12th Meeting of the PSI GROUP

Euroforum Conference room

Gran Duchy of Luxembourg

Friday, 12th June 2009

PSI Alliance

• A trade association of private sector companies and organisations

• Launched in January 2008

• Currently 20 members ( companies and associations ) from 11 countries

• Offices in Brussels and London

An agent for improvement and change

• To share private sector knowledge

• To support good practice and expose bad

• To encourage a dialog with authorities

• To secure a more dynamic, open and fairer marketplace for PSI re-use

• To influence the PSI regulations

Industry’s Perspective

PSI Alliance welcomes the publication of the Commission Communication

….being…..

a valuable contribution to the PSI debate

PSI Market place

Still to many barriers to re-use

have to be removed:

• Pricing (clear definition of marginal costs)

• Time limits

• Redress mechanism

• Licenses

• Competition issues

PSI Market place in Italy

Monopolistic attitude of PA

in treating information:

• PA does not provide neither ensure access to raw data

• PA defines as institutional new services so to provide value added services

• PA charges the re use at very high and unjustified prices

Cadastral and mortgage data

• The Land Register Office not only owns raw data, but provide monitoring value added services

• Monitoring service has been declared “institutional” by law

• Private companies willing to render the same service and gain access to the list of subjects shall pay a fee increased of the 500% since 2006

• As a consequence companies have been obliged to cease monitoring activity, with a loss of workforce of approximately 30%

Legal data

• Several attempts by PA, also in virtue of law provisions, to set up infrastructures aimed to provide the same value added services rendered by private companies

• Such attempts allegedly made to provide free access to citizens, in practice have always been addressed to professional users fully overlapping publishers activities

How to optimise the re-use of PSI …

• Reasonable time limit to secure access to data

• Independent PSI regulators and efficient redress mechanisms

• Asset lists

• Clear transparent and equal conditions for re-use

… and …

• Promotion of PSI re-use

• PSI available at marginal cost

• Standardised, simple and digital format licences

PSI Alliance goals

PSI Alliance’s membership is looking for both

a fair and level playing field in the PSI

marketplace, that enables re–users to access

raw data both at marginal cost and with few

restrictions and a more flexible and efficient

redress system

PSI Alliance position

• We need better definitions of the public task

• Access to “raw data” is important for the development of value added products

• Marginal cost based prices increases the re-use of PSI ( compare the OECD agreement )

• Better re-dress solutions necessary

Why this is so important?

PSI Market value (27 billion in Europe)PSI Market plays a key role in enhancing a knowledge driven economy based on the exchange of informationThis will ensure:

•real benefits for both the public and private sector and final consumers

•economic growth and cost reduction

•advanced and innovative services to citizens and enterprises

What PSI Alliance hopesbefore the 2012 review?

• New market study on the economic and social value of PSI

– which included an analysis of the effects of lower prices

and access to data

• Setting up a PSI Market Observatory, similar to the EU’s

Single Market Observatory

How the Commission can help?

• Better guidance and sharper regulation

• Pressure upon MS in setting out implications and

obligations to ensure that barriers are overcome

• Discrimination, high charges, complex licencing policies

have to been remove so to increase competitiveness,

create new jobs unlock the full potential of PSI

How PSI Alliance can help?

• Continuously feed in the PSI debate

• Share with the Commission our members’

expertise (best and worst practices)

• Help the commission in putting pressure upon MS

• Gathering best practices from different countries (Slovenia, Belgium, France.... )

• Participation in complaint processes ( Denmark, UK, Austria...... )

• Discussing a new PSI Law in Sweden

• Infringement process in Italy

PSI Alliance – just now

How Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici can help?

First of all, who are we?

• Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici is the Italian Federation that gives a common voice to all businesses that create technological, professional, managerial, and organizational innovation.

• The Federation, organized in 45 Industry Associations and 62 Local Organizations, represents 17,000 companies employing 600,000 workers.

• Altogether all the above sectors are a very significant part of the economy representing 18% of the Italian GDP.

Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e Tecnologici …..in a picture

What are we doing in Italy?

Working closely with the Italian Government to:

•find solutions to remove barriers to re-use

•finalize fair and transparent licence agreements for PSI re-users

•negotiate equitable and accessible prices

•define public tasks so to avoid anticompetitive behaviours

The infringement procedure

• The Italian Government has obtained a time extension to give the information requested by the Commission, now expiring on the 23rd of July

• The reasons for the extension is due to the different Italian Institutions involved

• We are keeping close contacts with the EU Affairs Department of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet and relevant PA Institutions

Luigi PerissichLuigi Perissichperissich@confindustriasi.it

Confindustria Servizi Innovativi e TecnologiciVia Barberini, 11 - 00187 Rome (Italy)

Av. de la Joyeuse Entrée – 1040 Brussels (Belgium)http://www.confindustriasi.it