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For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Part A of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008(1) shall apply.
The following definitions shall also apply:
‘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;
‘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;
‘capacity’ means limit of the number of simultaneous service requests provided with guaranteed performance;
‘availability’ means probability that the Network Service is available;
‘response time’ means the time measured at the Member State service location, in which the service operation returned the first byte of the result;
‘service request’ means a single request to a single operation of an INSPIRE Network Service;
‘[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 (2) ;]
‘publish’ means the operation to insert, delete or update INSPIRE metadata elements of resources in the Discovery Service;
‘natural language’ means a language that is spoken, written, or signed by humans for general-purpose communication;
‘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;
‘layer’ means a basic unit of geographic information that may be requested as a map from a server in accordance with EN ISO 19128[F2;]
[F3‘ Direct Access Download ’ means a Download Service which provides access to the Spatial Objects in Spatial Data Sets based upon a query.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1311/2014 of 10 December 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards the definition of an INSPIRE metadata element.
[F1Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services ( OJ L 323, 8.12.2010, p. 11 ).]