Name of law Law for access to spatial data Name of the Bill a Bill to access spatial data reception date 24/02/2010 number/year Official Gazette 19/2010 Decree No 48

On the grounds of art. 98, paragraph 4 of the Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria

I DECLARE:

To be published in the Official Gazette the law for access to spatial data, adopted by the National Assembly of the HLI 24 February 2010.

Issued in Sofia on March 4, 2010.

The President of the Republic: Georgi Parvanov

Stamped with the State seal.

Minister of Justice: Margarita Popova

LAW

to access spatial data

Chapter one

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Art. 1. (1) this Act regulates the construction, maintenance and use of the infrastructure for spatial information, providing access to the spatial data and the provision of services for the data in the field of the environment or activities which may have an impact on the environment by ensuring compatibility and reliability when exchanging data.

(2) the infrastructure for spatial information metadata includes arrays of spatial data and spatial data services, network services and technologies; agreements for the Exchange, access and use; mechanisms for coordination and supervision; processes and procedures implemented, managed or provided under this Act by the authorities or third parties under art. 4, al. 1 and 2.

(3) As part of the infrastructure for spatial information in para. 2 subject to the law are arrays of spatial data that meet the following conditions:

1. are in electronic form;

2. they act by or on behalf of the authority, after they are created or received by the authority or managed or updated by that authority and falling within the scope of public functions or of third parties, if they maintain arrays of spatial data that comply with the requirements of this Act;

3. refer to one or more of the themes set out in annexes 1, 2 or 3.

Art. 2. the purpose of the law is to establish the rules establishing an infrastructure for spatial information, providing access to the spatial data and the provision of services for the data in the field of the environment or for activities that may have an impact on the environment by ensuring compatibility and reliability when exchanging data.

Art. 3. (1) the law does not apply to working with paper documents related to the creation of the public records and arrays of spatial data on paper.

(2) the Act does not create an obligation for the collection of new spatial data.

(3) the law shall not affect the rights of intellectual property of the persons under art. 4, al. 1. (4) the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 may use data from arrays of spatial data – the subject of intellectual property rights, only with the consent of the holders of those rights.

Art. 4. (1) this law shall be applied by the organs of executive power, bodies of local self-government and bodies which, by virtue of the act together, create and maintain up-to-date databases of spatial data in connection with the activities of these powers and provide public services.

(2) third parties, outside of the persons referred to in para. 1 may provide created and maintained by their spatial data and services for them within the framework of the infrastructure for spatial information.

(3) where multiple identical copies of the same massive spatial data are maintained by or on behalf of other persons under para. 1 and 2, the provisions of this law shall apply only to the initial version of the array data, of which copies were made.

(4) the persons referred to in para. 1 in the performance of their public functions, which may have an impact on the environment, may conclude agreements on Exchange of arrays of spatial data and services for such data.

(5) the exchange of arrays of spatial data and services for such data is done through the national spatial data portal.

Art. 5. access to the spatial data and services is public and may be limited under the conditions and in accordance with this law.

Chapter two

INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SPATIAL INFORMATION

Section I

Spatial data

Art. 6. (1) the spatial data are all data that directly or indirectly indicate the specific location or geographic area.

(2) the spatial data with similar thematic characteristics relating to type of spatial objects are merged into arrays.

(3) Spatial Data Types, their characteristics, the method of support and provide services for them are regulated in the law on cadastre and land registry, the Water Act, the law on mineral resources, the law on geodesy and cartography and in other special laws regulating spatial data within the meaning of this Act.

(4) the infrastructure for spatial data include only data in electronic form.

(5) in order to ensure interoperability of spatial data relating to a geographical entity that covers the borders of the Republic of Bulgaria and one or more Member States of the European Union, description and position of general entities can be drawn up in cooperation with the State border on the basis of a bilateral or multilateral agreement.

Art. 7. (1) the address as the theme of spatial data under art. 6 includes: country data; area; municipality; location; locality; neighborhood; Street; number; block; input; floor; private object in the building.

(2) the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 are required to ensure the timeliness of the data referred to in para. 1 and access services to them.

