INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata have been made publicly available today. Comments on this draft are restricted to registered Spatial Data Interest Communities and Legally Mandated Organizations ONLY. Their contact persons have been notified on the relevant procedure. A revised draft open to public comments will be made available towards the end of June 2007. Based on all the comments received, the Commission will submit a proposal for metadata implementing rules to the regulatory committee envisaged by the Directive towards the end of 2007 with a view to have them adopted by March 2008.

1. INSPIRE Draft Metadata Implementing Rules


2. Agreed text of the Directive


3. D 1.2: Analysis of reference material submitted by SDICs/LMOs.


4. Results of the INSPIRE metadata survey 2006