This Regulation sets out the requirements for technical arrangements for the interoperability and, where practicable, harmonisation of spatial data sets and spatial data services corresponding to the themes listed in Annexes I, II and III to Directive 2007/2/EC.
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
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
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)(1), and in particular Article 7(1) thereof,
Whereas:
Directive 2007/2/EC lays down general rules for the establishment of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community. Within this infrastructure, Member States are required to make available data sets related to one or several of the Annexes in Directive 2007/2/EC and the corresponding spatial data services in conformity with the technical arrangements for the interoperability and, where practicable, harmonisation of spatial data sets and services.
The technical arrangements take into account relevant user requirements, which were elicited from stakeholders through a user requirements survey and by analysing the submitted reference material and relevant Union environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
The feasibility of the technical arrangements and their proportionality in terms of the likely costs and benefits were analysed by the Commission based on the testing results reported by the stakeholders, replies from Member States through the national contact points to a request for information on cost benefit considerations and evidence from studies conducted by Member States on the costs and benefits of spatial data infrastructures at regional level.
Representatives of Member States as well as other natural or legal persons with an interest in the spatial data, including users, producers, added value service providers or any coordinating body were given the opportunity to participate in the drafting of the technical arrangements through proposed experts and to evaluate the draft implementing rules through a stakeholder consultation and testing exercise.
In order to achieve interoperability and benefit from the endeavours of users’ and producers’ communities, when appropriate, international standards are integrated into the concepts and definitions of the elements of spatial data themes listed in the Directive 2007/2/EC Annex I, II or III.
In order to ensure interoperability and harmonisation across spatial data themes, the Member States should meet requirements for common data types, the identification of spatial objects, metadata for interoperability, generic network model and other concepts and rules that apply to all spatial data themes.
In order to ensure the interoperability and harmonisation within one spatial data theme, the Member States should use the classifications and definitions of spatial objects, their key attributes and association roles, data types, value domains and specific rules that apply to individual spatial data theme.
Since the code list values required for the implementation of this Regulation are not included in this Regulation, this Regulation should only become applicable once these are adopted as a legal act. It is therefore appropriate to defer the applicability of this Regulation.
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 22 of Directive 2007/2/EC,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1 Subject Matter and Scope
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This Regulation does not apply to the network services falling within the scope of Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009(2).
Article 2 Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions as well as the theme-specific definitions set out in the Annexes shall apply:
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‘abstract type’ means a type that cannot be instantiated, but which may have attributes and association roles,
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‘association role’ means a value or object, to which a type has a relationship, as referred to in Article 8 (2b) of Directive 2007/2/EC,
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‘attribute’ means a characteristic of a type, as referred to in Article 8 (2c) of Directive 2007/2/EC,
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‘code list’ means an open enumeration that can be extended,
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‘data type’ means a descriptor of a set of values that lack identity, in accordance with ISO/TS 19103:2005,
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‘enumeration’ means a data type whose instances form a fixed list of named literal values. Attributes of an enumerated type may only take values from this list,
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‘external object identifier’ means a unique object identifier which is published by the responsible body, which may be used by external applications to reference the spatial object,
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‘identifier’ means a linguistically independent sequence of characters capable of uniquely and permanently identifying that with which it is associated, in accordance with EN ISO 19135:2007,
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‘instantiate’ means to create an object that is conformant with the definition, attributes, association roles and constraints specified for the instantiated type,
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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 19128:2008,
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‘life-cycle information’ means a set of properties of a spatial object that describe the temporal characteristics of a version of a spatial object or the changes between versions,
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‘metadata element’ means a discrete unit of metadata, in accordance with EN ISO 19115:2005/AC:2008,
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‘package’ means a general purpose mechanism for organizing elements into groups,
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‘register’ means a set of files containing identifiers assigned to items with descriptions of the associated items, in accordance with EN ISO 19135:2007,
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‘spatial object type’ means a classification of spatial objects,
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‘style’ means a mapping from spatial object types and their properties and constraints to parameterized symbols used in drawing maps,
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‘sub-type of’ means a relationship between a more specific type and a more general type, where the more specific type is fully consistent with the more general type and contains additional information, as adapted from ISO/TS 19103:2005,
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‘type’ means spatial object type or data type,
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‘voidable’ means that, for an attribute or association role a value of ‘void’ may be made available if no corresponding value is contained in the spatial data sets maintained by the Member States or no corresponding value can be derived from existing values at reasonable costs. If an attribute or association role is not voidable, the table cell specifying its voidability is left blank,
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‘property’ means attribute or association role,
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‘union type’ means a type consisting of one and only one of several alternatives (listed as member attributes), in accordance with ISO/TS 19103:2005,
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‘association class’ means a type that defines additional properties on a relationship between two other types,
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‘coverage’ means a spatial object that acts as a function to return values from its range for any direct position within its spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal domain, in accordance with ISO 19123:2007,
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‘domain’ means a well-defined set, in accordance with ISO/TS 19103:2005,
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‘range’ means a set of feature attribute values associated by a function with the elements of the domain of a coverage, in accordance with EN ISO 19123:2007,
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‘rectified grid’ means a grid for which there is an affine transformation between the grid coordinates and the coordinates of a coordinate reference system, in accordance with EN ISO 19123:2007,
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‘referenceable grid’ means a grid associated with a transformation that can be used to convert grid coordinate values into values of coordinates referenced to an external coordinate reference system, in accordance with EN ISO 19123:2007,
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‘tessellation’ means a partitioning of a space into a set of conterminous subspaces having the same dimension as the space being partitioned. A tessellation in a 2D space consists of a set of non-overlapping polygons that entirely cover a region of interest,
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‘narrower value’ means a value that has a hierarchical relationship to a more general parent value,
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‘end point’ means the internet address used to directly call an operation provided by a spatial data service,
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‘access point’ means an internet address containing a detailed description of a spatial data service, including a list of end points to allow its execution,
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‘Invocable spatial data service’ means all of the following:
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a spatial data service with metadata which fulfils the requirements of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008(3),
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a spatial data service with at least one resource locator that is an access point,
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a spatial data service in conformity with a documented and publicly available set of technical specifications providing the information necessary for its execution,
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‘interoperable spatial data service’ means an invocable spatial data service which fulfils the requirements of Annex VI,
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‘harmonised spatial data service’ means an interoperable spatial data service which fulfils the requirements of Annex VII,
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‘conformant spatial data set’ means a spatial data set which fulfils the requirements of this Regulation,
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‘operation’ means an action supported by a spatial data service,
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‘interface’ means the named set of operations that characterise the behaviour of an entity as defined by ISO 19119:2005.
Article 3 Common Types
Types that are common to several of the themes listed in Annexes I, II and III to Directive 2007/2/EC shall conform to the definitions and constraints and include the attributes and association roles set out in Annex I.
Article 4 Types for the Exchange and Classification of Spatial Objects
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For the exchange and classification of spatial objects from data sets meeting the conditions laid down in Article 4 of Directive 2007/2/EC, Member States shall use the spatial object types and associated data types, enumerations and code lists that are defined in Annexes II, III and IV for the themes the data sets relate to.
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Spatial object types and data types shall comply with the definitions and constraints and include the attributes and association roles set out in the Annexes.
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The enumerations and code lists used in attributes or association roles of spatial object types or data types shall comply with the definitions and include the values set out in the Annexes. The enumeration and code list values are uniquely identified by language-neutral mnemonic codes for computers. The values may also include a language-specific name to be used for human interaction.