Regards
Roger Longhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geo-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
For what it is worth, while at the 12th EC GI&GIS Workshop in Innsbruck
last week, Peter Wicks of DG ENV, who was presented as looking after the
"policy aspects" of INSPIRE, repeated more than once that "INSPIRE will
be adopted in 2006.....under the conciliation procedure.....due to some
'intelligent compromising' ..." one assumes on the side of the
Commission in regard to its current public opposition to the wording of
the Council vesion of the text. This was seen to be a 'good thing' by
the majority of the 190+ attendees, which included most of the INSPIRE
Expert Group (who met prior to the workshop for INSPIRE Drafting Team
updates - no deliverables were forthcoming from the DTs, for which the
work schedule is running "approximately 6 months behind schedule"
according to the EC Consolidation Team spokesperson).
