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State Authority for Geospatial Information (ASIG), represented by Mr. Claudio Çollaku, Director of the National GIS and Geoportal Directorate and Ivis Noçka, Director of the Research, Development and Innovation Directorate, participated in the Bilateral Screening-Chapter 27, on the Environment and climate changes, which is taking place in Brussels on 19-23 June 2023.
The INSPIRE Directive, 2007/2/EC aligned by law no. 72/2012, “On the Organization and Operation of the National Infrastructure of Geospatial Information in the Republic of Albania”, is part of the sub-chapter Horizontal Legislation, of Chapter 27. Mr Çollaku presented at this meeting the steps taken to approximate legislation and implement the INSPIRE Directive in Albania.
He made a detailed presentation of the entire progress of this process, starting with the geoinformation standards approved by the Decision of the Council of Ministers, for 31 of the 35 topics of Article 11 of Law No. 72/2012, the work done for the implementation of these standards, cooperation and support for the public authority responsible for geoinformation, as well as the essential role that ASIG’s international collaborators had in the smooth running of this process. Mr Çollaku also presented the services offered in the National Geoportal of ASIG, the geospatial information that is enabled in this geoportal as well as the ever increasing number of its users.
At the end of the presentation were presented the plans and objectives that ASIG has in the future for developing the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.
