1. 1 Community Actions for Developing PSI in Europe Andrej OSTERMAN Communication Officer European Commission Information Society and media Directorate-general Directorate E, Information market Unit ePSIplus Network Kick-off Meeting 30-31 October 2006, Prague, Czech Republic

2. 2 Quick ride through the presentation

3. 3 Importance of PSI Cross-border impact Economic value of PSI … estimates PSI has BIG potential for re- use

4. 4 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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7. 7 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 …

8. 8 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 …

9. 9 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

10. 10 Implementation status on 23 October AustriaPartial notificationLatviaNotification of transposition BelgiumNo notificationLithuaniaNotification of transposition CyprusNotification of transpositionLuxembourgNo notification Czech RepublicNotification of transpositionNetherlandsNotification of transposition DenmarkNotification of transpositionMaltaNotification of transposition EstoniaNotification of transpositionPolandNotification of transposition FinlandNotification of transpositionPortugalNo notification FranceNotification of transpositionSlovakiaNotification of transposition GermanyNo notificationSloveniaNotification of transposition GreeceNotification of transpositionSpainNo notification HungaryNotification of transpositionSwedenNotification of transposition IrelandNotification of transpositionUnited KingdomNotification of transposition ItalyNotification of transposition

11. 11 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”

12. 12 Co-financing eContentplus programme: 2005-2008, EUR 149 million

13. 13 PSI group Since 2002 group meets twice a year Next meeting on 28 November 2006

14. 14 Other actions OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Initiatives in MS (Ireland, UK, Czech Republic …)

15. 15 Objectives The objectives of the Community actions: “… to facilitate the creation of Community-wide information products and services based on public sector documents, to enhance an effective cross-border use of public sector documents by private companies for added value information products and services and to limit distortions of competition on the Community market, …”

16. 16 Next steps … apart from already mentioned Evaluation Assessment Concrete numbers

17. 17 ePSIplus project Information point Spread of knowledge Stimulate the debate Motivate PSI holders and possible re-users