A meghallgatásra 2013 decembere és 2014 februárja között került sor. A részvételi lehetőséget HUNAGI február 15-én tette közzé. A közel 700 válaszadó megoszlására, továbbá az INSPIRE adatkörök használatára vonatkozó statisztikákat is tartalmazó de a nehézségekre is rámutató anyag itt érhető el: http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/reports/consultations/INSPIRE_Public_Consultation_Report_final.pdf
A Max Craglia, Elena Roglia, Robert Tomas által készített dokumentum vezetői összefoglalója a következő megállapításokat tartalmazza:
"The key messages from the public consultation are:
• INSPIRE is starting to work and address the key barriers identified at the outset of this initiative that prevented the sharing and use of the spatial information needed to
support environmental policies and policies affecting the environment.
• Most progress has been done in documenting data, and making such data discoverable and viewable through web services. There are however delays, particularly for Annex I and II data that should all have become available by the time of the survey. Delays are also present for Annex III, both for completing the
metadata and for making data available via download services.
• The area of greater concern is the delay by the Member States in putting in place measures necessary to remove obstacles to the sharing of data at the point of use among public administrations. Only about half of the data producers indicated that such policy measure had been put in place in their organisation, and this was felt by users still finding data policy as a major barrier. Taking into consideration that such measures should have been in place since 2009, this delay is clearly significant.
• Improving communication, and sharing of best practice, reducing as far as possible complexity of technical specifications, and improving coordination are key suggested changes.
• There was almost unanimous view across all participants in the public consultation that the objectives of INSPIRE of making spatial data and services more easily shared and used are still as pertinent as ever.
• INSPIRE is delivering benefits to public administrations through improved data management processes and increased skills/competences in managing and publishing geographic information and related services."
