The ePSIplus Draft Pricing Questionnaire Athens, Greece, 21 November 2008 funded by eContentPlus

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire The ePSIplus Thematic Network agreed to: undertake a survey of PSI stakeholders to identify changes in pricing and charging practices immediately after the third PSI Pricing meeting. (Athens)

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire The process: Experts at the Athens meeting to consider and approve draft questionnaire Survey to be a WORD document downloadable from the ePSIplus web site. ePSIplus will all registered stakeholders on ePSIplus 27 Nov 08 ePSIplus will a request to all ePSIplus partners and PSI Associations 27 Nov 08 requesting them to disseminate amongst their members networks and encourage completion. Survey to be completed electronically and ed back to ePSIplus Time frame 8 weeks – close 26 January 2009 Summary report to be published on ePSIplus by 1 February 2009

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire The draft Questionnaire

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire This questionnaire is about the European Union Directive 2003/98/EC and the national law (or laws) that transpose the Directive within the European Union & European Free Trade Area Member States. (Active links to be inserted to the ePSIplus web site Directive linguistic variations and the Member State transpositions) The questionnaire covers the period July 2005 to November 2008 (41 months)

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire Question 1: Which country do you work & live in? Question 2: Do you work in the: Public Sector (YES/NO) Private Sector (YES/NO) Other (specify)

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire Question 3: Which thematic sector do you work in? (For example: Academic, Business Intelligence, Civil Engineering, Construction, Demographics, Education, Energy, Environment, Geographic, Health, Heritage, Hydrographic, Law & Order, Legal, Meteorological, NGO, Not employed, Public Administration, Research, Retired, Training, Transport, Utilities, Voluntary) Specify:

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire Question 4: Do you or your organisation re-use public sector information (YES or NO) Question 5: If you answered YES to question 4 – from which country or countries do you obtain the public sector information that is re-used?

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire Question 6: Are you familiar with the European Union Directive 2003/98/EC? (YES or NO) Question 7: Are you familiar with the Member State (Identified in Question 1) transposition of the EU Directive? (YES or NO)

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire Question 8: The expected outcome of the PSI Directive on prices and charges was a downward effect on charges and re-use conditions. In your opinion has this been the effect? (YES, NO or DO NOT KNOW)

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire Question 9: In you experience which of the following would you say are true. More PSI is available now at no financial charge. (True or Not True) Less PSI is available now at no financial charge. (True or Not True) More PSI is available at a financial distribution charge. (True or Not True) Less PSI is available at a financial distribution charge. (True or Not True) More PSI is available at a financial cost recovery charge. (True or Not True) Less PSI is available at a financial cost recovery charge. (True or Not True) There has been no perceptible change. (True or Not True) Overall there has been a downward trend in financial charges for PSI. (True or Not True) There has been an upward trend in financial charges for PSI. (True or Not True)

Athens meeting outline – PSI Questionnaire Question 10: With respect to your answer to Question 9 are you of the opinion that the change is due to the EU PSI Directive? (YES, NO, or OTHER state) Thank you for completing the questionnaire.

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