Commission Regulation (EU) No 1253/2013 of 21 October 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

‘1 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.’

1 Code lists shall be of one of the following types, as specified in the Annexes: (a) code lists whose allowed values comprise only the values specified in this Regulation; (b) code lists whose allowed values comprise the values specified in this Regulation and narrower values defined by data providers; (c) code lists whose allowed values comprise the values specified in this Regulation and additional values at any level defined by data providers; (d) code lists, whose allowed values comprise any values defined by data providers. For the purposes of points (b), (c) and (d), in addition to the allowed values, data providers may use the values specified in the relevant INSPIRE Technical Guidance document available on the INSPIRE web site of the Joint Research Centre.

2 Code lists may be hierarchical. Values of hierarchical code lists may have a more general parent value. Where the valid values of a hierarchical code list are specified in a table in this Regulation, the parent values are listed in the last column.

3 Where, for an attribute whose type is a code list as referred to in points (b), (c) or (d) of paragraph 1, a data provider provides a value that is not specified in this Regulation, that value and its definition shall be made available in a register.

4 Attributes or association roles of spatial object types or data types whose type is a code list may only take values that are allowed according to the specification of the code list.

5 Attributes or association roles of spatial object types or data types that have an enumeration type may only take values from the lists specified for the enumeration type.’

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.