Species observation data
Empowerment of SINP regional platforms

What is regional empowerment?

The empowerment of the regional platforms of the information system of the national natural heritage inventory (SINP) reflects the need to identify the regional systems that sets up the SINP.

Empowerment is a constructive and incentive approach allowing collective implementation of the SINP. It is granted for a fixed period of time, defined during the examination of the file submitted by the platform, depending on the information provided. The authorization may be conditional and accompanied by recommendations. It is reviewed periodically, every 3 years at the most.

The accreditation file is carried by the DEAL / DREAL / DRIEE and, if necessary, its co-pilot. It is built at regional level in a partnership way.
The regional platforms are thus empowered by an empowerment procedure following the submission of a file.

The evaluation of the file is carried out by an empowerment committee which has the mandate to examine requests.

The empowerment committee, led by the Water and Biodiversity Department, is composed of the following representatives:

  • Direction de l'Eau de la Biodiversité (DEB)
  • SINP pilots in the regions
  • COPIL SINP members in the regions
  • Unité de service PatriNat (PatriNat)
  • Office français de la biodiversité (OFB)

The empowerment currently only concerns the SINP regional platforms for the theme "taxon occurrence" (observation data on species).

How to define a SINP regional platform?

The SINP regional platform is the empowered regional mechanism that ensures the animation of stakeholder networks and is based on tools that allow data sharing according to the principles of the SINP protocol.

This definition emphasizes the fact:

  • that there is only one SINP regional platform per region;
  • that it must be empowered;
  • that it is made up of the actors and tools that make it up;
  • that one of its main objectives is data sharing;
  • that it is the principles of the SINP that frame this sharing.

What are the criteria to be qualified?

The empowerment file contains 12 criteria:

  • The platform has formalized governance through committee (s).
  • The platform has set up a regional charter compatible with the SINP protocol.
  • The organizational (animation, coordination) and technical (tools) sustainability of the platform is ensured.
  • The platform coordinates a network of actors on the whole region and on different taxonomic groups.
  • The platform integrates data from regional and sub-regional producers by providing tools and services to its actors
  • The platform ensures the production, management and provision of metadata in the SINP.
  • The platform manages attributes corresponding to those of the SINP standards and takes into account the repositories used in the SINP
  • The platform exchanges its data with the national platform (INPN).
  • The platform respects the conditions of communication and dissemination of data defined for the SINP, in particular the management of sensitive data.
  • The platform ensures the traceability of data in connection with data producers
  • The platform organizes the scientific validation of the data
  • The platform contributes to the promotion and referencing of SINP organizations.

List of empowered platforms

Region Date of issue of empowerment Duration of empowerment Tools Organization in charge Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or poles Logo
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur March 25, 2023 2 years Framework tool CBNMED/CBNA/CBNC, Framework tool CEN PACA, Silene Nature, Silene Expert, Silene Projet, Silene.eu Framework tool DREAL Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or poles SILENE
Centre-Val de Loire August 20, 2019 2 years
Extended to August 20, 2023
Application Métadonnées MNHN, FLORA, GINCO DREAL Centre-Val de Loire Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or poles GINCO/Geonature
La Réunion March 14, 2019 3 years
Extended to March 14, 2023
Application INPN de métadonnées, Borbonica, Kit de saisie, Outil des têtes de réseau DEAL La Réunion Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or poles Borbonica
Île-de-France November 25, 2020 2 years
Extended to November 25, 2023
GeoNat'ÎdF, FLORA DRIEE Île-de-France Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or poles
Platforms or poles
CBNBP
GeoNat'ÎdF
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes November 25, 2020 2 years
Extended to November 25, 2023
Observatoire de la biodiversité in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes DREAL Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or poles Observatoire de la biodiversité en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Observatoire de la biodiversité en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté September 16, 2021 2 years Sigogne Biodiversity Geo-visualiser and Leaders' Tools (CBNFC-ORI, CBNBP, SHNA-OFAB, LPO FC, LPO 21/71, LPO 89, CPEP ESC, OFB) DREAL Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or poles Sigogne Sigogne Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Occitanie September 16, 2021 2 years GeoNature Platform DREAL Occitanie Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or poles Atlas régional du SINP Occitanie
Platforms or poles Pôles thématiques
Préfet de la région Occitanie
Nouvelle-Aquitaine September 16, 2021 3 years Observatoire FAUNA
CBN Sud-Atlantique - OBV-NA
DREAL Nouvelle-Aquitaine Download the file Presentation of the system Platforms or polesObservatoire de la biodiversité végétale Pôle Flore-Fonge-Habitats
Platforms or poles Fauna Pôle faune
Platforms or poles Réserve naturelle géologique de Saucats-La Brède
Observatoire de la biodiversité végétale Pôle Flore-Fonge-Habitats
Fauna Pôle faune
Réserve naturelle géologique de Saucats-La Brède

