National Access Points
Article 3
1. Each Member State shall set up a national access point. The national access point shall constitute a single point of access for data users to the data listed in the Annex, including data updates, provided by the data holders as referred to in Articles 4 to 11 and concerning the territory of a given Member State. 2. Existing national or common access points that have been set up to comply with Article 3 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962 or with the requirements arising from other delegated acts adopted under Directive 2010/40/EU may be used as national access points for the purposes of this Regulation if deemed appropriate by the Member States. 3. National access points shall provide discovery services to data users, for example services allowing for the search of the requested data using the contents of the corresponding metadata and displaying such contents. 4. Public and private data holders shall ensure that they provide the metadata in order to allow data users to discover and use datasets via national access points. 5. Two or more Member States may set up a common access point. 6. Any entity providing data via the National Access Point can do so by proxy in accordance with applicable agreements, for example through a third party database or aggregator. This does not relieve the original data holder of responsibilities regarding the quality of the original data being provided.