OrganisationUnitScheme

In SDMX an Organisation Unit Scheme comprises a flat or hierarchical list of organisation units. Each maintenance agency can have multiple organisation unit schemes, and may have none. The identity of the organisation unit is a combination of the identity of the organisation unit scheme (which includes the maintenance agency) in which it resides and the identity of the organisation unit in that scheme.

The Organisation Unit plays no direct role in support of the functionality of SDMX systems as documented in the technical standards (whereas Agency, Data Provider, and Data Consumer do play a distinct role). Therefore, this type of organisation can play any role and have any behaviour that is internal to the systems that use it.