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at the moment we will join EU and be obliged to implement
Inspire.
Very long time Croatia did not have any legislation regulating
GI filed. The first legislation concerning SDI in Croatia came
into force in February 2007. A separate chapter defining SDI
was included in the new Law on State Survey and Real Estate
Cadastre. At the time the Law was preparing, the proposal of
Inspire directive was published, so all articles defining NSDI
are fully in line with Inspire. The Law gives definition of NSDI
and metadata, content of metadata information, services, NSDI
data and subjects that are obliged to participate in its
establishment and maintenance, and what is very important
gives institutional framework and defines NSDI bodies and
their responsibilities. NSDI subjects are responsible for the
regular maintenance of the data regarding their spatial data sets
and services and are obliged to make available the spatial data
information under their jurisdiction or authority for the national
geoportal.
The content represents only a part of the topic comprised by
the Inspire directive because it was assessed that the entire
directive would not be feasible in Croatia at this moment, or
rather it would set up very high criteria that might be rejected
by the stakeholders. There was an idea to prepare a separate law
concerning NSDI, but at the moment this idea was impossible
to realize and would take very long time, therefore, decision
was made that basic legal framework should be established in
frame of the Law on State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre.
Table 1. gives some comparison facts between Inspire and the
Law. It is important to stress the current Croatian SDI
legislation is only the first step of transposition Inspire into
national regulations. The SDI part of the Law is harmonized
with Inspire, the main Inspire idea is accepted, but only basic
Inspire principles are defined. The next will be transposition of
the whole Inspire and Implementing rules as soon as they are
available into national regulations.
institutions. One of main Inspire principles is to avoid
duplication of data producing, what shows that some activities
will be necessary in this filed. Themes from Annex III are
mostly under responsibility of other institutions.
Inspire
Law on State Survey
and Real Estate
Cadastre
Annex
No. of
spatial data
themes
No. of spatial data
themes under SGA’s
responsibility
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9
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II
4
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Table 2. Inspire spatial data themes under SGA’s responsibility
4. CROATIAN SDI IN COMPARISON WITH
EUROPEAN SDI INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS
Therefore, the Law also define SDI institutional framework for
SDI establishment. The supreme SDI governing body is the SDI
Council appointed by the Croatian Government. The Council is
appointed by the Government and comprised of 15 members
coming from different ministries responsible for environment
protection and spatial planning, defence, land registry, transport
and communications, agriculture, forestry and water
management, science and education, culture, state
administration body responsible for e-govemment, state survey
and real property cadastre (NMCA), statistics, then Croatian
Hydrographic Institute, Croatian Geodetic Institute, geodetic
and geoinformatics economic community, IT economic
community as well as Croatian Chamber of Architects and Civil
Engineers. On the managerial level, there is the SDI Committee
appointed by the Council and consisting of three representatives
from the Council, two from SGA and heads of working groups.
On the operational level there are working groups. The SGA
acts as the Secretariat of the SDI Council, coordinates all SDI
bodies and provides technical support.
Term
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Law on State
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Estate Cadastre
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community
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Croatia
Date of entering
into force
May 2007
February 2007
No. of articles
26
11
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Annex I
9
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with Inspire
Annexes I and II
Annex II
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Annex III
21
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Figure 2. NSDI Institutional framework
Table 1. EU and Croatian SDI regulations
Spatial data themes defined in Inspire Annexes I and II are in
Croatia mostly under responsibility of the SGA (Table 2).
Definition of data themes in the Law are no so detailed
described and listed like in Inspire annexes, sometimes a term
from the Law, defined as NSDI data, covers several Inspire data
themes. Some of them, for example transport networks and
hydrography are available in SGA as well as other responsible
Mainly SDI initiatives in European Union are led by national
data producers such mapping agencies. On the other site there
are countries where SDIs are led by a council of ministries, a GI
association or a partnership of data users (Masser 2007). Where
will be Croatian SDI? According to the Law it should be led by
the Council with formal mandate on four-year period, but
coordination body is the SGA, national mapping and cadastre
agency.
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