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REPORT (COM(2025)0985 – C100338/2025 – 2025/0393(COD))

On the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2007/2/EC as regards simplification of certain requirements for the establishment of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the Union

A-10-2026-0233

Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety · Rapporteur: Emma Wiesner

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Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to amend Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE) to simplify certain requirements for setting up a geographic information infrastructure in the Union. The amendments add new recitals and change existing ones, and change several articles of the Directive, including Articles 3, 4, 5, 6 to 7, 9 to 12, 13 and 17. The explanatory note says the proposal is part of the Environmental Omnibus simplification package and the GreenData4All initiative, and removes technical requirements for network services and data sharing. The rapporteur supports simplification and alignment with horizontal data legislation, but considers that the Commission's approach risks losing safeguards specific to environmental geographic data. The rapporteur says targeted and proportionate obligations should be kept in INSPIRE itself because environmental geographic data has a specific role in environmental reporting, policy implementation and decision-making.

Committee position. The committee adopts Parliament's first-reading position amending the Commission proposal, adding new recitals and changing several articles of Directive 2007/2/EC, while supporting simplification and alignment with horizontal data legislation.

Key points

  1. Parliament adopts its first-reading position on the proposal to amend Directive 2007/2/EC on the geographic information infrastructure.
  2. The Commission must refer the matter to Parliament again if it changes its proposal, amends it substantially or intends to amend it substantially.
  3. The amendments insert new recitals 2a, 3a and 12a and change recitals 6, 8, 10, 13 and 14.
  4. The amendments change Article 3, points 5, 7, 8 and 10 of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  5. The amendments change Article 4(1), point (c)(ii) of the Directive.
  6. The amendments change Article 5(4) of the Directive.
  7. The amendments change Articles 6 to 7 of the Directive and insert a new point 4a on Article 7.
  8. The amendments change Articles 9 to 12 of the Directive and insert new points 6a and 6b on Articles 11 and 12.
  9. The amendments change Article 13(1), first and second subparagraphs of the Directive.
  10. The amendments change Article 17 of the Directive and insert new points 10a on Article 17(1), (2) and (3) to (8).
  11. The rapporteur declares that she included contributions on the subject from representatives of interest groups and third-country public authorities.

Who is affected

  • Public sector organisations that share environmental geographic information under the INSPIRE Directive.
  • The Commission, which must re-refer the matter to Parliament if it changes its proposal.
  • The Council and national parliaments, which receive Parliament's position.

Figures and deadlines

  • Directive 2007/2/EC, the INSPIRE Directive adopted in 2007.
  • Opinion of the Committee of the Regions of 7 May 2026.
  • Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 18 March 2026.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 192(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.