# Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services, Division 1: PERFORMANCE

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The normal situation represents periods out of peak load. It is set at 90 % of the time.
The response time for sending the initial response to a discovery service request shall be maximum 3 seconds in normal situation.
For a 470 Kilobytes image (e.g. 800 × 600 pixels with a colour depth of 8 bits), the response time for sending the initial response to a Get Map Request to a view service shall be maximum 5 seconds in normal situation.
For the Get Download Service Metadata operation, the response time for sending the initial response shall be maximum 10 seconds in normal situation.
For the Get Spatial Data Set operation and for the Get Spatial Object operation, and for a query consisting exclusively of a bounding box, the response time for sending the initial response shall be maximum 30 seconds in normal situation then, and still in normal situation, the download service shall maintain a sustained response greater than 0,5 Megabytes per second or greater than 500 Spatial Objects per second.
For the Describe Spatial Data Set operation and for the Describe Spatial Object Type operation, the response time for sending the initial response shall be maximum 10 seconds in normal situation then, and still in normal situation, the download service shall maintain a sustained response greater than 0,5 Megabytes per second or greater than 500 descriptions of Spatial Objects per second.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/976/annex/I/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-976/annex-I/division-1
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