Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2431 of 24 October 2023 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

‘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, associated data types and code lists that are defined in Annexes II, III and IV to this Regulation for the themes the data sets relate to.

2 When exchanging spatial objects, Member States shall comply with the definitions and constraints set out in the Annexes and provide values for all attributes and association roles set out for the relevant spatial object types and data types in the Annexes. For voidable attributes and association roles for which no value exists, Member States may omit the value.’

1 The code lists included in this Regulation set out the multilingual thesauri to be used for the key attributes, in accordance with Article 8(2), point (c), of Directive 2007/2/EC.

2 The Commission shall establish and operate an INSPIRE code list register at Union level for managing and making publicly available the values that are included in the code lists referred to in paragraph 1.

3 The Commission shall be assisted by the INSPIRE Commission expert group in the maintenance and update of the code list values.

4 Code lists shall be one of the following types: (a) code lists whose values comprise only the values specified in the INSPIRE code list register; (b) code lists whose values comprise the values specified in the INSPIRE code list register and narrower values defined by data providers; (c) code lists whose values comprise the values specified in the INSPIRE code list register and additional values at any level defined by data providers; (d) code lists, whose values comprise any values defined by data providers.

5 Code lists may be hierarchical. Values of hierarchical code lists may have a more general parent value.

6 Where, for an attribute whose type is a code list as referred to in paragraph 4, points (b), (c) or (d), a data provider provides a value that is not specified in the INSPIRE code list register, that value and its definition and label shall be made available in another register.’

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