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"Mr President, may I also thank the rapporteur for her excellent work and particularly for the commitment she has put into this report. Listening to various honourable Members, one has the impression that their countries should never have acceded to this Union, because everything is evidently better where they live, and the Union makes nothing but mistakes. I nevertheless believe that a common policy on the environment is something that benefits all European countries – even those that already have exemplary arrangements – because environmental problems simply do not stop at national borders. This instrument, which we have gratefully received from the Commission and which our honourable colleague has dealt with so well, is further evidence that we need European provisions. The fact is that we need common spatial information, especially for environmental purposes, in order to support the development of accessibility standards and, as far as possible, to create a geodata structure that functions effectively throughout the EU.
There is, however, a need to establish where responsibilities lie: who generates the information, who is responsible for maintaining and updating it, and whose property it is. It is imperative that we build up this metadata and disseminate it widely. At the same time, there are some problems we must address, such as liability issues. If we pass on very detailed data, most of which is municipal data, by which I mean information compiled by local authorities, we must always ensure that we also communicate the conditions of use. We must also take into account that the local authorities will suffer some loss of income. As envisaged in the report, it should be permissible to levy charges for the transmission of data. It would also be logical for the decision on the amount of the charge to be taken by the authority compiling the data.
Another problem is that the data we generate should be as homogeneous as possible, and this will entail a degree of harmonisation."@en1
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