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11. Assessing the Impact of Public Sector Geographic Information
Pages 45-46

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... The INSPIRE directive covers 34 data themes necessary to support environmental policy and includes geographic, administrative, social, and environmental information.2 The directive came into force on May 15, 2007, and member states have until May 2009 to transpose the directive into national legislation, with implementation taking place over a 10-year period. There is a significant degree of synergy between the INSPIRE directive and the PSI directives, as the geographic and environmental information of the INSPIRE directive represents a significant portion of the total economic value of PSI, and the data themes of INSPIRE are primarily related to issues in the public sector.
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... Almost 80 percent of the costs were for human resources. The main benefits took the form of increased internal efficiency for public administrations (time saved in internal queries by technical staff, time saved in attending queries made by the public, and time saved in internal processes)
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