Art. 8. (1) any information, including data, codes and technical classifications, needed for compliance with the implementing rules laying down technical requirements for the interoperability and, where appropriate, the harmonization of arrays of spatial data and services shall be made available to the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 under conditions that do not restrict its use for this purpose.

(2) the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 provide assurance as to the quality of supported by them updated spatial data and services to access them.

Art. 9. For the harmonisation of spatial data, existing or novos″zdavani, use the reference information arrays of spatial data in the territory of the country on the topics in accordance with Annex 1.

Section II

Metadata

Art. 10. (1) the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 create metadata for comparision of spatial data and services in accordance with the themes under annexes no. 1, 2 and 3 by a description of the information contained in the arrays and spatial data services.

(2) the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 manage, maintain and update the metadata in accordance with spatial databases and services for them in a way that allows their discovery, aggregation and use.

Art. 11. (1) the metadata contain keywords, classifications, quality indicators, validity of data arrays, data on the compliance with the technical requirements for interoperability, the limitations of public access and the reasons for these limitations, conditions for access to and use of spatial data and services, as well as the corresponding charges, where these are provided for in a special law, and information about the authority, organisation or persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2.

(2) the requirements for creating and maintaining metadata for arrays of spatial data, a sequence of arrays of spatial data and spatial data services are contained in Commission Regulation (EC) no 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata (OJ L 326/12 by 4 December 2008).

Section III

National spatial data portal

Art. 12. (1) National spatial data portal provides access to spatial data, metadata, and services for the spatial data from different sources in a uniform manner.

(2) the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 provide access to supported data, metadata, and services of the national spatial data portal.

(3) National spatial data portal provides services relating to the reference data arrays.

(4) National spatial data portal is built and managed by the Executive Agency "electronic communication networks and information systems" to the Minister of transport, information technology and communications.

Art. 13. Through the national spatial data portal is implemented with link geoportala the infrastructure for spatial information in the European Community (INSPIRE).

Chapter three

SPATIAL DATA SERVICES

Section I

Services

Art. 14. (1) the persons under art. 4, al. 1, which collect and maintain up-to-date spatial data and metadata, provide the following services: 1. facilities for finding, allowing search of arrays of spatial data and services for such data on the basis of the content of the corresponding metadata and presenting the content of the metadata;

2. Services for consideration, allowing at least: presentation, navigation, increase/decrease, a selection of panoramic views, or overlapping of the arrays of spatial data and information about the legend and other relevant content of metadata;

3. download services, enabling copying of arrays of spatial data or parts of these arrays, and, where applicable, providing direct access to them;

4. Services for transforming, allowing the transformation of arrays of spatial data, with a view to achieving interoperability;

5. facilities for accessing spatial data services;

6. facilities for the provision of metadata.

(2) the services under para. 1 shall be made available through the national spatial data portal, Internet network or other appropriate electronic communications networks.


Art. 15. (1) the services for the spatial data are public.

(2) Services for the spatial data under art. 14, para. 1, item 1 are free.

(3) spatial data services under art. 14, para. 1, item 2-6 are free, unless a special law provided otherwise.

(4) where in a special law shall provide for fees for the services under para. 3, their size may not exceed the minimum amount needed to guarantee the quality and delivery of spatial data and services for such data.

Art. 16. (1) For services under art. 14, para. 1.1 as a minimum the following combination of search criteria:

1. the keywords;

2. classification of spatial data and services;

3. the quality and validity of spatial data;

4. the degree of conformity with the implementing rules provided for in the acts of the European Union, introduced by this law, laying down the technical requirements for interoperability of spatial data and services;

5. geographical location;

6. conditions for access to and use of arrays of spatial data and services for such data;

7. the persons under art. 4, al. 1, responsible for the establishment, management, maintenance and distribution of spatial data and array of facilities for such data.

(2) the services referred to in art. 14, para. 1, item 4 are combined with services under art. 14, para. 1, item 1 – 3, 5 and 6 in such a way that their management in accordance with the implementing rules provided for in the acts of the European Union, introduced by this law, laying down the technical requirements for interoperability of spatial data and services.

