
Article 1 
This Regulation sets out the requirements for the establishment and maintenance of the Network Services provided for in Article 11(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC (hereinafter ‘the Network Services’) and obligations related to the availability of those services to the public authorities of the Member States and third parties pursuant to Article 12 of that Directive.
Article 2 
For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Part A of the Annex 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 Member State 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 the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008;
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.
Article 3 
The Network Services shall be in conformity with the requirements concerning the quality of services set out in Annex I.
In addition, each type of the Network Services shall be in conformity with the following:

((a)) as concerns the Discovery Services, the specific requirements and characteristics set out in Annex II;
((b)) as concerns the View Services, the specific requirements and characteristics set out in Annex III.
Article 4 

1. Not later than 9 May 2011, Member States shall provide the Discovery and View Services with initial operating capability.
2. Not later than 9 November 2011, Member States shall provide the Discovery and View Services in conformity with this Regulation.
Article 5 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 19 October 2009.
For the Commission
Stavros DIMAS
Member of the Commission
ANNEX I
Third party Network Services linked pursuant to Article 12 of Directive 2007/2/EC shall not be taken into account in the quality of service appraisal to avoid the potential deterioration due to the cascading effects.
The following quality of service criteria relating to performance, capacity and availability shall be ensured.

1. 
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.

Normal situation represents periods out of peak load. It is set at 90 % of the time.

2. 
The minimum number of served simultaneous requests to a discovery service according to the performance quality of service shall be 30 per second.

The minimum number of served simultaneous service requests to a view service according to the performance quality of service shall be 20 per second.

3. 
The probability of a Network Service to be available shall be 99 % of the time.

ANNEX II
PART A
In order to be in conformity with the minimum set of search criteria set out in Article 11(2) of Directive 2007/2/EC, the Discovery Service shall support searching with the INSPIRE metadata elements listed in Table 1 of this Annex.


Minimum search criteria INSPIRE metadata elements
Keywords Keyword
Classification of spatial data and services(For spatial data sets and spatial data set series) Topic category
Classification of spatial data and services(For spatial data services) Spatial data service type
The quality and validity of spatial data sets Lineage
The quality and validity of spatial data sets Spatial resolution
Degree of conformity with the implementing rules provided for in Article 7(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC Specification
Degree of conformity with the implementing rules provided for in Article 7(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC Degree
Geographical location Geographic bounding box
Conditions applying to the access to and use of spatial data sets and services Conditions applying to access and use
Conditions applying to the access to and use of spatial data sets and services Limitations on public access
The public authorities responsible for the establishment, management, maintenance and distribution of spatial data sets and services Responsible party
The public authorities responsible for the establishment, management, maintenance and distribution of spatial data sets and services Responsible party role

The following INSPIRE metadata elements or set of elements shall be also available as search criteria:


((a)) Resource Title;
((b)) Resource Abstract;
((c)) Resource type;
((d)) Unique Resource Identifier;
((e)) Temporal Reference.

To allow for discovering resources through a combination of search criteria, logical and comparison operators shall be supported.

To allow for discovering resources based on the geographic location of the resource, the spatial operator listed in Table 2 shall be supported.


Operator Name Property
Intersects Requires the geographic bounding box INSPIRE metadata element to intersect a defined area of interest

PART B
1. 
In order to be in conformity with Article 11(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC, the Discovery Service shall provide the operations listed in Table 3 of this Annex.


Operation Role
Get Discovery Service Metadata Provides all necessary information about the service and describes service capabilities
Discover Metadata The Discover Metadata operation allows requesting INSPIRE metadata elements of resources based on a query statement to be retrieved from the target Discovery Service

In order to be in conformity with Article 12 of Directive 2007/2/EC, the Discovery Service shall support the operations listed in Table 4 of this Annex.


Operation Role
Publish Metadata The Publish Metadata operation allows editing INSPIRE metadata elements of resources in the Discovery Service (push or pull metadata mechanisms). Editing meaning insert, update and delete
Link Discovery Service The Link Discovery Service function allows the declaration of the availability of a Discovery Service for the discovery of resources through the Member State Discovery Service while maintaining the resource metadata at the owner location

The request and response parameters of each operation complete the description of each operation and form an integral part of the Discovery Service technical specification.

2.  2.1.  2.1.1. 
The Get Discovery Service Metadata Request parameter indicates the natural language for the content of the Get Discovery Service Metadata Response
 2.2. 
The Get Discovery Service Metadata Response shall contain the following sets of parameters:


— Discovery Service Metadata,
— Operations Metadata,
— Languages.
 2.2.1. 
The Discovery Service Metadata parameters shall at least contain the INSPIRE metadata elements of the Discovery Service.
 2.2.2. 
The Operations Metadata parameter provides metadata about the operations implemented by the Discovery Service. These metadata parameters shall describe each operation. It shall at least provide the following:


1.. indicate for the Publish Metadata if the Pull Mechanism, the Push Mechanism or both are available;
2.. describe each operation, including as a minimum a description of the data exchanged and the network address.
 2.2.3. 
Two language parameters shall be provided:


— the Response Language parameter indicating the natural language used in the Get Discovery Service Metadata Response parameters,
— the Supported Languages parameter containing the list of the natural languages supported by the Discovery Service.

