Support To The Evaluation Of The Implementation Of The Directive 2007 2 Ec On Infrastructure For Spatial Information In The European Community Inspire

The overall objective of Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE) is to establish a European spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of EU's environmental policies and policies or activities which have an impact on the environment (Article 1 of INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC). This will enable the better sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe which will benefit citizens, businesses and science alike. Article 21 of the INSPIRE Directives defines the basic principles for the monitoring and reporting. More detailed implementation rules regarding INSPIRE monitoring and reporting were adopted as a Commission Decision 2009/442/EC of 5 June 2009 as regards monitoring and reporting. In 2019, this reporting Decision was amended by the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1372, which introduced a simplified indicator framework and automated calculation of indicators through the direct use of the INSPIRE Geoportal and the INSPIRE Reference Validator to process the metadata harvested from Member States discovery services. Due to the changes in the legislation in the recent years, the direct comparison across reporting years and tracking of progress is not possible. This country form therefore highlights the annual status of Austria in the various areas of the INSPIRE implementation since 2014. The country form includes information until March 2021 as a summary of information acquired through: Country summary reports - Austria 2016 Country fiche - Austria 2019, Austria 2020, Austria 2021 Monitoring data (INSPIRE Monitoring 2019, INSPIRE Monitoring 2020, INSPIRE official monitoring dashboards (ref. years 2010 2018)).