(3) Services under art. 14, para. 1 2 may be provided in kind, prevents re-use for commercial purposes.

Art. 17. (1) restricting access to services under art. 14, para. 1, item 1, shall apply from the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2, where such access would adversely impact on international relations, national security or public order.

(2) restrict access to the services under art. 14, para. 1, item 2-6 shall be applied by the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2, where such access would adversely affect any of the following cases:

1. the confidentiality of the work of the authorities, when such is provided for in law;

2. international relations, national security or public order;

3. the activity of the organs of the Executive and the judiciary;

4. confidentiality of commercial or industrial information, where such confidentiality is provided for by law;

5. intellectual property rights;

6. confidentiality of personal data of individuals in accordance with the law on protection of personal data, where those persons have not given consent for their public disclosure;

7. protection of the environment to which the information relates, such as the location of rare species and others;

8. in the case of endangerment or impairment of legal rights and interests of natural and/or legal persons who have provided the information requested on a voluntary basis, without being legally obliged to do so, unless they have consented to disclosure of relevant information.

(3) not limited access to data and services related to information on emissions into the environment.

(4) the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 issue motivated act to restrict access to services under art. 14, para. 1 in the cases referred to in para. 1 and 2, on a case by case basis taking into account the public interest served by providing this access.

(5) the acts referred to in paragraph 1. 4 include:

1. name of the person referred to in art. 4, al. 1 and 2, which issue or adopt the Act;

2. name of the Act;

3. the addressee of the Act;

4. the factual and legal grounds for the issue of the Act;

5. the regulatory part, refusing access;

6. before any authority and by the Act can be challenged;

7. date and signature of the person issuing the Act of identifying his position.

(6) the acts referred to in paragraph 1. 4 are individual administrative acts within the meaning of art. 21, para. 1 of the administrative code and are subject to appeal in accordance with the procedure laid down therein.

Section II

Interoperability and standards

Art. 18. (1) the spatial data services, which carry out the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 shall be made available to ensure interoperability in accordance with the law on e-governance.

(2) Services for the spatial data that the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 available in the European Union, shall be provided to ensure interoperability in accordance with the law of the European Union in this area.

Chapter four

REGULATION AND CONTROL

Art. 19. (1) the Minister of transport, information technology and communications carries out the State policy in the field of infrastructure for spatial information.

(2) the Minister of transport, information technology and communications: 1. draw up and submit for adoption by the Council of Ministers for development strategies and programmes of the national infrastructure for spatial information;

2. coordinate the implementation of the programmes and implementation of European Union legislation relating to spatial data.

Art. 20. (1) the Minister of transport, information technology and communications performs the functions of the national authority for contact with the European Commission on issues related to the harmonisation of the conditions for access to national spatial data from the European Union.

(2) in the exercise of its powers under para. 1 the Minister of transport, information technology and communications shall establish and provide documents and reports required by the European Commission, including periodic reports, which reflect the performance of control functions under this Act.

(3) the Minister of transport, information technology and communications sent to the European Commission report which contains:

1. ways of coordination between providers, users of arrays of spatial data and services for such data, ways of making a connection with third parties and the organisation of quality assurance;

2. the contribution of the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 to the functioning and coordination of the infrastructure for spatial information;

3. information on the use of the infrastructure for spatial information;

4. agreements for the exchange of data between the persons under art. 4, al. 1;

5. costs and benefits of establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the European Community (INSPIRE).

(4) every three years, the Minister of transport, information technology and communications sent to the European Commission report under para. 3 with the updated information.

(5) the reports referred to in para. 2 and 3 are published on the website of the Ministry of transport, information technology and communications.

Art. 21. (1) the Minister of transport, information technology and communications has authority to regulate and control the infrastructure of spatial data.

(2) in the exercise of its powers under para. 1 the Minister of transport, information technology and communications:

1. control and coordination on the work of the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 in connection with the application of the law and the normative acts for its implementation;

2. gives enforceable by the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 requirements for the implementation of the law;

3. control and coordination on the work of the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 on the application of the regulations on the spatial data of the European Union;

4. issue methodical guidelines on the application of the law.

Art. 22. (1) the Minister of transport, information technology and communications take measures: 1. allow unhindered access of the persons under art. 4, al. 1 to arrays of spatial data and services for such data and Exchange and use of these arrays and services for the purposes of his public functions;

2. provide exchange of arrays of spatial data and services for such data for use by the other Member States of the European Union, and by the institutions and bodies of the European Union with a view to carrying out their public functions, which may have an impact on the environment.

(2) Exchange the Al. 1, item 2, on the basis of reciprocity and equality is provided so that it is possible for bodies created by international agreements to which the European Union and the Member States of the European Union are parties, with a view to the carrying out of tasks that may have an impact on the environment.

(3) the exchange the Al. 1 2 may be limited when it would have an adverse impact in some of the following areas:

1. implementation of judicial activity;

2. the national security, public policy and international affairs.

(4) the Minister of transport, information technology and communications:

1. create and maintain a classification of spatial objects in accordance with the law of the European Union in this area;

2. supervise the construction, maintenance and use of the national portal for spatial data;

3. supervise the construction, maintenance and use of the infrastructure for spatial information in accordance with this law.

Art. 23. in the exercise of its powers under this Act, the Minister of transport, information technology and communications is supported by: 1. An Executive Agency "electronic communication networks and information systems";

2. The Interagency Council for spatial data, hereinafter referred to as the "Interministerial Board."

Art. 24. (1) the Mežduvedomstveniât Board under art. consists of 23 members appointed by bodies of executive power, which are the primary administrators of the spatial data.

(2) the President of the Interministerial Council, the Minister of transport, information technology and communications or an official authorised by him and the Vice-Presidents are Deputy Minister of environment and water and the Deputy Minister of regional development and public works or empowered by these officials.


(3) to perform specific tasks with Mežduvedomstveniât Council decision defines the expert committees and groups.

(4) Mežduvedomstveniât Tip:

1. assist the Minister of transport, information technology and communications in the implementation of the methodological manual on the construction, deployment, development, maintenance and use of the infrastructure for spatial information;

2. proposals concerning the activities of the persons under art. 4, al. 1 with regard to the provision of access to the spatial data and services for them.

(5) the Council of Ministers shall adopt its rules of procedure, structure and organization of the work of the Interministerial Board on the proposal of its Chairman.

(6) the administrative services of the Interministerial Council is carried out by the administration of the Ministry of transport, information technology and communications.

Chapter five

ADMINISTRATIVNONAKAZATELNA RESPONSIBILITY

Art. 25. (1) an official or person under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 who contravenes or fails to comply with an obligation under art. 7, para. 2, art. 8, al. 2, art. 10, 11, art. 12, al. 2, art. 14, art. 17, al. 1-3, art. 18 and art. 21, para. 2, item 2, shall be punished with fine or penalty payment.

(2) fines for officials are in size from 1000 to 5000 BGN, and for the persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 fine or pecuniary penalty in size from 5000 to 30 000.

(3) When the offence is committed in a second penalty from 5000 to 10 000 BGN, and the proprietary sanction – from 10 000 to 100 000 LEVs.

(4) for violation of this law and of licences issued on the basis of the acts for which no penalty is otherwise provided for, be imposed a fine or penalty payment in the amount of 500 to 5000 EUR

Art. 26. (1) the infringements are noted acts, made up of officials appointed by order of the Minister of transport, information technology and communications.

(2) on the basis of the intervention instruments, the Minister of transport, information technology and communications or authorised by him shall issue official penalties.

(3) the drafting of the instruments and the issue of penal provisions for administrative breaches under this Act, as well as their appeal and performance are carried out according to the order of the law for the administrative offences and sanctions.

ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS

§ 1. Within the meaning of this law:

1. "spatial data administrator" is the authority, as well as the natural or legal person who provide public services for the spatial data.

2. "an array of spatial data" is a finite set of spatial data.

3. "metadata" means information describing spatial data and an array of facilities for spatial data, enabling their discovery, aggregation and use.

4. "interoperability" is the possibility of combining the spatial data and the interoperability of services, using a uniform technological standards and processes without repetitive manual intervention, in order to achieve consistent results and to increase the added value of the array of data and services.

