The Technical Guidance in this document is divided into Conformance Classes, so that it is possible to declare conformance to specific parts of the Technical Guidance. To conform to a Conformance Class it is necessary to meet all of the Requirements (see next section) in that Conformance Class. Conformance Classes are identified in the document as follows: TG Conformance #: [TITLE] conformance classes are shown using this style Technical Guidance Requirements and Recommendations notation Requirements and the recommendations for INSPIRE Spatial Data Services and services allowing spatial data services to be invoked within this technical guidance are highlighted and numbered as shown below: TG Requirement # requirements are shown using this style TG Recommendation # recommendations are shown using this style. Requirements and recommendations belong to the conformance class in which they are found in this document. Note: It is worth noting that requirements as specified in the INSPIRE Regulations and Implementing Rules are legally binding, and that requirements and recommendations as specified in INSPIRE Technical Guidance are not legally binding. Therefore, within this technical guidance we have used the terms requirement’ and recommendation’ to indicate what is technically required or ‘TG ‘TG recommended to conform to the Technical Guidance. XML Example notation XML Examples are shown using Courier New on a grey background with yellow for emphasis as below: <inspire:example> <inspire:highlight> Highlighted Text for emphasis </inspire:highlight> </inspire:example> Note: XML Examples are informative and are provided for information only and are expressly not normative. References References within this document are denoted using or For example, Section 5.3.1 “Section” “Annex”. or Annex A. References to other documents refer to the list of normative references in Section 1.1 and use the abbreviated title as indicated in Bold text. For example, [INS NS] uses the abbreviated title for the document as shown below: Commission Regulation (EU) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services. OJ L 274, 20.10.2009, p. 9
The Technical Guidance in this document is divided into Conformance Classes, so that it is possible to declare conformance to specific parts of the Technical Guidance. To conform to a Conformance Class it is necessary to meet all of the Requirements (see next section) in that Conformance Class. Conformance Classes are identified in the document as follows: TG Conformance #: [TITLE] conformance classes are shown using this style Technical Guidance Requirements and Recommendations notation Requirements and the recommendations for INSPIRE Spatial Data Services and services allowing spatial data services to be invoked within this technical guidance are highlighted and numbered as shown below: TG Requirement # requirements are shown using this style TG Recommendation # recommendations are shown using this style. Requirements and recommendations belong to the conformance class in which they are found in this document. Note: It is worth noting that requirements as specified in the INSPIRE Regulations and Implementing Rules are legally binding, and that requirements and recommendations as specified in INSPIRE Technical Guidance are not legally binding. Therefore, within this technical guidance we have used the terms ‘TG requirement’ and ‘TG recommendation’ to indicate what is technically required or recommended to conform to the Technical Guidance. XML Example notation XML Examples are shown using Courier New on a grey background with yellow for emphasis as below: <inspire:example> <inspire:highlight> Highlighted Text for emphasis </inspire:highlight> </inspire:example> Note: XML Examples are informative and are provided for information only and are expressly not normative. References References within this document are denoted using “Section” or “Annex”. For example, Section 5.3.1 or Annex A. References to other documents refer to the list of normative references in Section 1.1 and use the abbreviated title as indicated in Bold text. For example, [INS NS] uses the abbreviated title for the document as shown below: Commission Regulation (EU) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services. OJ L 274, 20.10.2009, p. 9
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