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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1205/annex-3",
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  "legislation": "eur/2008/1205",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1205",
  "path": "annex/3",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "SPATIAL DATA THEMES CORRESPONDING WITH THE THEMES SET OUT IN ANNEX III TO DIRECTIVE 2007/2/EC (IMMEDIATELY BEFORE EXIT DAY)",
  "text": "Statistical units\n(1.) Units for dissemination or use of statistical information.\nBuildings\n(2.) Geographical location of buildings.\nSoil\n(3.) Soils and subsoil characterised according to depth, texture, structure and content of particles and organic material, stoniness, erosion, where appropriate mean slope and anticipated water storage capacity.\nLand use\n(4.) Territory characterised according to its current and future planned functional dimension or socio-economic purpose, including where such dimension or purpose is residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural, forestry or recreational.\nHuman health and safety\n(5.) ((1)) Data in relation to—\n(a) the geographical distribution of dominance of pathologies, including allergies, cancers and respiratory diseases;\n(b) information indicating the effect on human health or well-being of matters linked directly or indirectly to the quality of the environment.\n((2)) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b)—\n(a) “information indicating the effect on human health” includes biomarkers, decline of fertility and epidemics;\n(b) “well-being” includes fatigue and stress;\n(c) matters “linked directly to the quality of the environment” include air pollution, chemicals, depletion of the ozone layer and noise;\n(d) matters “linked indirectly to the quality of the environment” include food and genetically modified organisms.\nUtility facilities and governmental services\n(6.) Data in relation to—\n((a)) utility facilities, including sewage, waste management, energy supply and water supply;\n((b)) administrative and social governmental services, including public administration, civil protection sites, schools and hospitals.\nEnvironmental monitoring facilities\n(7.) The location and operation of environmental monitoring facilities, including those which observe or measure emissions, the state of environmental media or other ecosystem parameters, including biodiversity and the ecological condition of vegetation, by or on behalf of a public authority.\nProduction and industrial facilities\n(8.) Industrial production sites, including installations covered by any law in any part of the United Kingdom which implemented Directive 2008/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, and water abstraction facilities, mining and storage sites.\nAgricultural and aquaculture facilities\n(9.) Farming equipment and production facilities, including irrigation systems, greenhouses and stables.\nPopulation distribution — demography\n(10.) Geographical distribution of people, including population characteristics and activity levels, aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.\nArea management zones, restriction zones, regulation zones and reporting units\n(11.) Areas or zones established, managed, regulated or used to plan, perform, monitor or control activities for the purpose of achieving specific or defined environmental objectives under an enactment, including—\n(a) dumping sites and areas for the dumping of waste;\n(b) restricted areas around drinking water sources;\n(c) nitrate-vulnerable zones;\n(d) regulated fairways at sea or large inland waters;\n(e) noise restriction zones;\n(f) prospecting and mining permit areas;\n(g) river basin districts;\n(h) relevant reporting units;\n(i) coastal zone management areas.\nNatural risk zones\n(12.) Vulnerable areas characterised according to natural hazards, including atmospheric, hydrologic, seismic, volcanic or wildfire hazards that, because of their location, severity, and frequency, have the potential to seriously affect society.\nAtmospheric conditions\n(13.) Physical conditions in the atmosphere, including spatial data based on measurements or models (or a combination of measurements and models), including measurement locations.\nMeteorological geographical features\n(14.) Weather conditions and their measurements; precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, wind speed and direction.\nOceanographic geographical features\n(15.) Physical conditions of oceans, including currents, salinity and wave heights.\nSea regions\n(16.) Physical conditions of seas and saline water bodies divided into regions and sub-regions with common characteristics.\nBio-geographical regions\n(17.) Areas of relatively homogeneous ecological conditions with common characteristics.\nHabitats and biotopes\n(18.) Geographical areas characterised by specific ecological conditions, processes, structure, and life support functions that physically support the organisms that live there, including terrestrial and aquatic areas distinguished by geographical, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.\nSpecies distribution\n(19.) Geographical distribution of occurrence of animal and plant species aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.\nEnergy resources\n(20.) Energy resources, including hydrocarbons, hydropower, bio-energy, solar and wind, including, where relevant for structuring data, depth or height information on the extent of the resource.\nMineral resources\n(21.) Mineral resources including metal ores and industrial minerals including, where relevant for structuring data, depth or height information on the extent of the resource..",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Annexes 1-3 inserted (31.12.2020) by The INSPIRE (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1338), regs. 1, 10(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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