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  1. What to ask?
    1. Support for Amendment 21?
    2. Support for Amendment 27?
  2. Responsible ministers in each EU member state

The European Parliament voted in their second reading of INSPIRE to support the rapporteur’s amendments in favour of free public “view” of geodata, and against the intellectual property get-out clauses added by the Council of Ministers.

Because the Council made no effort to reach an agreement with Parliament between the ENVI vote and the second reading in the Parliament, INSPIRE now goes to a “conciliation” process before a third reading in Parliament.

Open Letter Third Reading is the letter that Public Geodata is sending to all 25 Ministers in the Council. INSPIRE should be enabling the exchange of geodata. Does each Minister support amendments in favour of better access and less restriction going into conciliation? If not, can the Minister explain why in a national parliament setting?

The Council is made up of Ministers in each European national government who are responsible for environment policy. They accept policy advice from National Mapping Agencies in each country; they don’t get to hear many other voices!

What to ask?

  • Does your Minister support the Parliament’s Amendment 21 (restoring the right of the public to view public geodata free of cost)?
  • Does your Minister support the Parliament’s Amendment 27 (exempting geodata from publication due to “intellectual property rights”)?
  • If not, why not?

Support for Amendment 21?

Amendment 21 restores the right of the public to view, free of cost, state-collected geographic data

Council
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1.  Member States shall ensure that:
(a) the services referred to in point (a) of Article 11(1) are available
to the public free of charge;

(b) the services referred to in point (b) of Article 11(1) are, as a
rule, available to the public free of charge. However, in cases where
charges and/or licences are an essential precondition for maintaining
the spatial data sets and services or for fulfilling the requirements of
already existing international spatial data infrastructure in a
sustainable way, Member States may apply charges and/or licences either
to the person providing the service to the public, or, where the service
provider chooses, to the public itself.

Parliament
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1.  Member States shall ensure that the services referred to in points
(a) and (b) of Article 11(1) are available to the public free of charge.

Support for Amendment 27?

Amendment 27 deletes the copyright get-out clause added by the Council which states This Article does not affect the existence or ownership of public sector authorities’ intellectual property rights.

Amendment 27
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Council
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9.  This Article does not affect the existence or ownership of public
sector authorities' intellectual property rights.

Parliament
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Responsible ministers in each EU member state

The following is a list of Ministers who represent Environment policy. This information was taken from http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/04/st15/st15962.en04.pdf Where possible we have provided contact details and links. If the details of your national minister are missing, please help Public Geodata by adding them to this page.

Country

Minister

Email

Minister of What?

Phone

Fax

Postal Address
 

BE

Ms Evelyne HUYTEBROECK

[email protected]

Minister of the Brussels Capital Regional Government, with responsibility for the Environment, Energy and Water Policy

Tél.: (+32.2) 517.12.00

Fax: (+32.2) 517.14.90

Rue du Marais 49-53, 1000 Bruxelles
 

CZ

M. Tomás NOVOTNÝ

[email protected]

Vice-Minister for the Environment

+420 267 121 111,

fax: +420 267 310 308

Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR, Vršovická 65, 100 10 Praha 10
 

DK

Ms Connie HEDEGAARD

[email protected] profile

Minister for the Environment

– Tlf: + 45 33 92 76 00

Højbro Plads 4 – Copenhagen K
 

DE

Mr Sigmar GABRIEL

wikipedia profile

Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

Tel: +49-30-285-50-0

Fax:+49-30-285504375 or +49-30-183052044

German Federal Environment Ministry, Dep. Public Relations, Pf 12 06 29, D-10178 Berlin – Environment Ministry Berlin Office: Alexanderstraße 3 D – 10178 Berlin note. Bonn Office: Robert-Schuman-Platz 3 D – 53175 Bonn
 

EE

Mr Olavi TAMMEMÄE

[email protected]

Deputy Minister for the Environment

(EE) 626 2998
 

GR

Mr Stavros KALOGIANNIS

[email protected] profile

State Secretary for the Environment, Regional Planning and Public Works
 

ES

Ms Cristina NARBONA RUIZ

wikipedia

Minister for the Environment

Tf: 91 5976000

Fax: 0034(91) 5975978

Plaza de San Juan de la Cruz, s/n 28071- Madrid
 

FR

Mme Nelly OLIN

[email protected]

Minister for Ecology and Sustainable Development

Tel: 01.42.19.20.21

Fax:01 42 19 10 39

20, avenue de Ségur, 75302 Paris 07 SP
 

IE

Mr Dick ROCHE

[email protected]

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Tel: +353 1 888 2403

Fax: +353 1 878 8640

Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Custom House, Dublin
 

IT

On Alfonso PECORARO SCANIO

email contact form

Ministro dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio

Centralino: 06.57221

Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio, Via Cristoforo Colombo, n. 44, 00147 – Roma ITALIA
 

CY

Mr Efthymios EFTHYMIOU

Minister for Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment
 

LV

Mr Raimonds VEJONIS

[email protected]

Minister for the Environment
 

LT

Mr Arnas KUNDROTAS

Minister for the Environment
 

LU

Mr Lucien LUX

[email protected]

Minister for the Environment, Minister for Transport, Ministère de l’Environnement

Tél: +352 478 68 24

Fax: +352 40 04 10

18, montée de la Pétrusse, L-2327 Luxembourg
 

HU

Mr Miklós PERSÁNYI

http://www.kvvm.hu/

Minister for the Environment and Water Management

Tel: (36-1) 457 3300

Fax: (36-1) 201 3056
 

MT

Mr George PULLICINO

email contact form

Minister for Rural Affairs and the Environment
 

NL

Mr Pieter VAN GEEL

wikipedia entry

State Secretary for Housing, Planning and the Environment

+31 (0)70 339 39 39

Fax +31-70-339 13 59

PO Box 20951 2500 EZ The Hague The Netherlands
 

AT

Mr Josef PRÖLL

wikipedia [email protected]

Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management

(+ 43 1)711 00-0

+43-1-7120710

Lebensministerium, Stubenring 1, A-1010 Vienna
 

PL

Mr. Mariusz-Orion Jedrysek

[email protected], http://www.mos.gov.pl/

Ministry of the Environment, Undersecretary of State, Chief National Geologist

+48 (0) 22 579 23 50

+48 (0) 22 579 22 80

Wawelska 52/54, 00-922 Warszawa, Poland
 

PT

Mr Francisco Nunes Correia

profile

Minister for the Environment and Regional Planning
 

SI

Mr Janez PODOBNIK

Minister for the Environment and Spatial Planning
 

SK

Mr László MIKLÓS

[email protected], [email protected]

State Secretary at the Ministry of the Environment

02 5956-1111

02 5956-2222

Ministerstvo životného prostredia SR, Nám. Ľudovíta Štúra 1, 812 35 Bratislava
 

FI

Mr Jan Erik ENESTAM

wikipedia

Minister for the Environment

+ 358 9 160 07

+ 358 9 1603 954

P.O. BOX 35, 00023 Government, Finland
 

SE

Ms Lena SOMMESTAD

profile (email, phone)

Minister for the Environment
 

UK

Mr David MILIBAND

[email protected]

Minister of State for the Environment – Defra

08459 33 55 77 (helpline) 020 7238 6000 (switchboard)

+44 20 72382188

Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR