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;
‘INSPIRE metadata element’ means a metadata element set out in Part B of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008;
‘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.