The Working Group for High-Value Datasets in the NSDI has been established

On 19 January 2026, by the Decision of the President of the Council of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), the Director General of the State Geodetic Administration, Antonio Šustić, the Working Group for High-Value Datasets in the NSDI was established.

This Working Group was established with the aim of ensuring the effective and efficient use of the NSDI for the purpose of identifying high-value datasets in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use, as well as for connecting the NSDI Metadata Catalogue with the Open Data Portal of the Republic of Croatia. The main tasks of the Working Group are:
 

• analysis of the status of high-value spatial datasets in the NSDI,
• analysis of examples of good practice at the European Union level for marking high-value datasets,
• analysis of the possibilities for connecting the NSDI Metadata Catalogue with the Open Data Portal.

The members of the working group are representatives of public authorities that have high-value datasets in their jurisdiction, and the planned duration of the working group's work is until December 1, 2026.