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

Charging for Public Sector Information according to the directive 2013/37/EC

Dr. Georg Hittmair, 18th February 2015

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Charging provisions and their relevance for PSI re-use

• 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)

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Development of PSI charging provisions

Government End-user

Beside the standard access regimes

Suppliers Aggregators Enrichers Developers Distributors

• 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

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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)

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Charging according to Directive 2013/37/EC (Article 6)

Value creation by intermediaries

Enduser price

Marginal cost of reproducing etc.Raw data costs

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General principle Directive 2013/37/EC (Article 3) creates broad scope of application

Accessible documents are generally re-usable

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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)

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Job creation and taxation results

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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.