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Notes/Actions

Welcome and approval of the agenda 

• The agenda was approved without modifications.
  

Minutes of the previous meeting (for discussion and agreement)

• The minutes of the previous meeting were approved without additional change proposals. Some open actions for MIG-T members are still open and relevant.
  

MIWP 2021-2024 Actions

• 1.1 Towards a digital ecosystem for the environment and sustainability
• 2.1 Need driven data prioritisation 
• 2.2 Roadmap for priority-driven implementation 
  • Debriefing from the MIG meeting
• 2.3 Simplification of INSPIRE Implementation
  • 2.3.2 Simplification of data-service linking 

• The JRC, ENV and EEA presented the current status of actions and future planned work.

•  Within the context of Action 2.2, ENV to share the summary of the mini-workshops, held during the 13th MIG meeting with the MIG-T members.
  

MIWP 2021-2024 Actions (continued)

• 2.3 Simplification of INSPIRE Implementation
  • 2.3.1 Governance of INSPIRE Artefacts 

Discussion and voting on change proposals of INSPIRE artefacts

• Overview of change proposals for INSPIRE Schemas and Technical Guidelines (Helpdesk facilitators)
• Discussion and approval with sli.do
  • Change proposals on TGs
  • Change proposals on Schemas

• Updates to the GitHub repositories for schemas and TGs are presented and the governance process is summarised.
• The change proposals for schemas and for TGs subject to scrutiny by the MIG-T (selected by the sub-group of Action 2.3.1 during the meeting on 1/7/2021) were presented by the helpdesk facilitators.
• After the discussion, MIG-T members (one per country) voted on the proposals using sli.do. All proposals were accepted with no objections (see the results of the slido poll).
• Change proposals will now be assessed by the MIG, which is the next actor in accordance with the new governance process. The two-week scrutiny period for the MIG started on July 12 and will run until July 26, 2021.

•  MS are encouraged to nominate additional members for Action 2.3.1 on the 'Governance of INSPIRE artefacts'.

GeoPackage as INSPIRE data encoding (EEA, DK)

• The status of GeoPackage as an INSPIRE data encoding was presented by the EEA (with additional input from DK and NL).

• Updates from ISO/TC211 were presented by DK. The activities of the TC are, similar to INSPIRE, being migrated to GitHub. MIG-T members are encouraged to start following the TC211 space.

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Notes/Actions

Open Maps for Europe (Nathalie Delattre, EuroGeographics)

• The status of the CEF Project Open Maps for Europe coordinated by EuroGeographics was presented.

Updates on central INSPIRE components 1/2 (JRC)

• Geoportal
  • State-of-play (JRC)
  • Redesigned backend (GeoCat)
  • New frontend for HVD (JRC)

• sli.do was used to gather feedback on the MIG-T meetings format. Overall, the vast majority of MIG-T members confirms that the meeting format, scope and length are appropriate (see the results of the slido poll).
• The feedback collected will be used for improving future meetings.

•  JRC to present a summary of the feedback and propose approach(es) for improving the way in which the regular MIG-T meetings are organised.
  

Update on Commission initiatives 

• GreenData4All & High-value datasets (ENV)
• Development of pan-European reference data sets (ESTAT)
• INSPIRE Virtual conference 2021 (JRC)
• GAIA-X workshop (ENV, JRC, BKG)
• IACS data sharing clinic (JRC)

• Status an future plans for several Commission initiatives were presented.