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EuroGeographics

General Information

Identification Code: 51080067776-74
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: AISBL (International non-profit association in Belgium)
Registration Category: Other organisations, public or mixed entities
Registration Date: 1/19/2012
Last Update: 3/22/2024
EP Accredited Number: 2

Mission & Interests

Goals: EuroGeographics is an independent international not-for-profit organisation representing Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities. We believe in a society empowered by the use of trusted geospatial services from these official national sources. Our strength lies in our extensive membership and we are proud to represent around 90% of the official bodies responsible for geodetic surveying, topographic mapping, cadastral surveys and land registration in geographical Europe. EuroGeographics supports the public good by representing our members’ interests, maintaining networks that help our members improve their capabilities and role, and by facilitating access to and use of our members’ geospatial data and services. By providing a single point of contact, we enable government, business and citizens to benefit from their collective expertise, products and services.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Borders and security
  • Business and industry
  • Climate action
  • Communication
  • Digital economy and society
  • Education and training
  • Energy
  • Enlargement
  • Environment
  • European neighbourhood policy
  • Humanitarian aid and civil protection
  • International co-operation and development
  • Research and innovation
  • Single market
  • Trans-European Networks
  • Transport
Levels of Interest:
  • global
  • sub-national
  • european
  • national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: European Strategy for Data is considered by our members as an important development of the digital single market and we look forward to the very real contribution in all stages of the development that can make to the Strategy’s success. Open data and Public Sector Information Directive: our members actively promote the re-use of the open data they provide in the wider public interest and over time have created a well-established system of inter-related uses and users of both, national, and pan-European levels. We want to have an active role in the forthcoming Implementation assessment. Implementing Act on High Value Datasets: Our members are holders of a significant number of High Value Datasets; play an important role in creating a single market for data and are keen to effectively implement this Regulation and increase the availability of their data in the single market. Believe that this goal can only be achieved as a joint vision and action of policymakers, data holders and data users. We hope that our community will be consulted while assessing the need for the extension of the High Value Dataset list. Our current project Open Maps for Europe 2 provides a foundation for future pan-European high-value datasets. It is developing a new production process and technical specification for free-to-use, edge-matched, interoperable data under a single open licence to create a prototype dataset covering 10 countries. Open Maps for Europe 2, co-funded by the European Union, advances the data-sharing tools needed to deliver free-flowing, interoperable data for the single market. It saves users time, effort and resources by providing harmonised data from multiple countries through one portal and supports the implementation of the Open Data and reuse of the Public Sector Information Directive by re-using techniques nationally and sharing good practices. Green Data For All initiative: Our members have made significant investments to implement the INSPIRE Directive which, however, was not easy. They have worked, with the support of the European Commission's funds, to advance harmonisation beyond and now look forward to sharing lessons learned toward contribution to the future Green Deal data space with our data as a critical component for environment policy deployment and implementation. We shall be active during the INSPIRE revision period. The European Space programme: EuroGeographics actively supports the Copernicus component of the European Space Programme by strengthening cooperation with European Environment Agency to improve access to our members' data. Our partnership is creating, maintaining, and implementing a Framework License agreement and exploring solutions for providing full, free, and open access to geospatial data for the Copernicus programme. By ensuring a clear mutual understanding of the Copernicus in-situ requirements and the information produced by our members, it will be easier than ever before for the services to use authoritative geospatial datasets. Europe’s Digital Decade: 2030 digital targets and digital principles - Authoritative public sector data, in our case geospatial data, is a key building block for digital transformation, a block which supports applied research and innovation and the range of legal, fiscal, security and other public administrative purposes. Artificial Intelligence Act: Our members are both users and suppliers of artificial intelligence. Machine learning is already in use by many of our members. Data Act: Data sharing is our long-standing tradition and business. Business to Government data sharing as established by the Data Act will support our effectiveness during crises and disasters. Data Governance Act is of great interest to our members wishing to further open data protected under the national regime. The Interoperable Europe Act will support our cross-border public services thus we appreciate an established community in which we have an active role.
Communication Activities: Information Management: Our members’ role in the provision of authoritative geospatial data and services is increasingly important, and even critical, in helping to address the key regional and global challenges facing the world today – such as climate change, sustainable development, famine, pandemic diseases and increased global urbanisation. We regularly publicised external Newsletters, press releases and use cases. In October 2023 we have organised the Parliament event in Strasbourg to demonstrate the role of official national geospatial data in the implementation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The event welcomes debate with our stakeholders from the European Parliament and builds on the successful Maps for a Data-Driven Europe event held last year. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023 Special Edition highlights data challenges, calls for more inclusive data for development, and states the need to strengthen coordination within national data ecosystems. The United Nations-endorsed Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, which is being implemented by many of our members, helps to address these issues. The EuroGeographics-led project, Open Maps For Europe 2 supports the ambitions of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework by aligning the technical specifications for large-scale open data with the core recommendations for content proposed by the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Initiative. Internationally, EuroGeographics actively supports and contributes to the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Initiative as an Observer Organisation. We are also a permanent member of the Europe Executive Committee, for which we provide the secretariat. The United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Initiative raises awareness of the important contribution that geospatial information plays in reporting and monitoring progress towards achieving the sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda, and in support of the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction and the Paris Agreement on climate change. European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registry Authorities have an important role to play in this global initiative and therefore it is important that our members’ distinctive voice and interests are heard in the development of its policy. EuroGeographics is therefore committed to representing members’ interests regarding these issues. To do this, we assert our own view and position to help form, communicate and implement Global policy. In particular, our efforts are focused on avoiding duplication and to emphasise the complementarity of our two very different organisations. EuroGeographics members participate in a number of other regional and international collaborative groups, such as the Arctic Spatial Data Infrastructure, regional collaborations within the Western Balkans, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. We continue to represent our Members’ interests and promote their role through these initiatives and, where practical, support them through our participation at conferences, workshops and other meetings. We also organise external events, workshops with Universities and other International organisations such as the European Spatial Data Research network. The 2023 Artificial Intelligence workshop was organised by not-for-profit organisations, EuroGeographics, and the European Spatial Data Research network that links National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies with Research Institutes and Universities. It continued the conversation of Artificial Intelligence within the context of our members from previous events and brought together producers, users, academia and software suppliers to debate spatial data quality, with a particular focus on the impact of new technologies.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Rue du Nord, 76
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office

