Interoperability Approaches for environmental data sharing and reuse in the European Union
Data Interoperability is essential to effective usage of data and to building a working data economy for public and private stakeholders across the European Union. Achieving interoperability requires agreement and substantial investments. Over time, there have been a wide range of policy initiatives to improve interoperability, such as sector-specific regulations like INSPIRE –environmental purpose driven – or, more recently, general legal frameworks like the Interoperable Europe Act. However, efforts and benefits were not always balanced optimally, which lead to incomplete, heterogeneous or delayed interoperability.
This report provides a framework to determine what kind of policies and approaches effectively contribute to achieving data interoperability taking into account the lessons learnt from past data sharing initiatives, with a focus on high-value datasets from the geospatial and environmental domain. Furthermore, it includes a set of prospective interoperability approaches that could potentially be applied to Common European Data Spaces, but which are mainly proposed for their consideration in the Green Deal Data Space.
REITZ Thorsten;
ESCRIU Jordi;
MINGHINI Marco;
2025-11-17
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC138573
978-92-68-32201-7 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 40478,
OP KJ-01-25-505-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC138573,
10.2760/8313216 (online),
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