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DRAFT 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

ENVI-PR-787833

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

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This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission's proposal to amend the INSPIRE Directive (Directive 2007/2/EC) to simplify requirements for setting up the EU spatial information infrastructure. The rapporteur broadly supports the simplification goals and alignment with horizontal data law, but considers that the Commission's approach risks losing important safeguards specific to environmental spatial data. The draft report tables 11 amendments to the proposal, covering recitals 10 and 14 and Articles 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 17 of Directive 2007/2/EC.

Committee position. The rapporteur broadly supports the simplification and alignment with horizontal data law, but considers that the Commission's approach risks losing important safeguards specific to environmental spatial data. She tables 11 amendments to the proposal.

Key points

  1. The draft report approves the first-reading position set out in the amendments.
  2. Amendment 1 concerns recital 10 of the proposed Directive.
  3. Amendment 2 concerns recital 14 of the proposed Directive.
  4. Amendment 3 concerns Article 1, paragraph 1, point 6 of the proposed Directive, amending Articles 9, 10 and 12 of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  5. Amendment 4 adds a new point 6 bis, letter a, to Article 1, paragraph 1, amending Article 11(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  6. Amendment 5 adds a new point 6 bis, letter b, to Article 1, paragraph 1, amending Article 11(2) and (3) of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  7. Amendment 6 adds a new point 7, letter b, indent i, to Article 1, paragraph 1, amending the introductory part of Article 13(1), second subparagraph, of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  8. Amendment 7 adds a new point 7, letter b, indent ii, to Article 1, paragraph 1, amending Article 13(1), second subparagraph, letter b, of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  9. Amendment 8 concerns Article 1, paragraph 1, point 10 of the proposed Directive, amending Article 17 of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  10. Amendment 9 adds a new point 10 bis, letter a, to Article 1, paragraph 1, amending Article 17(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  11. Amendment 10 adds a new point 10 bis, letter b, to Article 1, paragraph 1, amending Article 17(2) of Directive 2007/2/EC.
  12. Amendment 11 adds a new point 10 bis, letter c, to Article 1, paragraph 1, amending Article 17(3) to (8) of Directive 2007/2/EC.

Who is affected

  • Public sector organisations that share environmental spatial data under the INSPIRE infrastructure.
  • The general public, which gains improved access to spatial data across the Union.
  • The Commission, whose proposal the rapporteur seeks to amend.

Figures and deadlines

  • Directive 2007/2/EC, the INSPIRE Directive adopted in 2007.
  • 18 March 2026, date of the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee.

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