Description of the device
Governance is in place and functioning, with more than 90 structures participating and meeting annually, an increase of about 30 since the first accreditation.
The visualization and the provision of data is ensured by tools developed in 2020 under GeoNature: Silene Nature and Silene Expert put in production in March 2021. The provision of data is operational, supervised and monitored.
More than 12.4 million fauna and flora data can be consulted in March 2023, which is more than double compared to the first habilitation.

Date of issue of empowerment
March 25, 2023

Duration of empowerment
2 years

Tools
Framework tool CBNMED/CBNA/CBNC, Framework tool CEN PACA, Silene Nature, Silene Expert, Silene Projet, Silene.eu

Organization in charge
Framework tool DREAL Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Presentation of the system

Download the file

Platforms or poles
SILENE

Description of the device
The implementation of the SINP in the Centre-Val de Loire region took shape in 2015 with the organization of the local SINP / ORB governance (piloting and animation) and the development of the main SINP tools: data standard, sensitive data repository, regional charter.
Regional facilitation to generate SINP membership began in 2016 and continues today. The main producers of naturalist data in the region adhere to the regional charter.
The release of the GINCO tool in 2017 made most of the data streams in the charter functional for the taxon occurrence part.
However, important work remains to be done, notably on the scientific validation of fauna data and the integration of habitat data.

Date of issue of empowerment
August 20, 2019

Duration of empowerment
2 years
Extended to August 20, 2023

Tools
Application Métadonnées MNHN, FLORA, GINCO

Organization in charge
DREAL Centre-Val de Loire
Presentation of the system

Download the file

Platforms or poles
GINCO/Geonature

Description of the device
The computer tools (Borbonica data distribution platform) and methodological tools (sensitive data repository, validation protocol) are operational. The framework for data sharing is formalized in a regional charter. The data exchanges are effective since the beginning of 2018.

Date of issue of empowerment
March 14, 2019

Duration of empowerment
3 years
Extended to March 14, 2023

Tools
Application INPN de métadonnées, Borbonica, Kit de saisie, Outil des têtes de réseau

Organization in charge
DEAL La Réunion
Presentation of the system

Download the file

Platforms or poles
Borbonica

Description of the device
Steering by the DRIEE with co-steering by the Region is in place, and a project team ensures coordinated animation and implementation of the SINP at the regional level (DRIEE, Region, ARB-ECdF team, CBNBP). The operational team of the ARB was entrusted with the transversal animation of the network of actors and the implementation, the 2 regional databases (fauna and flora) are administered (ARB and CBNBP) and fed with data shared by a large and growing number of data producers, steering bodies and/or monitoring of the functioning of the data entry, management, sharing and dissemination tools (GeoNat'ÎdF, FLORA and related tools) work.
It should be noted that, in spite of a real dynamic of the actors around the tools and the sharing of data through these tools, a regional monitoring committee (CSR) dedicated to the SINP is still missing and should be set up soon. In addition, the CSRPN is currently not specifically solicited due to the lack of a specific identified need, but is kept informed of the current dynamics and can be solicited if necessary.