Address: Rue du Nord, 76
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: Open Maps for Europe 2 project, Project: 101100625 — OME2 — DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-02

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 5
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 1
Members: 8
Members F T E: 2

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: State Authority for Geospatial Information (Albania), State Cadastral Agency (Albania), Cadastre Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armenia), Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (Austria), The State Cadastre and Registry of Real Estate (Azerbaijan) State Committee on Property Issues of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan) State Committee on Property of the Republic of Belarus (Belarus) National Geographic Institute (Belgium), General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (Belgium), Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property Affairs (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Republic Authority for Geodetic & Property Affairs (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Republic of Srpska), Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Agency (Bulgaria), State Geodetic Administration (Croatia), Cyprus Department of Lands and Surveys (Cyprus), Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (Czech Republic), Danish Geodata Agency (Denmark), Agency for Data Supply and Infrastructure (Denmark) Estonian Land Board (Estonia), National Land Survey (Finland), National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (France), Public Finances General Directorate (DGFiP) – Cadastral Agency (GF-3A) (France) Agency of Real Estate Cadastre (North Macedonia), National Agency of Public Registry (Georgia), Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Germany), Working Committee of the Surveying Authorities of the Laender of Federal Republic of Germany, His Majesty's Land Registry (England & Wales), Ordnance Survey (Great Britain), Registers of Scotland (Great Britain), Hellenic Cadastre (Greece), Hellenic Military Geographical Service (Greece), Lechner Non-profit Ltd (Hungary), National Land Survey of Iceland, Tailte Éireann, Ireland, Italian Geographic Military Institute, Revenue Agency (Italy) Kosovo Cadastral Agency (Kosovo*), State Land Service (Latvia), Latvian Geospatial Information Agency, National Land Service under the Ministry of Environment (Lithuania), State Enterprise Centre of Registers (Lithuania), Administration of the Cadastre and Topography (Luxembourg), Malta Planning Authority, Malta Land Registry, Agency for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (Moldova), Cadastre and state property administration (Montenegro) Land and Property Services (Northern Ireland), Norwegian Mapping Authority (Norway) Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (Poland), Directorate General for Territory (Portugal), National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (Romania), Republic Geodetic Authority (Serbia), Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority of the Slovak Republic, Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, National Geographic Institute (Spain), General Directorate for the Cadastre (Spain), Territorial Commission of the Geographic High Council (Spain) The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority Federal Office of Topography (Switzerland), Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (The Netherlands), General Directorate of Mapping (Turkey), State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (Ukraine)
Organisation Members: EuroGeographics works with a number of strategic partners to achieve our Vision and Mission including: UN-GGIM: Europe GEO - The Group on Earth Observations EEA – European Environment Agency EUREF - a sub-commission of the International Association of Geodesy. EuroSDR - European Spatial Data Research. WPLA - Working Party on Land Administration. PCC - The Permanent Commission on Cadastre. EUROGI - European organization for geographic information. EuroGeoSurveys - The association of European National Geological Surveys.