Spain - 2022: Country Fiche

There are hundreds agreements or conventions co-financed by the autonomous administrations and national organizations. These agreements usually are collaborationand institutional between national, regional anl local organizations. Many of these agreements are reflected in the National Cartographic System (SCN). Another good example is agreements between environmental organisations and departments of MAPA and MITECO.

National Cartographic System (SCN)

• Existence of big projects of collaborative data production and harmonisation under the umbrella of National Cartographic System (SCN), which include sharing of resulting data; the on-going production of georeferenced reference data increased the sharing of data between public admin. The web site of SCN has a list of public bodies collaborating in the production of geographic data products each year as a result of collaboration agreements with IGN Spain.
  • For example: The following national and regional organisations have collaborated in the capture of the orthoimagery: National Geographic Institute, Spanish Agrarian Guarantee Fund (FEGA), General Direction of Cadastre, Autonomous Communities of Aragon, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Valencian Community, Andalusia, Extremadura, Murcia, Galicia, Castile and León, Castile La Mancha, Asturias, Cantabria, Rioja, Navarre, Basque Country, Balearic Islands and Madrid.
• Final products are shared and published on NSDI network services under a CC BY 4.0 license.
  • Some examples of Spanish collaborative projects aimed at obtaining a full coverage of products considered as basic reference data and represent “Geospatial Reference Information Data Base (GRI)”: Aerial Orthophoto National Plan, PNOA - High resolution coverage of aerial orthophotos, digital elevation models, Spanish Land Cover Information System, SIOSE - Land cover information system, Transport networks, Hydrography..
• Official Geographic Information basemap, for use in displays with vector tiles technology is a project to develop an official vector tile service of the Spanish national territory will be offered based on official geographic information are generated by all Public Administrations, gathered in the Spanish National Cartographic System. The objective is to produce a distributed collection of multi-scale vector tiles services containing the geographical elements necessary for the representation of different cartographic products in of the Spanish territory and also in the global scope. https://sgtmapabaseigo.github.io/MapaBaseIGO/
• Some regions have signed collaboration agreements with all the municipalities in their territory.
• There is a wide sharing and reusing data culture. Some public bodies use to share geodata among them without any formal agreement.
• Sharing data for the public: in 2020, in a sampling of 90 public organisations, 28 % publish open data, 8 % publish semi-open data (not allowing commercial uses), 6 % closed data and 58 % do not declare the use conditions.
• For the data set that can be downloaded, only 400 % use a Creative Commons license or any other type license. A core reference data produced collaboratively can be downloaded under a CC BY 4.0 license in CNIG Download Centre web page.

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) and Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO)

• Directorate general for biodiversity, forests and desertification.
  • According to Law 42/2007, on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, the Public Administrations shall cooperate and collaborate in matters of conservation of natural heritage and biodiversity and shall provide each other with information to ensure compliance with the objectives of this Law. Likewise, among the inspiring principles mentioned in Law 43/2003 on Forests, is the collaboration and cooperation of the different Public Administrations in the elaboration and execution of their forestry policies. The duty of collaboration between Public Administrations is regulated in Law 40/2015 of which establishes that the Public Administrations must provide other Administrations with the information they require on the activity they carry out in the exercise of their own competences or which is necessary for citizens to have full access to the information relating to a matter.
• Directorate general for environmental quality and assessment
  • PRTR-España is the Spanish Register of Emissions and Pollutant Sources. It provides information to the public on the pollutant releases to air, water and land, and off-site transfers of wastes not only from the main industrial facilities but also emissions from other point and diffuse sources, according to the international (Kiev Protocol and Aarhus Convention), European (E-PRTR Regulation) and Spanish regulation (Real Decreto 508/2007 and its amendments). Information is available by facility and in aggregated way by industrial activity, pollutants and geographically. Note: The approximate number of consultations per year exceeds one million visitors, according to the counter available in the Register, which shows the relevance and dissemination of PRTR-Spain, both nationally and internationally.
    • The Aarhus Convention (2021 amendment to the Aarhus Regulation), (he European Union adopted an amendment to the Aarhus Regulation No. 1367/2006 to allow for better public scrutiny of EU acts affecting the environment. (octuber-2021)
  • Agreements with Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) and Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT)
• Spanish Agrarian Guarantee Fund O.A. (FEGA)
  • Agreements on matters related to geographic information with the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda.
  • Agreement with Directorate General for Cadastre for the exchange of information on agricultural land parcels.
  • Agreements with Canary and Catalonia for monitoring control work in the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
  • AAgreements with Andalusía, Aragón, Castiile-La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia and Valencian Community for the implementation of remote sensing field monitoring in the campaigns 2018-2020
  • Agreement between SIGPAC and the integrated management and control system coordination group approving the criteria (SIGC) for distribution of SIGPAC data and other geospatial information of the SIGC.
  • Participation in IACS data sharing established by DG AGRI

