10.12.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 331/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS 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 THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, (4)  First, the requirements concerning code lists should be amended in order to allow a flexible approach for describing code list values at different levels of detail and to provide for the technical arrangements for Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European sharing the extended code lists. Union, (5)  Second, the restriction of spatial properties to the Simple Having regard to Directive 2007/2JEC of the European Feature spgﬂal schema should be relaxed in order to Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing allow making available also 2.5D data. an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) ('), and in particular Article 7(1) thereof, (6)  Third, an additional metadata element should be introduced in order to enable the identification of the Whereas: spatial representation type used for a data set. . lati ‘ (7)  Fourth, the ‘Geographical grid systems’ spatial data theme (1)~ Commission Regu aFlonl (EU), NO_ 1989/ 2010 o should be extended in order to accommodate a multi- 23 November 2010 implementing Dlrectlve-2007/2/EC resolution grid based on geographic coordinates. of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services (%) sets out the technical arrangements for interoperability of spatial data sets Felated to the spatial data themes in (8)  Fifth, the ‘Administrative units’ spatial data theme should Annex I to Directive 2007/2/EC. be extended in order to describe maritime administrative units. (2)  In order to ensure the full interoperability of spatial data sets, it is appropriate to set out th? technical (9)  Sixth, in order to avoid overlaps with spatial object types arrangements for Fhe mteroperab{hty of spatial data sets specified for spatial data themes of Annexes Il and III to re.late(i. to the spatial data themes in Annexes Il and III to Directive 2007/2[EC, certain candidate types should be Directive 2007/2[EC. removed from the ‘Administrative Units” and the ‘Hydro- graphy’ spatial data themes. (3)  In order to ensure the overall consistency of the technical arrangements for the interoperability of spatial data sets (10)  Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 should therefore be included in this Regulation, the existing technical amended accordingly. arrangements for the interoperability of spatial data sets related to the spatial data themes in Annex I to Directive 2007/2[EC should be amended. (11)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in () ) L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1. L 323, 8.12.2010, p. 11. accordance with the opinion of the Committee estab- lished by Article 22 of Directive 2007/2[EC,