| 5.1 | Would you prefer one common data sharing regime under horizontal legislation? | Generally, the overall future vision for the provision, sharing and use of (geospatial and environmental) data should be defined first. Then it should be discussed how this vision can be achieved and which (parts of which) existing legislation should be changed how. In the second step, it would of course be welcome if obligations are streamlined and relationship between legal acts were clear and consistent. |
| 5.2 | What would be the possible future role of the INSPIRE Directive? Is it still needed? For what? | - For the past 15 years, INSPIRE has been and still is the main driver of sharing spatial & environmental data in Europe. In the future, INSPIRE should Any future EU legislation on spatial & environmental data sharing should ensure that all spatial/environmental data in Europe is made accessible in such a flexible way that it fulfils the requirements of data-using environments and applications such as data spaces, digital twins, etc. in terms of interfaces, formats, etc.
- The INSPIRE Directive Annexes as they stand are an open-ended obligation to harmonize almost everything upfront and offer this to everybody, while there is no easy way to see EU-wide use-cases like maps or so based on the data provided by all Member States that prove the added value of INSPIRE beyond the good idea of sharing data. The now existing High Value Datasets may serve as the focus of EU activity in the future while for all other datasets a reasonable documentation on Member State level would be sufficent (see comments above).
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