Date of issue of empowerment
November 25, 2020

Duration of empowerment
2 years
Extended to November 25, 2023

Tools
GeoNat'ÎdF, FLORA

Organization in charge
DRIEE Île-de-France
Presentation of the system

Download the file

Platforms or poles
CBNBP   GeoNat'ÎdF

Description of the device
By a joint will of the DREAL and the Regional Council, the SINP Auvergne-Rhine-Alpes started in 2007 by the creation of the PIFH (PIFH) on the former Rhone-Alpes region. This PIFH is based on a Charter signed by the DREAL, the Région and the Départements in February 2013. The network of the PIFH counts in October 2018, 77 adherent structures and many partner structures but not adherent (engineering offices notably). The PIFH network counts in October 2018, 77 member structures and many partner structures but not members (engineering offices in particular).
This Charter has just been updated to comply with the SINP protocol. The Pole extends from now on to the Auvergne territory. Recently, the PIFH also concerns the fungus and the lichens. A PIFH invertebrates is in the course of deployment. The dynamics on the thematic of the flora is well in place, the network of the PIFH is active and the data exchanges function.
Concerning the regional governance of the SINP, discussions are in progress and aim to consolidate a common position (DREAL, Regional Council and OFB) during the year 2019, with the ambition of deploying a centralizing computer platform under GeoNature.

Date of issue of empowerment
November 25, 2020

Duration of empowerment
2 years
Extended to November 25, 2023

Tools
Observatoire de la biodiversité in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Organization in charge
DREAL Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Presentation of the system

Download the file

Platforms or poles
Observatoire de la biodiversité en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Description of the device
The SINP is structured around the platform and the Sigogne BFC collective which co-manages it with the DREAL.

Sigogne BFC has the status of an association. The members are the leaders who pilot and animate the devices and networks on their own themes and territories of competence.

The animation times of the platform are based on :

  • The Board of Directors, which ratifies the technical decisions and the action programme.
  • The technical committee, which includes the member companies, the permanent guests, the producers of data or holders of methodological know-how, the departments, the universities, and any other organisation whose presence has been validated by the administration collective. It guides the decisions and makes proposals to the administrative collective.
  • The regional monitoring committee, made up of members of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comtonne Information System Partnership Charter, monitors the SINP for the regional organisation, the implementation of the SINP functions and support for members. The DREAL leads the organisation of this committee.
  • The CSRPN is involved in all major decisions (validation of the sensitive data repository, data validation circuit, invitation to working groups, etc.).

Date of issue of empowerment
September 16, 2021

Duration of empowerment
2 years

Tools
Sigogne Biodiversity Geo-visualiser and Leaders' Tools (CBNFC-ORI, CBNBP, SHNA-OFAB, LPO FC, LPO 21/71, LPO 89, CPEP ESC, OFB)

Organization in charge
DREAL Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Presentation of the system

Download the file

Platforms or poles
Sigogne Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Description of the device
The DREAL Occitanie initiated in 2017 the setting up of an Natural Heritage Inventory Information System in Occitania as an extension of the existing SINPs in the former Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrenees regions, as an extension of the national SINP. It is part of the Regional Biodiversity Observatory, carried by the Regional Biodiversity Agency.

The governance of the SINP is operational at the level of the new Occitanie region since 2019.

3,384 million fauna and flora data are currently loaded on the regional platform (GeoNature tool). However, 4,580 million data are available, the difference corresponding to data put into the regional source format but not yet transferred to GeoNature (figures as at 15/12/2020).

Data inputs are steadily increasing and approaching the completeness of current knowledge for some taxonomic groups.

Date of issue of empowerment
September 16, 2021

Duration of empowerment
2 years

Tools
GeoNature Platform

Organization in charge
DREAL Occitanie
Presentation of the system

Download the file

Platforms or poles
Atlas régional du SINP Occitanie
Préfet de la région Occitanie

Description of the device
The governance of the system is in place and functional. Co-piloting is ensured by the State (DREAL/OFB/Water Agencies) and regional exchange platforms and by the preparation meetings of the SINP management team.

The Regional Monitoring Committee (CSR) is provided by the Regional Biodiversity Committee (CRB) and its sub-committee on Strategies.

The SINP management team is part of a collaborative and partnership-based approach. It includes the main regional or ex-regional associations that produce data.

The regional SINP centres lead the networks of data producers.

Date of issue of empowerment
September 16, 2021

Duration of empowerment
3 years

Tools
Observatoire FAUNA
CBN Sud-Atlantique - OBV-NA

Organization in charge
DREAL Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Presentation of the system

Download the file

Platforms or poles
Observatoire de la biodiversité végétale Pôle Flore-Fonge-Habitats
Observatoire de la biodiversité végétale Pôle Flore-Fonge-Habitats
Fauna Pôle faune
Fauna Pôle faune
Réserve naturelle géologique de Saucats-La Brède
Réserve naturelle géologique de Saucats-La Brède