Implementation of the INSPIRE-Directive in Germany and Poland ? Legal point of view

Because of the transnational aspects and the general need to coordinate the conditions of access to, exchange and sharing of spatial information within the Community, it can only be sufficiently achieved at the Community level. Each Member State is obliged to implement the INSPIRE-Directive. In Germany the implementation procedure has to take place both on the federal and the Federal States level. Thus, good coordination of work and cooperation between the federation, Federal States and municipalities is essential. The federation and each of the federal states are together responsible for
the implementation of the INSPIRE with regards to its own public authorities. In Poland, as in other non-federal states, this directive has to be implemented only by passing a new law for the whole country. But the oft amended geodesy and cartography Act passed in the People?s Republic of Poland, which is in force till now, does not make that process easier. This paper presents the works on the implementation of the INSPIRE-Directive in the Federal Republic of Germany, on the federal and the Federal States level and compare them with regulations contained in a proposal of polish implementing Act.

[Source: Badowski, M., 2010. Implementation of the INSPIRE-Directive in Germany and Poland. In Gartner, G., and F.?Ortag (Eds.), Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe, Selected Papers of the 1st ICA Symposium on Cartography for Central and Eastern Europe, Springer Berlin Heidelberg]