{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-2/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-2/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2007/2",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2007-2",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:\n1.. ‘infrastructure for spatial information’ means metadata, spatial data sets and spatial data services; network services and technologies; agreements on sharing, access and use; and coordination and monitoring mechanisms, processes and procedures, established, operated or made available in accordance with this Directive;\n2.. ‘spatial data’ means any data with a direct or indirect reference to a specific location or geographical area;\n3.. ‘spatial data set’ means an identifiable collection of spatial data;\n4.. ‘spatial data services’ means the operations which may be performed, by invoking a computer application, on the spatial data contained in spatial data sets or on the related metadata;\n5.. ‘spatial object’ means an abstract representation of a real-world phenomenon related to a specific location or geographical area;\n6.. ‘metadata’ means information describing spatial data sets and spatial data services and making it possible to discover, inventory and use them;\n7.. ‘interoperability’ means the possibility for spatial data sets to be combined, and for services to interact, without repetitive manual intervention, in such a way that the result is coherent and the added value of the data sets and services is enhanced;\n8.. ‘Inspire geo-portal’ means an Internet site, or equivalent, providing access to the services referred to in Article 11(1);\n9.. ‘public authority’ means:\n(a) any government or other public administration, including public advisory bodies, at national, regional or local level;\n(b) any natural or legal person performing public administrative functions under national law, including specific duties, activities or services in relation to the environment; and\n(c) any natural or legal person having public responsibilities or functions, or providing public services relating to the environment under the control of a body or person falling within (a) or (b).\nMember States may provide that when bodies or institutions are acting in a judicial or legislative capacity, they are not to be regarded as a public authority for the purposes of this Directive;\n10.. ‘third party’ means any natural or legal person other than a public authority.",
  "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/eudr/2007/2/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}