National Law or Contract MS - NAP

<b>Parties</b>: Member State and Content Provider.  <br/><b>Objective</b>: To identify  Content Providers and set up obligations of the Content Provider s.<br/><b>Form</b>: National law implementing the ITS Directive and direct execution of EU Regulations and Delegated Acts. <br/><b>Obligations:</b><br/><ul>
<li>Member State to Content Provider: ---</li><li>Content Provider to Member State:</li></ul>
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<li>To ensure that data is provided in a correct format to the content consumers under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) conditions.</li><li>To publish relevant information about data/services (e.g., metadata) and information on the data quality at the NAP.</li><li>To provide data compliant with the EU requirements (provide self-declaration towards the NAP and National BodyNational Body and assistance in case further proof of compliance is required).</li><li>To ensure that required data is updated at the appropriate and recommended time intervals.</li><li>To provide a description of the data, digital map or real-time traffic information services they provide as well as the information on the quality thereof and the conditions of re-use of these data and an evidence-based declaration of compliance to the National BodyNational Body.</li><li>To cooperate in the compliance assessment process.</li></ol>
<br/><br/><br/><b>Reference to the EU law: </b><br/>The obligations of the content provider are related to the following laws:<br/><ul>
<li>National law transposing 2010/40/EU (ITS Directive)</li><li>886/2013 (SRTI)</li><li>885/2013 (SSTP)</li><li>2015/962 (RTTI valid until 31. December 2024)</li><li>2017/1926 (MMTIS)</li><li>2022/670 (RTTI  in force from 1. January 2025)</li><li>2023/1804 (AFIR)</li><li>National law transposing 2023/2661 (ITS Directive amendment)</li><li>2024/490 (MMTIS amendment)</li></ul>
<br/><b>Selected references to the law:</b><br/><ul>
<li>For the sole purposes of providing the information service, public and private road operators and/or service providers <b>shall </b>set up or use the means to detect events or identify conditions, and shall collect the relevant road safety-related traffic data. The deployment of these means shall comply with the conditions and requirements set out in national law. [886/2013, art. 6].</li><li>Public and/or private road operators and/or service providers shall share and exchange the data they collect pursuant to art. 6 of DR 886/2013. For that purpose, they shall make these data available in the DATEX II (CEN/TS 16157) format or any fully compatible and interoperable with DATEX II machine-readable format through an access point [886/2013, art. 7].</li><li>Public or private parking operators and service providers shall share and exchange data referred to in paragraph 1 of art. 4 of DR 885/2013. For these purposes, they shall use DATEX II (CEN/TS 16157) format or any DATEX II compatible international machine-readable format. Data shall be accessible for exchange and reuse by any public or private information service provider and/or parking operator on a non-discriminatory basis and in accordance with access rights and procedures defined in Directive 2003/98/EC [885/2013 art. 5].</li><li>Road authorities and road operators, in cooperation with digital map producers and service providers (any public or private provider of a real-time traffic information service, excluding a mere conveyer of information, to users and end-users), shall ensure that they provide the appropriate metadata in order to allow users to discover and use the datasets to which access is provided through the national access points [2015/962 art. 3].</li><li>The travel and traffic data listed in the Annex and the corresponding metadata including information on the quality thereof shall be accessible for exchange and reuse within the Union on a non-discriminatory basis, via the national access point set up in accordance with Article 3 and within a timeframe allowing reliable and effective reuse of the data. Such data shall be accurate and up to date and based on minimum data quality requirements [2024/490 art. 8].</li><li>The data referred to in paragraph 1 and the corresponding metadata including information on the quality thereof shall be accessible for exchange and re-use by any data user within the Union:</li></ul>
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<li>(a) on a non-discriminatory [2022/670, art. 4, par 2, art. 5, par 2]</li><li>(a) on a non-discriminatory basis when provided by road authorities and road operators; [2022/670, art. 6 par 2, art. 7, par 2]</li><li>(b) following minimum quality requirements that Member States shall agree upon in cooperation with relevant stakeholders;</li><li>(c) within a time-frame fitting to the reliable and effective use of the data to create real-time traffic information;</li><li>(d) via the national or common access point referred to in Article 3;</li></ol>
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<li>National Body (competent authorities of the Member States) may request from the data holders and travel information service providers the following documents: [2024/490 art. 9]</li></ul>
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<li>a description of the travel and traffic data accessible via the national access point, the information on the quality thereof and the conditions of reuse of that data;</li><li>a description of the travel information services available including connections with other services where applicable;</li><li>an evidence-based declaration of compliance with the requirements set out in Delegated Regulations;</li><li>the licence or contractual agreements with travel information service providers.</li></ol><p/>