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Community Actions for Developing PSI in Europe

Andrej OSTERMANCommunication OfficerEuropean Commission

Information Society and media Directorate-generalDirectorate E, Information market Unit

ePSIplus Network Kick-off Meeting30-31 October 2006, Prague, Czech Republic

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Quick ride through the presentation

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Importance of PSI

• Cross-border impact• Economic value of PSI …

estimates• PSI has BIG potential for re-use

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Importance of PSI

• MEPSIR study done for the European Commission in 2006, by HELM and ZENC companies

• Market size for PSI in the EU range EUR 10 - EUR 48 billion

• Mean value EUR 27 billion

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Barriers to the re-use of PSI

• No culture of re-use among public sector bodies

• Lack of information on available PSI and conditions of re-use

• Competition issues• Different traditions, rules …

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Community action on the re-use of PSI

• Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of PSI

• Commission Decision 2006/291/EC on the re-use of the Commission information

• Co-financing (eContentplus programme)

• Awareness – PSI group, ePSIplus project …

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PSI Directive

• Adopted on 17 November 2003• Published in the OJ of the EU

and entered into force on 31 December 2003

• Deadline for implementation of the Directive into national law was 1 July 2005

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Implementation status on 23 October

Austria Partial notification Latvia Notification of transposition

Belgium No notification Lithuania Notification of transposition

Cyprus Notification of transposition Luxembourg No notification

Czech Republic Notification of transposition Netherlands Notification of transposition

Denmark Notification of transposition Malta Notification of transposition

Estonia Notification of transposition Poland Notification of transposition

Finland Notification of transposition Portugal No notification

France Notification of transposition Slovakia Notification of transposition

Germany No notification Slovenia Notification of transposition

Greece Notification of transposition Spain No notification

Hungary Notification of transposition Sweden Notification of transposition

Ireland Notification of transposition United Kingdom Notification of transposition

Italy Notification of transposition

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Re-use of Commission information

• The Commission Decision on the Re-use of Commission information was adopted on 7 April 2006

• Eurostat and EurLex portal• Commission’s “PSI group”

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Co-financing

• eContentplus programme: 2005-2008, EUR 149 million

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PSI group

• Since 2002 group meets twice a year

• Next meeting on 28 November 2006

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Other actions

• OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

• Initiatives in MS (Ireland, UK, Czech Republic …)

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Objectives

The objectives of the Communityactions: “… to facilitate the creation ofCommunity-wide information products andservices based on public sector documents,to enhance an effective cross-border useof public sector documents by privatecompanies for added value informationproducts and services and to limitdistortions of competition on theCommunity market, …”

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Next steps

• … apart from already mentioned

• Evaluation• Assessment • Concrete numbers

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ePSIplus project

• Information point• Spread of knowledge • Stimulate the debate • Motivate PSI holders and

possible re-users