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Thursday, May 31, 2007

HUNAGI Secretary General invited for a Talk to the Ministry of Environment and Water

Messrs Pál Bozó (l) and Dezső Mikus in the UNEP GRID Budapest Office. Image: HUNAGI Visuals resource, 2007

Pál Bozó, Head of the Informatics Division and UNEP GRID in Budapest received for a talk the SG of HUNAGI, acting head of UNSDI HUCO. The issues addressed were the state of the art and bottlenecks in geospatial data availability and access, the INSPIRE-related tasks and measures to be taken, the role of civil organisations, specificaly the involvement of HUNAGI. A need for closer cooperation was mutually recognised and the concept will be elaborated in the coming weeks. The talk was participated by Mr. Dezső Mikus, desk officer for INSPIRE in MoEW too.