The French experience of environmental data sharing. Why France supported the INSPIRE European directive

The context of the late 1990s When I arrived at the Ministry for the Environment in late 1998, my mission was to disseminate information and maps on natural and technological hazards on the web. The legal framework was designed by a 1989 law that gave every French citizen the right to be informed about the risks that concern himself. Nearly ten years later, its implementation was still barely begun. In the field of natural hazards, but also in others, some politicians were convinced of the im...