The INSPIRE Directive requires actions from the EU member states and also has direct implications on the countries in the neighbourhood of the EU, regardless whether they are candidate countries or not. Preconditions for the EU membership, to which actually all the countries of Western Balkan (WB) countries aspire is their administrative capacity to incorporate the EU acquis, to fulfill the adopted standards and to execute the assumed obligations. INSPIRE Directive is just one but very important piece of legislation in environmental acquis and is a part of negotiation processes between European Commission and candidate countries. This report summarizes on-going initiatives and activities in the WB countries to develop a National Spatial Data Infrastructures following the principles and provisions of the INSPIRE Directive. It also gives an overview of different JRC activities in the support of INSPIRE implementation in the WB.

CETL Vlado;  TOTH Katalin;  ABRAMIC Andrej;  SMITS Paul; 

2014-01-06

Publications Office of the European Union

JRC86293

978-92-79-34918-8,   

1831-9424,   

EUR 26392,    OP LB-NA-26392-EN-N,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC86293,   

10.2788/49715,