Mid Term Evaluation Report On Inspire Implementation

The implementation of the INSPIRE Directive across the European Union (EU) has reached the halfway stage with generally positive outcomes. This mid-term evaluation report looks at the implementation of the directive and its relevance, and discusses any fine-tuning necessary to fully meet its initial objective of creating an infrastructure to share spatial data and services in Europe supporting environmental policies and policies that have an impact on the environment. INSPIRE was founded on the basis of five issues that were identified as presenting obstacles to this objective: missing or incomplete spatial data, incomplete descriptions of spatial data, difficulty to combine different spatial data sets, inaccessibility of spatial data and various barriers to data sharing. The first important conclusion of the mid-term evaluation is that a satisfactory evolution of these issues has taken place until now. But overall, at the halfway stage of the directive, the five initial problems that led to the creation of INSPIRE still exist to varying degrees and the overall goal of INSPIRE is still valid.