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| This section provides specific information about different European Union programmes, policies and directives relevant to the work and organisation of our members, the National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies. |
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- GMES:
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, the joint
initiative of the European
Commission and the European
Space Agency, designed to establish a European capacity
for the provision and use of operational information for
Global Monitoring of Environment and Security.
- INSPIRE:
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe, an initiative launched by the European Commission, to make available
relevant, harmonised and quality geographic information
to support formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
of Community policies with a territorial dimension or impact.
- eContentPlus:
a programme of the European Commission for the development
of multi-lingual content for innovative, on-line services
across the EU for the period 2005-2008.
- PSI:
Public Sector Information, the directive to establish a
minimum set of rules governing the commercial and non-commercial
exploitation of existing information held by the public
sector.
- WFD:
the Water Framework Directive
published by the European Commission in October 2000, to control
and protect the quality of all water bodies in Europe.
- Galileo:
Galileo will be Europe's own global navigation satellite
system, providing highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning
services under civilian control. It will be interoperable
with GPS and Glonass, the two other global satellite navigation
systems.
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