1. Charging for Public Sector Information according to the directive 2013/37/EC Dr. Georg Hittmair, 18th February 2015 TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION1

2. Charging provisions and their relevance for PSI re-use TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION2 Studies prove high price elasticity of demand (If pricing changes, the demand changes too) In particular, small emerging companies are price sensitive Pricing influences enforcement of other provisions Pricing influences downstream market (=data value chain)

3. Development of PSI charging provisions TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION3 Government End-user Beside the standard access regimes

4. Suppliers Aggregators Enrichers DevelopersDistributors Intermediaries create various information products Information products are designed according to the needs of other players in the market Additional Data value chains will emerge

5. TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION5 Value creation by intermediaries Raw data costs Enduser price Marginal cost of reproducing etc. Cost of collection, production, Charging according to Directive 2003/98/EC (cost recovery)

6. TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION6 Charging according to Directive 2013/37/EC (Article 6) Value creation by intermediaries Enduser price Marginal cost of reproducing etc. Raw data costs

7. TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION7 General principle Directive 2013/37/EC (Article 3) creates broad scope of application Accessible documents are generally re-usable

8. TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION8 Other provisions are easy to accept for the PSBs if their income is not dependent upon PSI charging Licensing (Perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable and non-exclusive rights, Article 8) Transparency (Article 7) Practical arrangements (Article 9) Non-discrimination (Article 10) Prohibition of exclusive arrangements (Article 11)

9. TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION9 Job creation and taxation results

10. TITEL DER PRÄSENTATION10 Recommendations for the transposition process in the Member States Minimum application of exceptions according to article 6.2 of the Directive. Narrow and clear definition of PSBs and documents according to Article 6 (2) a and 6 (2) b. In case of cost recovery calculation application of the net cost principle according to the Commission Guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets and charging.