Annexes to COM(2013)805 - Interim Evaluation of the European Earth Monitoring Programme (GMES) and its Initial Operations (2011-2013) - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2013)805 - Interim Evaluation of the European Earth Monitoring Programme (GMES) and its Initial Operations (2011-2013). |
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| document | COM(2013)805  |
| date | November 20, 2013 |
As services and data are already being used across a diverse range of policy areas, the evaluation results are of interest to wider Commission services, especially the following DGs: AGRI, CLIMA, EEAS, ECHO, ENV, MARE and REGIO. In addition, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the JRC may draw on the evaluation findings in their present capacity as technical coordinators for the GMES Emergency Management Service and the Land Monitoring service.
Following the recommendation, services development has been designed to exploit synergies and avoid duplications. In the evaluator’s view, up to now there has been a tendency to focus more on the space component to the detriment of the in-situ and services components. Greater policy attention was considered crucial in ensuring services are sufficiently well resourced and in closing data gaps, since these components are critical to the ultimate success of the programme. At the Commission there has recently been a re-organisation to ensure that both the infrastructure component and services get due attention: there are now two Units, each one dealing with one Copernicus area. Moreover, the draft Copernicus Regulation responds to the recommendation by foreseeing a considerable increase in the funding for services.
The evaluator stressed the need to finalise the data and information policy. Copernicus stakeholders and in particular the private sector, who are less well informed, need clarity on how the concept of ‘full and open data access’ will operate in practice. The Commission has recently adopted the Delegated Regulation[11] on data policy which clarifies these issues.
[1] Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES) and its initial operations (2011-2013). OJ L. 276, 20.10.2010, p.1.
[2] http://www.copernicus.eu/pages-principales/library/study-reports/
[3] COM(2013) 312 final/2 of 12 July 2013.
[4] The GMES Preparatory Actions were allocated a budget of EUR 10.2 million during the 2008-2010 period. Three annual calls for tenders of 3 years duration were supported which led to the award of five preparatory projects.
[5] linkER is the Preparatory Action intended to support the operational use of GMES Emergency Management service products across the whole European Union.
[6] The SAFER project aims at implementing preoperational versions of the Emergency Management service.
[7] In 1985 the Corine programme was initiated in the European Union. Corine means 'Coordination of Information on the Environment'. It was a prototype project working on many different environmental issues. The Corine databases and several of its programmes have been taken over by the EEA.
[8] The Urban Atlas is providing pan-European comparable land use and land cover data for Large Urban Zones with more than 100.000 inhabitants as defined by the Urban Audit. The Geographic Information Systems data can be downloaded together with a map for each urban area covered and a report with the metadata.
[9] Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community.
[10] COM(2013) 312 final/2 of 12 July 2013, Art 2(2), Art 2(3).
[11] Commission Delegated Regulation of 12 July 2013, Document C(2013)4311 final.