Alexander Kotsev

alexander.kotsev@jrc.ec.europa.euwww.jrc.ec.europa.eu

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JRC Support for e-reporting of Air Quality Plans and Programs (H-K)

Overview and Lessons Learned

Single Data model for e-reporting

• Covers legally binding requirements of

• (AQ IPR, 2011/850/EU)

• INSPIRE (2007/2/EC)

• Fully integrated with other e-reporting data flows class AQD_Plans_general

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AQD_Measures

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• Collaborative product• Developed by JRC (migration to EEA foreseen in 2015)

• Conceptualized in close collaboration with EEA

• Volunteer test countries

• Major release (v 1.0) - beginning of August

• Open source solution, licensed under European Union

Public License – EUPL• https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/eupl

E-Reporting system: overview

E-Reporting system: characteristics

• Easy to use web interface• Bundled with generic software components

• Easy transfer to different architectures of reporting

authorities (optional)• Preload with data from previous years• Multilingual user interface• User access control and management subsystem• Ability to export IPR compliant xml• Extensible (beyond the scope of the pilot project)

Architecture for P&P e-reporting

Flexible deployment options• Centralized (JRC)

• http://inspireaq.jrc.ec.europa.eu/aqrsystem/

• Distributed (MS)• Source code on Git• Bundle + binary for deployment• Virtual drive (VMWare player, VirtualBox, XenServer)

Quality assurance

• Validation & constraint checking

• Validation against INSPIRE/AQD schema during:

Input (historic data)

Output (upon export of xml)

• Data entry controls

• In accordance with e-reporting model

• Displayed on “Save”

• DRAFT vs COMPLETE

• Testing

• Pilot countries feedback (from early stages)

Users

• Three levels of access

• EEA/JRC/ENV

• National administrators

• Users

• Users are managed by European Commission

Authentication System (ECAS)

• Current statistics

• 153 accounts (all three levels)

• “Plans and Programmes” national providers on EIONET

Progress (as of 27.01.2015)

Technical guidance

• JRC Technical report

• Pilot project overview

• Simple user guidelines

E-reporting

User management

Administration

System deployment

System compilation

Kotsev A., Smits P., Cyra L., Epure A., Francioli D., Belis C. Reporting of Air Quality Plans and Programs in Europe. Guidelines for INSPIRE compliant data transmission. EUR 26862. Luxembourg (Luxembourg): Publications Office of the European Union; 2014. JRC92045, doi: 10.2788/17921

Lessons learned

• AQ legislation (IPR) + INSPIRE = high complexity

• This can be overcome:

1. Transparent approach

2. Use of well established technology

3. Source code is open to all

4. Inclusion of the users from early stages of

development

5. “Hiding” the complexity behind an easy to use

interface

Discussion

• Usability of the data

“Human readable” versus “Machine readable” (e.g xml)

• Data modelling considerations

Domain specific data (90 %) + INSPIRE (10 %)

• Data transmission

“Push” versus “Pull (SOA)”

Thank you!