Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Part A of F1Annex 4 to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008^f1 shall apply.

The following definitions shall also apply:

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   ‘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;

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   ‘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;

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   ‘capacity’ means limit of the number of simultaneous service requests provided with guaranteed performance;

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   ‘availability’ means probability that the Network Service is available;

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   ‘response time’ means the time measured at the F2appropriate authority's service location, in which the service operation returned the first byte of the result;

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   ‘service request’ means a single request to a single operation of an INSPIRE Network Service;

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   ‘F3INSPIRE metadata element’ means a metadata element set out in Part B of Annex 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 1089/2010^f2;

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   ‘publish’ means the operation to insert, delete or update INSPIRE metadata elements of resources in the Discovery Service;

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   ‘natural language’ means a language that is spoken, written, or signed by humans for general-purpose communication;

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    ‘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;

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    ‘layer’ means a basic unit of geographic information that may be requested as a map from a server in accordance with EN ISO 19128 F4;

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    F5‘Direct Access Download’ means a Download Service which provides access to the Spatial Objects in Spatial Data Sets based upon a query.

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    F6“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.