This Regulation sets out the requirements for the creation and maintenance of metadata for spatial data sets, spatial data set series and spatial data services corresponding to the themes listed in F1Annexes 1, 2 and 3.

For the purposes of this Regulation, in addition to the definitions laid down in F2the INSPIRE Regulations 2009 or, as the case may be, the INSPIRE (Scotland) Regulations 2009, the definitions set out in Part A of F3Annex 4 shall apply.

The metadata describing a spatial data set, a spatial data set series or a spatial data service shall comprise the metadata elements or groups of metadata elements set out in Part B of F4Annex 4 and shall be created and maintained in accordance with the rules set out in Parts C and D thereof.

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