5. "authority" means:

a) body of the Executive power or the local government, including advisory bodies at national, regional and local levels that support the activities of the organs of executive power and local self-government;

(b)) a natural or legal person performing public functions under the legislation in force, including specific duties, activities or services related to the environment;

c) the natural or legal person providing public services relating to the environment under the control of the authorities and the persons referred to in letters "a" and "b".

6. "repeated violation" is a disorder that is carried out within one year of the entry into force of the Decree, which was imposed a penalty for the same offence.

7. "Spatial object" means an abstract representation of the objectively existing reality, granted by related to a specific location or geographic area.

8. "the Primary administrators of spatial data" are authorities that collect, create, maintain and update databases of spatial data.

9. "reference informative array of spatial data" is a standardized set of spatial data, established in accordance with the requirements of this Act and intended for adaptation of information arrays.

10. "third party" is a natural or legal person other than the authority.

11. data download services "are those that provide a copy of the array of spatial data or parts of these arrays, and, where applicable, providing direct access to them.

12. "Service to find are those that provide search arrays of spatial data and services for such data on the basis of the content of the corresponding metadata and presenting the content of the metadata.

13. "services for the spatial data" are operations that can be performed by using the computer application on the spatial data contained in spatial data array or on the related metadata.

14. "view data services" are those which provide for: presentation, navigation, increase or decrease, a selection of panoramic views or overlapping of the arrays of spatial data, as well as providing information about the legend of the metadata and other content.

15. "transformation services" are those that provide for transforming arrays of spatial data with a view to achieving interoperability.

§ 2. This law introduces provisions of 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) (OJ L 108/1 of 25 April 2007).

TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

§ 3. The Council of Ministers shall, within three months of the entry into force of the law, shall adopt its rules of procedure of the Interministerial Council on spatial data.

§ 4. The Minister of transport, information technology and communications forwarded under art. 20, para. 3 the European Commission before 15 May 2010.

§ 5. The persons under art. 4, al. 1 and 2 create the metadata referred to in art. 10 in accordance with the requirements of this Act within:

1. by December 3, 2010-for arrays of spatial data corresponding to topics in accordance with annexes 1 and 2;

2. until 3 December 2013 – the array corresponding to the spatial data themes referred to in annex No. 3.

The law was adopted by 41-Otto National Assembly on February 24, 2010 and is stamped with the official seal of the National Assembly.

President of the National Assembly Tsetska Tsacheva:

Annex No 1 to art. 1, al. 3, item 3, art. 9 and art. 10, para. 1

1. Coordinate systems

A unique system for referring to spatial information, presented with coordinates (x, y, z) or latitude and longitude and altitude, based on a geodetic horizontal and vertical data set.

2. System for geographic networks

Harmonized network with multispatial resolution, with a common starting point and standardised location and size of the cells.

3. geographical names

Names of geographical areas, regions, localities, hydrographic and orographic objects, landscapes, architectural and natural reserves.

4. Administrative units

Administrative units, separated by administrative boundaries and areas on which deliminating the Member States of the European Union, have and/or exercise the legal powers for the purpose of local, regional and national governance.

5. addresses

Location, which contains data for at least: State, County, municipality, location, name of street, square or Avenue respectively, residential complex, district number, login, floor number of a private entity in the name of building area.

6. Cadastral estates

Part of the Earth's surface, including permanently covered with water, defined by borders in accordance with the law of property.

7. Transport networks

Road, rail, air and water transport networks and related infrastructure. Include links between different networks. Also includes the trans-European transport network identified in decision No 1692/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network and future revisions of that decision.

8. Hydrography

Hydrographic elements, including marine areas and other water tables and related items, including river basins and sub-basins. Where appropriate, in accordance with the definitions set out in Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, and in the form of networks.

9. Protected sites

Area designated or managed in accordance with international law, European Union law or the laws of the Member States of the European Union, to achieve certain objectives for the protection of such sites.

Annex 2 to the art. 1, al. 3, item 3 and art. 10, para. 1

1. Relief

Digital relief models for ground and the icy surface and the relief of the seabed. Includes landscape, batimetriâ and coastline.

