# 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, Article 2: Definitions

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

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.
The following definitions shall also apply:
1..‘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;
2..‘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;
3..‘capacity’ means limit of the number of simultaneous service requests provided with guaranteed performance;
4..‘availability’ means probability that the Network Service is available;
5..‘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;
6..‘service request’ means a single request to a single operation of an INSPIRE Network Service;
7..‘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;
8..‘publish’ means the operation to insert, delete or update INSPIRE metadata elements of resources in the Discovery Service;
9..‘natural language’ means a language that is spoken, written, or signed by humans for general-purpose communication;
10..‘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;
11..‘layer’ means a basic unit of geographic information that may be requested as a map from a server in accordance with EN ISO 19128 ;
12..‘Direct Access Download’ means a Download Service which provides access to the Spatial Objects in Spatial Data Sets based upon a query.
13.“Appropriate authority” means—
(i)in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State;
(ii)in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/976/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-976/article-2
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