[geo-discuss] Texts adopted by Parliament: INSPIRE

Thu Jun 15 12:14:34 BST 2006

Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> [060615]:
> Thanks Markus,
> 
> A quick look through seems to indicate the text was amended as the ENVI 
> committee had recommended and that most of the really bad stuff from the 
> Council version was taken out (see examples below) so three cheers for 
> the Parliament (and the Commission!).
> 
> At this point the whole thing will move into conciliation prior to 3rd 
> Reading and so we'll need to keep track of what deals are being brokered 
> between the Council and the Parliament.

Better, send an email to all our signatories asking them to take action
like:

1. Email and call their responsible minister (do we have a list?) and
ask them if they support the amendment 21 and 27?

2. If they answer negatively, call an MP and ask them to put an urgent
question to the Minister.

3. Report this initiative to geo-discuss at lists.okfn.org.

I will start today contacting my minister and one MP.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rufus Pollock
> 
> Amendment 21
> ************
> 
> Council
> =======
> 
> 1.  Member States shall ensure that:
> (a) the services referred to in point (a) of Article 11(1) are available 
> to the public free of charge;
> 		
> (b) the services referred to in point (b) of Article 11(1) are, as a 
> rule, available to the public free of charge. However, in cases where 
> charges and/or licences are an essential precondition for maintaining 
> the spatial data sets and services or for fulfilling the requirements of 
> already existing international spatial data infrastructure in a 
> sustainable way, Member States may apply charges and/or licences either 
> to the person providing the service to the public, or, where the service 
> provider chooses, to the public itself.
> 
> Parliament
> ==========
> 
> 1.  Member States shall ensure that the services referred to in points 
> (a) and (b) of Article 11(1) are available to the public free of charge.
> 
> Amendment 27
> ************
> 
> Council
> =======
> 
> 9.  This Article does not affect the existence or ownership of public 
> sector authorities' intellectual property rights.
> 
> Parliament
> ==========
> 
> Deleted
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just received an italian posting about this Web page:
> >
> >http://www.europarl.europa.eu/omk/sipade3?SAME_LEVEL=1&LEVEL=1&NAV=X&DETAIL=&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P6-TA-2006-0252+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN 
> >
> >"European Parliament legislative resolution on the Council common
> >position for adopting a directive of the European Parliament and of
> >the Council establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in
> >the European Community (INSPIRE) (12064/2/2005 – C6-0054/2006 –
> >2004/0175(COD))
> >
> >(Codecision procedure: second reading)
> >
> >..."
> >
> >along with this initiative:
> >International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research
> >http://ijsdir.jrc.it/
> >
> >You may already know that...
> >
> >Best,
> >Markus
> >
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