The following definitions shall also apply:

1. 1.

   ‘initial operating capability’ means the ability of a Network Service to provide full functionality without guaranteeing quality of service in conformity with the rules set out in Annex I to this Regulation or access to the service for all users through the INSPIRE geo-portal;

2. 2.

   ‘performance’ means the minimal level by which an objective is considered to be attained representing the fact how fast a request can be completed within an INSPIRE Network Service;

3. 3.

   ‘capacity’ means limit of the number of simultaneous service requests provided with guaranteed performance;

4. 4.

   ‘availability’ means probability that the Network Service is available;

5. 5.

   ‘response time’ means the time measured at the Member State service location, in which the service operation returned the first byte of the result;

6. 6.

   ‘service request’ means a single request to a single operation of an INSPIRE Network Service;

7. 7.
   ‘F1INSPIRE metadata element’ means a metadata element set out in Part B of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 or in Part B of Annex V, Part B of Annex VI and Part B of Annex VII to Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 3 ;
8. 8.

   ‘publish’ means the operation to insert, delete or update INSPIRE metadata elements of resources in the Discovery Service;

9. 9.

   ‘natural language’ means a language that is spoken, written, or signed by humans for general-purpose communication;

10. 10.

    ‘collect’ means an operation to pull INSPIRE metadata elements of resources from a source Discovery Service and to allow to create, delete or update the metadata of these resources in the target Discovery Service;

11. 11.

    ‘layer’ means a basic unit of geographic information that may be requested as a map from a server in accordance with EN ISO 19128F2;

12. 12.

    F3‘ Direct Access Download ’ means a Download Service which provides access to the Spatial Objects in Spatial Data Sets based upon a query.