The INSPIRE (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Insertion of regulation 6A U.K.

5.  After regulation 6 insert—

“Interoperability

6A.— (1) A public authority or a third party must ensure that the following are available in accordance with paragraph (2)—

(a) any spatial data set for which that authority or third party is responsible and which corresponds to the themes listed in Annex I to the Directive; and

(b) any spatial data service for which that authority or third party is responsible and which relates to a data set described in sub-paragraph (a).

(2) The spatial data sets and spatial data services described in paragraph (1) must be available as follows—

(a) newly collected or extensively restructured spatial data sets and spatial data services relating to those data sets—

(i) must be available in conformity with the interoperability requirements (Annex I, original) by 23rd November 2012, and

(ii) must be available in conformity with the interoperability requirements (Annex I, including new code list requirements) by 4th February 2013; and

(b) spatial data sets and spatial data services not described in sub-paragraph (a) and still in use—

(i) must be available in conformity with the interoperability requirements (Annex I, original) by 23rd November 2017, and

(ii) must be available in conformity with the interoperability requirements (Annex I, including new code list requirements) by 4th February 2018.

(3) Spatial data sets may be made available in conformity through—

(a) the adaptation of existing data sets; or

(b) the transformation services specified in regulation 7(2)(d).

(4) In this regulation—

(a) “the interoperability requirements (Annex I, original)” means the requirements of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services(1), in its original form as adopted on 23rd November 2010; and

(b) “the interoperability requirements (Annex I, including new code list requirements)” means the requirements of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services(2).”.

(1)

OJ No L 323, 8.12.2010, p.11.

(2)

As amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 102/2011 (OJ No L 31, 5.2.2011, p.13).