmental information

[Kate Lance]

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/185&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=fr
Commission proposes streamlining European system collecting, analysing and reporting environmental information
The European Commission proposes to improve, modernise and streamline the present information systems by establishing a European Shared Environment Information System. The objective of this system is to tie better together all existing data gathering and information flows using modern tools such as the internet and satellite technology. The objective is also to move away from paper based reporting and reports to a system where data is made available to the users at source in an open and transparent way.
With the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) environmentally-relevant data and information would be stored in environmental databases throughout the European Union and would be interconnected virtually and be compatible. The proposed SEIS is a decentralised but integrated web-enabled information system based on a network of public information providers sharing environmental data and information. 
A detailed implementation plan for SEIS will be built since this year on efforts already being undertaken in Europe to create integrated information systems. These include the Water Information System for Europe (WISE) and the European environment information and observation network (EIONET), the 2007 INSPIRE Directive on access and interoperability of spatial data, and the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative on Earth monitoring data from satellites. 
EU financial support to complement the national and regional budgets to implement SEIS will come from the Research Framework Programmes, LIFE, the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) and the Structural Funds.
 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0046:FIN:EN:PDF
Towards a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS)
 
http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52008SC0111:EN:HTML
SEIS - Impact assessment

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