3.  3.1. 
This Discovery Metadata Request contains the following parameters:


— Language,
— Query.
 3.1.1. 
The Language parameter indicates the natural language requested for the content of the Discover Metadata Response.
 3.1.2. 
The Query parameter shall contain the combination of search criteria as specified in part A.
 3.2.  3.2.1. 
The Discover Metadata Response parameter shall contain at least the INSPIRE metadata elements of each resource matching the query.

4. 
The Publish Metadata function enables the publication of the INSPIRE metadata elements of resources at the Discovery Service. Two alternatives are:


— Push Mechanism: allowing editing of the INSPIRE metadata elements of resources accessible from the Discovery Service,
— Pull Mechanism: allows the Member State Discovery Service to pull INSPIRE metadata elements of resources from a remote location.

At least one of the above alternatives shall be supported.
 4.1.  4.1.1.  4.1.1.1. 
The Edit Metadata Request parameter provides all information requested for INSPIRE metadata elements of resources to be inserted, updated or deleted at the Discovery Service.
 4.2.  4.2.1.  4.2.1.1. 
The Collect Metadata Request parameter provides all information about the remote location required to retrieve the available metadata of resources. It shall include as a minimum the INSPIRE metadata elements of the dedicated spatial data service.

5. 
The Link Discovery Service operation allows the declaration of the availability of a Discovery Service compliant with this Regulation, for the discovery of resources through the Member State Discovery Service while maintaining the resource metadata at the owner location.
 5.1.  5.1.1. 
The Link Discovery Service Request parameter shall provide all information about the Public Authority’s or Third Party’s Discovery Service compliant with this Regulation, enabling the Member State Discovery Service to get resources metadata based on a combination of search criteria from the Public Authority’s or Third Party’s Discovery Service and to collate it with other resources metadata.

ANNEX III
PART A
1. 
In order to be in conformity with Article 11(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC, the View Service shall provide the operations listed in Table 1 of this Annex.


Operation Role
Get View Service Metadata Provides all necessary information about the service and describes service capabilities
Get Map Returns a map containing the geographic and thematic information coming from the available spatial datasets. This map is an image spatially referenced

In order to be in conformity with Article 12 of Directive 2007/2/EC, the view Service shall support the operations listed in Table 2 of this Annex.


Operation Role
Link View Service Allows a Public Authority or a Third Party to declare a view Service for the viewing of its resources through the Member State View Service while maintaining the viewing capability at the Public Authority or the Third party location

The request and response parameters of each operation complete the description of each operation and form an integral part of the View Service technical specification.

2.  2.1.  2.1.1. 
The Get View Service Metadata Request parameter indicates the natural language requested for the content of the Get View Service Metadata Response.
 2.2. 
The Get View Service Metadata Response shall contain the following set of parameters:


— View Service Metadata,
— Operations Metadata,
— Languages,
— Layers Metadata.
 2.2.1. 
The View Service Metadata parameters shall at least contain the INSPIRE metadata elements of the View Service.
 2.2.2. 
The Operation Metadata parameter describes the operations of the View Service and shall contain as a minimum a description of the data exchanged and the network address of each operation.
 2.2.3. 
Two language parameters shall be provided:


— the Response Language parameter indicating the natural language used in the Get Service Metadata Response parameters,
— the Supported Languages parameter containing the list of the natural languages supported by this view service.
 2.2.4. 
The metadata elements listed in Table 3 shall be provided for each layer.


Metadata elements Description
Resource Title The title of the layer, used for human communication, for presentation of the layer, e.g. in a menu
Resource Abstract Layer abstract
Keyword Additional keywords
Geographic Bounding Box The minimum bounding rectangle in all supported Coordinate Reference Systems of the area covered by the layer
Unique Resource Identifier The Unique Resource Identifier of the resource used to create the layer

The layer specific parameters listed in Table 4 shall be provided for each layer.


Parameter Description
Name Harmonised name of the layer
Coordinate Reference Systems List of Coordinate Reference Systems in which the layer is available
Styles List of the rendering styles available for the layer.
A style shall be composed of a title and a unique identifier
Legend URL Location of the legend for each style, language and dimension pairs
Dimension Pairs Indicates the supported two dimensional axis pairs for multi-dimensional spatial data sets and spatial data sets series

3.  3.1.  3.1.1. 
The Get Map Request parameters listed in Table 5 shall be provided


Parameter Description
Layers List of layer names to be included in the map
Styles List of style to be used for each layer
Coordinate Reference System Coordinate Reference System of the map
Bounding box The 4 corner Coordinate of the two dimensional map for the selected Dimension pair and in the selected Coordinate Reference System
Image width The map width in pixels
Image height The map height in pixels
Image format The output image format
Language language to be used for the response
Dimension pair The two dimensional axis to be used for the map. For example, a geographical dimension and time

4.  4.1.  4.1.1. 
The Link View Service parameter shall provide all information about the Public Authority’s or Third Party’s View Service compliant with this regulation, enabling the Member State View Service to get a map from the Public Authority’s or Third Party’s View Service and to collate it with other maps.

PART B
The View Service shall have the following characteristics.

1. 
The layers shall be simultaneously viewed using a single coordinate reference system and the View Service shall support at least the Coordinate Reference Systems in Annex I, point 1 of Directive 2007/2/EC.

2. 
The View Service shall support at least one of the following image formats:


— the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format,
— the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), without compression.
