{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-976/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/976",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-976",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Part A of Annex 4 to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 shall apply.\nThe following definitions shall also apply:\n1..‘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;\n2..‘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;\n3..‘capacity’ means limit of the number of simultaneous service requests provided with guaranteed performance;\n4..‘availability’ means probability that the Network Service is available;\n5..‘response time’ means the time measured at the appropriate authority's service location, in which the service operation returned the first byte of the result;\n6..‘service request’ means a single request to a single operation of an INSPIRE Network Service;\n7..‘INSPIRE 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;\n8..‘publish’ means the operation to insert, delete or update INSPIRE metadata elements of resources in the Discovery Service;\n9..‘natural language’ means a language that is spoken, written, or signed by humans for general-purpose communication;\n10..‘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;\n11..‘layer’ means a basic unit of geographic information that may be requested as a map from a server in accordance with EN ISO 19128 ;\n12..‘Direct Access Download’ means a Download Service which provides access to the Spatial Objects in Spatial Data Sets based upon a query.\n13.“Appropriate authority” means—\n(i)in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State;\n(ii)in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The INSPIRE (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1338), regs. 1, 12(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The INSPIRE (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1338), regs. 1, 12(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1311/2014 of 10 December 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards the definition of an INSPIRE metadata element."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1088/2010 of 23 November 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards download services and transformation services."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1088/2010 of 23 November 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards download services and transformation services."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 2(13) inserted (31.12.2020) by The INSPIRE (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1338), regs. 1, 12(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 326, 4.12.2008, p. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services ( OJ L 323, 8.12.2010, p. 11 )."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/976/article/2",
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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."
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