Improving waste water management support from the European Structural and Investment Funds 4 th meeting of the CoR/EC Technical Plateform for Cooperation on the Environment Wednesday 8 October 2014 Development of a Structured Implementa3on and Informa3on Framework in rela3on to waste water policy at na3onal and regional level : the example of France French seconded na3onal expert to the European Commission Ini3ator of the French waste water website Bruno RAKEDJIAN The INSPIRE directive (2007/2/CE) establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community Article 11 objectives also SIIF objectives EU/National/Regional/ local Data linked to EU environmental policies Implementation of: Discovery services View services Download services Invoke services Those services have to : take into account relevant user requirements be easy to use available to the public Be accessible via the Internet Development of EU/regional/ national/local website(s) and IT tools http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ 1
Deadline of INSPIRE Services Implementation COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 INSPIRE Annex III.6 Utilities and governmental services (sewage, water supply, waste, Energy ) The discovery, view, download and invoke services through the example of French waste water website http:// assainissement.developpementdurable.gouv.fr/ 2
The purposes of the creation of the French waste water website Lack of national waste water information, Lots of poor knowledge about the real situation of French waste water system, Lots of requests from water stake holders but also from general public as regards the public access to waste water information, hard situation with the Commission and the different infringment procedures. à Implementation of the Aarhus Convention to show the total transparency of the French Government The SIIF/INSPIRE view service Welcome page with a map viewer Possibility to zoom in/out SIIF focused on compliance And forward looking aspect Possibility to display the content of the database 3
The SIIF/INSPIRE view service Possibity to overlay viewable spatial data sets UWWTP information Ammonium concentration in river The SIIF/INSPIRE discovery service - Sort data by capacity, name, region, compliance - Search data - Display the content of the database as regards a specific treatment plant (previous slide) 4
The SIIF/INSPIRE download/invoke service http://assainissement.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/services.php Download service How to create a link to the detailed information webpage of a UWWTP Download service Whole waste water dataset accessible (libreoffice format, reference years 2009 to 2012) Invoke Service. Kml file, OCC files, WMS and WFS Download service Sensible area dataset Opportunities given by a download service Direct access to the detailed information of a UWWTP from other websites http://sierm.eaurmc.fr http://communes.bretagne-environnement.org/ http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/usages-etpressions/polluantes-domestiques-et-urbaines 5
SIIF is INSPIRE compliant but is aslo Access to regulation webpage assainissement.developpementdurable.gouv.fr/recueil.php Access to waste water national action plan assainissement.developpement -durable.gouv.fr/documents/ 2011_09_27_Plan_daction_ass ainissement_version_finale.pdf Access to waste water national dashboard www.assainissement.developp ement-durable.gouv.fr/ d o c u m e n t s / carte_contentieux_eru_2014_ 04.pdf Access to news www.assainissement.developp ement-durable.gouv.fr/ d o c u m e n t s / carte_contentieux_eru_2014_ 04.pdf The effects of SIIF compatible tools and websites SIIF concept has not only to do with data but also to give easy access to all kind of information (compliance, regulation, reports, action plans, existing website, specific tools ) SIIF allows to implement public access to environmental information directive, INSPIRE directive and the new decision regarding the General Union Environment Action Programme to 2020 SIIF allows citizens, civil servants, researchers, companies to increase their knowledge, better do their work, save time and money, increase the quality of our environment It decreases administrative burden for them SIIF allows time saving for Member States and the Commission for answering to the public SIIF allows data producers to have more accurate data SIIF increases the number of visitors of EU and national websites French waste water website : more than 500 visitors per day The website is useful for lots of experts (400 people each day during the week) even for the general public (100 people each day) 6
Thank you for your attention INSPIRE directive 2007/2/EC establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community 7