PR - A framework directive for an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) is now a fact. The INSPIRE directive of European Parliament and Council was published on the 25th April in the Official Journal of the European Union and entered into effect on the 15 May 2007. In Annex I of this directive the cadastral parcel is mentioned as an important spatial data theme. While the cadastral parcel is briefly defined in Annex I (‘Areas defined by cadastral registers or equivalent’), a joint working group consisting of members of the Permanent Committee on Cadastre (PCC) and EuroGeographics’ expert group on Cadastre and Land Registry (ExgCLR) took the opportunity to specify this INSPIRE definition by investigating the relevant elements of a cadastral parcel that are already in place in European countries and that are linked to spatial data.

In order to do so, two questionnaires were issued between August 2005 and February 2006 in more than 25 European countries. Important elements related to the definition of a cadastral parcel were surveyed in the first questionnaire. The use of the cadastral parcel in society was the central theme of the second questionnaire.
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