The INSPIRE (Scotland) Regulations 2009

Linking to a networkS

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9.—(1) The Scottish Ministers must enable a Scottish public authority to link any spatial data set or spatial data service for which that authority is responsible to a network of related spatial data sets or spatial data services, provided that the conditions specified in paragraph (3) are satisfied in relation to that data set or data service.

(2) The Scottish Ministers must enable a third party to link any spatial data set or spatial data service for which that third party is responsible to a network of related spatial data sets or spatial data services, provided that—

(a)the third party makes a request to that effect; and

(b)the conditions specified in paragraph (3) are satisfied in relation to that data set or data service.

[F1(3) The conditions are—

(a)metadata have been created in accordance with regulation 7 and the Metadata Regulation (if on the date in question metadata were required to be created by regulation 7);

(b)services have been established and are operated in accordance with regulation 8 and [F2Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services]; and

(c)(in the case of a spatial data set corresponding to the themes listed in [F3Annex 1 of the Metadata Regulation] or a spatial data service relating to such a data set) there is conformity with the applicable requirements as to interoperability set out in regulation 7A (if on the date in question conformity with those requirements is required by that regulation).]

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