Property and land administration:

• In Spain, the Cadastre and the Property Rights Registry are two separate institutions with differentiated mandates and competences, both working in the domain of land administration. The Spanish Law 13/2015 implements an effective coordination of transactions executed by both institutions. The Cadastre, registries and notaries have worked together to design a technologically advanced model of institutional interaction for this coordination purpose based in the INSPIRE GML of the Cadastral Parcel and the position of the Buildings.

  Any modification of the physical characteristics of the cadastral parcels must be done taking as reference the Cadastral Cartography, that it is the unique official geographic representation of the cadastral parcels. Therefore the cadastre offers freely the INSPIRE GML of the parcels in several ways :WFS, ATOMS, embedded in the cadastral certificates or even through interactive tools in the Electronic Office of the Cadastre that provides, between other tools, cartographic viewer that allows access to all cadastral information and the parcel edition (INSPIRE GML) or a “Cadastral Editor” to use for the modification of the parcels.

  The citizens and the public authorities that work in the territory have the duty to communicate to the Cadastre any change of the parcel (segregation, union, new construction, etc.. ) or when the cadastral cartography does not sufficiently reflect the physical reality, procedures have been defined for updating the graphic data of the parcel involved through the use of alternative georeferenced graphic representations. These alternative representations are expressed also in the INSPIRE GML Cadastral Parcel format and are validated in the system providing a graphic validation report with the INSPIRE GML of the new parcels.

  In order to register a building in the Property Rights Registry, the georeferenced of its position is also required by the law 13/2015 and therefore we have done a step further, creating the mechanism to use for that the INSPIRE GML BU too.

  The INSPIRE GML of the graphic situation of the cadastral parcel as certified by the Directorate General for Cadastre is embedded in the cadastral certification and the graphic validation report. The Directorate ensures the authenticity and integrity of its contents. Both products are electronic documents, signed using a secure 16-digit verification code (CSV). This code unequivocally identifies the document in the Directorate General for Cadastre’s catalogue. The exchange between the various stakeholders requires only the 16-digit barcodes. This avoids the need to physically exchange computer files, allows the visualisation of the new representation without GIS tools and enables the automated capture of its contents, thus preventing possible transcription errors.

  The georeferencing of the parcels, expressed through the INSPIRE GML format of a cadastral parcel, is now widely used by all agents involved in property transactions in Spain. This is intended to give greater security to the data on the location, delimitation and surface area of the registered properties that are the subject of legal transactions. In this way we are enhancing interoperability between Directorate General for Cadastre and Property Rights Registry, simplifying administrative procedures and reducing costs.

References to INSPIRE or other relevant standards in procurement documents

• More and more national, regional and local organizations have realised that INSPIRE play a key role in the standardized way publication and their benefits, therefore more and more procurement documents in recent years, where references to INSPIRE or other relevant standards are made. These procurement documents are for national, regional and local organizations. (See https://contrataciondelestado.es).