[GSDI Legal Socioecon] Revising the EU's PSI re-use Directive

[Roger Longhorn]

Hi all,

 From the LAPSI project today - considering that (a) all government 
geospatial data is first and foremost PSI (Public Sector Information) 
and (b) the many debates and pilots on-going with open access to geo 
PSI, this may be of interest, at least to our EU members.

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This morning Neelie Kroes announced in a press conference the future of 
Directive 2003/98/EC on PSI Re-Use.

Please find the entire speech here: 
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/player/streaming.cfm?type=ebsvod&sid=192681 
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Please find complementary material of essence here:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/index_en.htm

among which you find:

- A survey on existing findings on the economic impact of public sector 
information conducted by the European Commission in 2011 (Vickery study) 
the overall direct and indirect economic gains are estimated at €140bn 
throughout the EU. Increase in the re-use of PSI generates new 
businesses and jobs and provides consumers with more choice and more 
value for money;

- A Communication on Open Data (provisional version);

- A proposal for a revision of the Directive (provisional version);

- A proposal for a revision of the Commission's rules on access to the 
information it holds (provisional version).

Kind Regards,

Cristiana Sappa
Project Manager, LAPSI, www.lapsi-project.eu, and EVPSI, www.evpsi.org
Postdoctoral Researcher, Torino Law School
Research Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society, http://nexa.polito.it

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One of the objects of the LAPSI project and related projects such as 
ePSInet and ePSInet+ are/were to collect information to inform the 
European Commission about potential changes needed for the 2003 PSI 
re-use Directive, for which provision is made in the original Directive. 
The three new documents refereed to above concerning such revision and 
the Open Data draft Communication, are available from the link provided 
in all EU official languages.

Kind regards

Roger Longhorn
ral at alum.mit.edu