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Mr President, first, as a member of the Conciliation Committee, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Brepoels, and the delegation chairman, Mr Vidal-Quadras, for their excellent work. The Finnish Presidency also deserves credit for the conciliation process.
The success of the Community’s environment policy is largely dependent on the availability of scientific information and the smooth flow of such information. So this proposal for a directive, which has come about through conciliation, and which will establish a legal framework for establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe, is a precondition for scientific evaluations carried out on the basis of environmental legislation.
At various stages of the debate on INSPIRE, the main aim was to remove some of the barriers that in particular hamper the shared use of environmental data among authorities. In conciliation, general agreement was reached on the principles enabling authorities and other Community bodies to use cartographic and other special data within the scope of this directive and now in the possession of other authorities.
A good end result was also achieved with regard to public access to information. In the future, a wider range of Internet services relating to the environment will be available. These services, meant for the general public, will in most cases be free.
It will be permitted to charge for rapidly changing information, such as certain weather information services. Even before INSPIRE, the Community used certain instruments to enable it first to promote the accessibility of reliable information, especially information on the public sector, and later on to harmonise information in order to make comparisons possible at Community level. One of them is the Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information, for which I was rapporteur. The problems noticed during the debate on this have been taken into account in preparing INSPIRE, and I would like to thank everyone warmly for that. All in all, the directive will create a sound and viable basis for developing spatial information infrastructures in the European Community and making it possible to maintain quality data and services in the Member States."@en1
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