Final text of INSPIRE approved following the conciliation process

The INSPIRE Clock starts ticking.

The final text for the INSPIRE Directive was approved in Brussels. This news was just received via the EUROGI newschain: specifically via Bruce McCormack, Conveyor of EUROGI WAG International Affairs. Roger Longhorn added important notices including: "this is the final text approved by the European Parliament and Council of Minsters, following the conciliation
process. The adoption of the Directive is an agenda item for theEuropean Parliament's meeting of 17 February 2007 in Strasbourg. "

The close range timetable of the follow-on actions include the official translations into the official EU languages and the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union probably about May. Meantime the discussion draft of some of the Implementation Rules will be circulated among the LMOs and SDICs for comments and remarks .

The full approved text in English is available here: http://www.fomi.hu/hunagi/pdf/2004/InspireEN.pdf