Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009Show full title

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Part A of [F1 Annex 4] to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008(1) shall apply.

The following definitions shall also apply:

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.

‘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.

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

4.

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

5.

‘response time’ means the time measured at the [F2 appropriate authority's] service location, in which the service operation returned the first byte of the result;

6.

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

7.

‘[F3 INSPIRE metadata element’ means a metadata element set out in Part B of [F1 Annex 4] 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);]

8.

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

9.

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

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.

‘layer’ means a basic unit of geographic information that may be requested as a map from a server in accordance with EN ISO 19128 [F4 ;]

12.

[F5 ‘Direct Access Download’ means a Download Service which provides access to the Spatial Objects in Spatial Data Sets based upon a query.]

13.

[F6 “Appropriate authority” means—

(i)

in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State;

(ii)

in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The INSPIRE (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1338), regs. 1, 12(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Art. 2(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The INSPIRE (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1338), regs. 1, 12(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 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.

F4 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1088/2010 of 23 November 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards download services and transformation services.

F5 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1088/2010 of 23 November 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards download services and transformation services.

F6 Art. 2(13) inserted (31.12.2020) by The INSPIRE (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1338), regs. 1, 12(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

(1)

OJ L 326, 4.12.2008, p. 12.

(2)

[F3 Commission 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 ).]

Textual Amendments

F3 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.