This Regulation sets out the requirements for the establishment and maintenance of the Network Services provided for in regulation 7(2) of the INSPIRE Regulations 2009 and regulation 8(2) of the INSPIRE (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and obligations related to the availability of those Services to public authorities and third parties pursuant to regulation 8 of the INSPIRE Regulations 2009 and to Scottish public authorities and third parties pursuant to regulation 9 of the INSPIRE (Scotland) Regulations 2009.

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 F3appropriate authority's 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.
   ‘F4INSPIRE metadata element’ means a metadata element set out in Part B of F2Annex 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 1089/20103;
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 19128 F5;

12. 12.

    F6‘Direct Access Download’ means a Download Service which provides access to the Spatial Objects in Spatial Data Sets based upon a query.

13. 13.

    F7“Appropriate authority” means—

    1. (i)

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

    2. (ii)

       in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers.

The Network Services shall be in conformity with the requirements concerning the quality of services set out in Annex I.

In addition, each type of the Network Services shall be in conformity with the following:

1. (a)

   as concerns the Discovery Services, the specific requirements and characteristics set out in Annex II;

2. (b)

   as concerns the View Services, the specific requirements and characteristics set out in Annex IIIF5;

3. (c)

   F6as concerns the Download Services, the applicable specific requirements and characteristics set out in Annexes I and IV;

4. (d)

   as concerns the Transformation Services, the applicable specific requirements and characteristics set out in Annexes I and V.

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