LegalizeCommission Regulation (EU) No 102/2011 of 4 February 2011 amending 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
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:
(1) 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 (2) sets out the technical arrangements for interoperability of spatial data sets, including the definition of code lists to be used for attributes and association roles of spatial object types and data types.
(2) Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 requires attributes or association roles of spatial object types or data types that have a code list type to take values that are valid for the respective code list.
(3) These allowed values for the code lists defined in Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 are required for the implementation of the requirements set out in that Regulation and should therefore be laid down in that Regulation as well.
(4) The development of the code list values included in this Regulation followed the same principles with regard to user requirements, reference material, relevant Union policies or activities, feasibility and proportionality in terms of the likely costs and benefits, stakeholder involvement and consultation and international standards, as were applied to the development of the other technical arrangements laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010.
(5) Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6) 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
Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 is amended as follows:
Annex I is amended as set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
Annex II is amended as set out in Annex II to this Regulation.
Article 2
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth 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, 4 February 2011.
For the Commission The President José Manuel BARROSO
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