{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-620/annex-II/division-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-620/annex-II/division-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/620",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/620 of 20 April 2018 on the technical specifications for the Copernicus service component pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 377/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-620",
  "path": "annex/II/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "SERVICE ARCHITECTURE",
  "text": "The design of the service architecture shall ensure consistency with the overall vision and development strategy of Copernicus.\nThere shall be four main service elements:\n(a) acquisition and pre-processing of input data, primarily observations (from both satellite and in-situ instruments) and ancillary data that are needed to estimate emissions of pollutants and to assess concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere;\n(b) global processing: shall be operated in three modes to deliver the products required by the users:\n(1) daily production for near-real-time analyses and forecast;\n(2) daily production for delayed-mode analyses and forecast;\n(3) re-analyses production stream providing multi-annual consistent datasets with a frozen model/assimilation system;\n(c) regional processing: shall be covered with a higher spatial resolution and shall support in particular further downstream modelling activities for sub-regions at even finer scale as well as air quality and pollen monitoring and forecasting national activities;\n(d) supplementary services: shall be relative to applications processing, services and products that are built on top of or integrated into the main global and Union regional processing outputs.\nThe four cross-cutting functions shall deal with the following:\n(a) quality control and assurance;\n(b) archiving;\n(c) product dissemination;\n(d) user interaction, training and outreach.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/620/annex/II/division/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:07.991242+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}