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"Mr President, of course the sharing of information is a laudable goal, but there are specific issues. Mr Bowis has already referred to one of them as it relates to the United Kingdom. I should like to focus on that for a moment.
The Ordnance Survey in the United Kingdom is highly developed and sophisticated. Indeed, in my constituency in Northern Ireland, we have our own service, which also shares that world-leading status. It has been built up by investment in the most technologically-developed equipment available and by nurturing a skill base over many years. As a result, there is a valuable intellectual property right attached to the innovative spatial data that has been collected.
It seems to me that the common position of the Council on the INSPIRE Directive largely recognises and protects those realities. However, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of this House apparently wants to mount a smash-and-grab raid, so that what has been built up expensively over decades is made available to all, at no cost. I am not opposed to the sharing of information and data across Europe, but it must come with a price attached when it has cost so much to acquire. Information exchange of that nature must be on the basis of trade, not a handout.
The fact that data has a monetary worth is the key to future progress and future development. Therefore I very strongly feel that the better position is the common position and that the committee’s amendments are taking us backwards in a direction that will have the effect of damaging what has been built up and has been so good, for example, in the Ordnance Survey in the United Kingdom. We do not want to threaten the financial sustainability of spatial data collection in the UK or elsewhere. That, I fear, would be the consequence of some of these amendments."@en1
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