[GSDI Legal Econ] [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: Towards a stronger European market in applied meteorology]]

[Roger Longhorn]

For those who don't have access to the subscription only service w.r.t. 
the meteorology market paper Kate notified us of earlier, the e-mail 
from the author points to an updated version, for free.

http://www.primet.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=35

http://www.primet.org/file/PSI%20in%20European%20Meteorology%20-%20an%20unfulfilled%20potential_distribn%20copy(1).pdf

Thanks to Kate for pointing this out to me/us.

Kind regards

Roger

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Date: 	Tue, 5 May 2009 13:20:53 +0100
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Roger

I wrote it!!

But thanks anyway. There is an update to the market figures in a more recent
paper "PSI in European meteorology - an unfulfilled potential" (Proc 7th
eeGov Days Conference Prague April 2009 - in press). Copy can be found at
www.primet.org 

Richard

Dr R.E.W. Pettifer MBE FRMetS CMet CEnv
General Secretary, PRIMET
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Longhorn [mailto:ral at alum.mit.edu] 
Sent: 04 May 2009 20:22
To: primet at dsl.pipex.com
Subject: [Fwd: [GSDI Legal Econ] Towards a stronger European market in
applied meteorology]

Dear Dr. Pettifer,

Thought this might be of interest, in case you had not seen it.

Kind regards

Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu
co-Chair, GSDI Association Legal & Socioeconomic Working Group

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[GSDI Legal Econ] Towards a stronger European market in 
applied meteorology
Date: 	Mon, 4 May 2009 03:13:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	Kate Lance <klance_remote at yahoo.com>
To: 	SDI-Europe <sdi-europe at lists.gsdi.org>, SDI-legal-econ 
<legal-econ at lists.gsdi.org>

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118677468/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETR
Y=0 

Towards a stronger European market in applied meteorology

Assessments of the potential size, actual size and growth rate of the 
European market in value-added meteorological products and services are 
brought up to date and set in their historical context. The results show 
that the European market is orders of magnitude below its overall 
potential size and has grown very slowly over the past decade. These 
findings raise interesting and important questions about the structure 
of the market. In particular, the role of the National Meteorological 
Services acting simultaneously as quasi monopoly data suppliers to the 
private sector and as product producers in competition with that sector 
introduces serious distortions to the market, which restrict market 
growth for all the players. The underlying reasons for this are analysed 
and it is concluded that the most significant contribution to the 
realization of a strong and growing market would be the treatment of the 
upstream meteorological data as Public Service Information (PSI), a 
genuine public good available to all downstream players at the marginal 
cost of handling and dissemination. The distortions arising from the WMO 
Cg XII Resolution 40 and ECOMET and serious flaws in the provisions of 
the EC Directive 2003/98EC are considered and it is shown that the 
current net loss to national exchequers in terms of taxation, which 
could be returned from the sector, is around 100 million Euros per annum 
to which can be added the social costs associated with the failure to 
grow the employment in the sector to its full potential.

[Source: Meteorological Applications, Volume 15 Issue 2, Pages 305 - 
312, not an open access journal]