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Reporting and monitoring under the environmental acquis is a priority use case for the development of pan-European information products.

Among the things INSPIRE implementers can do to increase the quality of their INSPIRE datasets, the correct use of voidable elements deserves a special mention. The concept of voidable could generate confusion in the INSPIRE implementer, who could be tempted by the erroneous equivalence ‘voidable = optional to provide’.  

Code lists are used extensively in the INSPIRE data models. They can be classified according to their governance (INSPIRE governed vs externally governed) and their extensibility: