The National INSPIRE geoportal http://geoportal.gov.cz is project is successfully aiming towards its end, the new data sharing module will be available shortly. It will handle data access, provisioning and licensing among national and European institutions in both horizontal and vertical level. Members of the INSPIRE Coordination Committee forming the national coordinating and steering body will gather on October 5^th to discuss the status of INSPIRE activities and plans for the future.Content experts in the domains of Annex II and Annex III datasets are being informed, that their input would be very much welcome towards the end of the year to improve the quality of the official Czech translation of the Regulation documents once they are made available by the EC.
CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency together with SAZP, Slovak Environmental Agency, are organizing the 1^st Joint CZ – SK INSPIRE Conference (5^th CZ INSPIRE conference).
The event will be held on 27^th – 28^th November in Pruhonice near Prague. Community of SDI and thematic domain experts from public and private sector will have an opportunity to meet, discuss current activities and exchange experience. Besides other presentations, smeSpire workshop will be organized to inform the audience about the smeSpire project and its aim. All the INSPIRE related information from the Czech Republic are available on a dedicated INSPIRE website http://inspire.gov.cz.