2. Land cover

Physical or biological cover of the Earth's surface including artificial surfaces, agricultural areas, forests, (semi-) natural areas, wetlands, water tables.

3. Ortoizobraženie

Georeferirano image data of the Earth's surface, made from satellite or aerial photos.

4. Geology

Geology, defined according to composition and structure. Includes ground layer (consolidated and non-consolidated rocks), the aqueous layer (aquifers), and morfostrukturni elements and forms of relief.

Annex 3 to the art. 1, al. 3, item 3 and art. 10, para. 1

1. Statistical units

Units, disseminating or using statistical information.

2. Buildings

Geographical location of buildings.

3. Soil


Soils and podpočvi, defined according to depth, texture, structure, mechanical composition and content of organic materials, kamenlivost, erosion and, where appropriate, medium gradient and an alleged vodopopivaemost.

4. Land use

Territory, defined according to its current and future planned functional parameters or socio-economic purpose (e.g. residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural, forestry, recreational).

5. human health and safety

Geographical distribution of prevalent pathologies (allergies, cancers, respiratory diseases, etc.), information on the effects on human health (biomarkers, decline of fertility, epidemics) or well-being of humans (fatigue, stress, etc.) linked directly (air pollution, chemicals, the thinning of the ozone layer, noise, etc.) or connected indirectly (food, genetically modified organisms, etc.) with the quality of the environment.

6. Municipal and public facilities

Include infrastructure for utilities, such as irrigation systems, waste management, electricity supply and water supply, administrative and social public services such as public administrations, civil protection sites, schools and hospitals.

7. facilities for environmental monitoring

The location and operation of facilities for environmental monitoring include the observation and measurement of emissions, of the State of environmental factors and of other ecosystem parameters (biodiversity, ecological conditions of vegetation, etc.) carried out by the authorities or on their behalf.

8. Production and industrial facilities

Industrial sites, including installations covered by Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, and the abstraction facilities, mining facilities, warehouse objects.

9. Agricultural and water development facilities

Equipment for farms and production facilities (including irrigation systems, greenhouses and stables).

10. Population distribution-demography

Geographical distribution of the population, including population characteristics and activity levels, presented a summary on the grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.

11. management of territory/limited/regulated areas and units

Areas managed, regulated or used for reporting at international, European, national, regional and local level. Include inventory objects, sanitary-protective zones around water sources for domestic water supply against pollution caused by nitrates vulnerable zones, controlled sea passages or major inland waterways, waste storage areas, areas with restrictions on noise, exploratory and mining areas, river basin districts, relevant reporting units and coastal zone management areas.

12. Natural risk zones

Vulnerable areas laid down depending on the type of natural hazard (all atmospheric, hydrological, seismic, volcanic and fire phenomena which, because of the location, the strength and frequency of manifestation can seriously affect society), e.g. floods, landslides and subsidence of land masses, avalanches, forest fires, earthquakes, eruptions of volcanoes.

13. Atmospheric conditions

Natural weather conditions. Includes spatial data based on measurements, on models or on a combination of the two, as well as locations where measurements are made.

14. Meteorological geographical features

Weather conditions and their measurements; precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration falls within, the speed and direction of the wind.

15. Maritime regions

Physical conditions of seas and saline water tables, divided into regions and sub-regions with common characteristics.

16. Biogeographical regions

Areas of relatively homogeneous ecological conditions with common characteristics.

18. Habitats and biotopes

Geographical areas characterised by specific ecological conditions, processes, structure, and (životopodpomagaŝi) features supporting the natural organisms that inhabit them. Includes terrestrial or aquatic areas distinguished by completely natural or semi-natural geographical, abiotic and biotic features.

18. Distribution of species

Geographic distribution of animal and plant species presented a summary on the squares, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.

19. Energy sources

Energy sources, including hydrocarbons, hydropower, bio-energy, solar energy, wind energy and others. Where appropriate, include information on the depth/height of the source.

20. Mineral resources

Mineral resources including metal ores, industrial minerals and others. Where appropriate, include information on the depth/height of the deposit of the resource.

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