[geo-discuss] Texts adopted by Parliament: INSPIRE

Thu Jun 15 11:38:01 UTC 2006

Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> [060615]:
[snip]
>>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:

I don't think we necessarily want to email all 5500 signatories. Rather 
we want one person per country to volunteer to do this. See below.

So far we have:
   UK: Rufus Pollock
   FR: Benjamin Henrion
   ES: ...
   DE: ...
   IT: ...

If you are willing to take one country please mail the list and/or enter 
this on:

   http://www.publicgeodata.org/ContactYourEnvironmentDepartment

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

We don't have this for most countries. The wiki page for this is:

http://www.publicgeodata.org/ContactYourEnvironmentDepartment

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

I've already contacted the UK agency (DEFRA) and the basic response was:
   * the UK government position isn't going to change from what it was 
previously
   * Cost recovery and public sector information issues are dealt with 
by the Treasury and we should contact them (I was given contact details 
for the person in the treasury who deals with this are)

This is something we should now follow up.

> 3. Report this initiative to geo-discuss at lists.okfn.org.
> 
> I will start today contacting my minister and one MP.

Great.

Regards,

Rufus

>>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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>>>geo-discuss at lists.okfn.org
>>>http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
>>
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