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ePSIplus Final Thematic Meeting
La Documentation Française - 3rd February 2009 - Paris
Introduced by
Michael FanningOnline Consultants International GmbH
Karlsruhe
PSI in Europe – The Road(s) Ahead!
Key sector – action plan 3:
Legal, business and other information sectors
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Publisher/Legal information provider
Legal information provider
Law firm
Information provider
Publisher/Business information
Media companies
Service providers
Legal and administrative information – Actors and performance
PSI Re-users (legal) are various:
Actors: Performance:
Income from PSI re-users (legal) varies: Publisher/Legal information
provider
Legal information provider
Some respondents reported growth in
revenues attributable to PSI re-use
(legal) in hundreds of percent.
Service providers
Revenues in supplementary business
have doubled since 2002.
Source: EU PSI Re-use 2008 Study, MICUS, page 82
Reference:
Since 2002, estimates for the growth of the LTR market in Europe have usually lain in a range of between 0 to 15 %.
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Legal and administrative information – Paradox and diversion 79% of the PSI holders (legal) interviewed offer
legislative and administrative information free of charge via the internet.
84% of the PSI re-users (legal) draw upon web portals for legal or administrative information on a weekly or less basis.
Yet only 38% of PSI re-users were satisfied with the web portals.„The message from the survey here is that all stakeholders involved in the re-use of
legal and administrative information must take care not to regard the formal
requirement upon a public body to disseminate information as synonymous with an
approval or permission to re-use the information. Just because legal and administrative
information is disseminated to the public domain does not mean in practice that
conditions have been laid down for its re-use.“ (Emphasis added)Source: EU PSI Re-use 2008 Study, MICUS, page 85
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Business information – Example: Annual financial statements
France Germany Italy Spain Sweden United Kingdom
Organisation
Service Infogreffe eBundes-anzeiger
InfoCamere Registradores Mercantiles
Bolagsverket Companies House
Nameof the organisation
Infogreffe Télématique
Bundesanzeiger Verlag
InfoCamere – Società
Consortile per Azioni delle Camere di Commercio
Colegio de Registradores
de la propriedad y
Mercantiles de España
Bolagsverket Companies House
Executive Agency
Legal form of the organisation
Public bodyNetwork
coordinator
Private enterprise with public
service mandate
Public bodyNetwork
coordinator
Public bodyNetwork
coordinator
Public bodyAgency
Public bodyAgency
Availability
Option:Complete data set
No (Due to legal
considerations)
YesPDF / XML /
XBRL
YesPDF
No (Due to techn.
reasons)
YesImage / PDF /
XBRL
YesTIFF / PDF
Pricing
Option:Complete data set
Option not available
Prices available
upon request
€3.50 per document and only in
Option not available
€2.14 per document in XBRL format
€32,366
Source: oci GmbH
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Business information – Interoperability initiatives within the EU
See: http://www.briteproject.net/
BRITE stands for
Business Register Interoperability Throughout Europe.
BRITE is an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission, DG Information Society & Media.
BRITE involves a consortium of 22 organisations including European Business Registers and Chambers of Commerce, IT Companies, Universities and SMEs.
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Business information – What have been the drivers of change? Harmonisation of Company Law in Europe
Migration away from paper-based to electronic filing
Reduction of the administrative burden on SME’s
Re-use of company information has been an
additional benefit rather than a real driver of change.
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Other information – Example: PSI procured by respondents
County councils‘ information
Environmental information
Highway schemes
Local authority information
Planning enforcement information
Road information
Town planning and local land charges
Examples of administrative information that respondents to the
EU PSI Re-use 2008 study have procured included: Trade register information
Official bulletins
Information on tenders
Resolutions of local authorities and town councils
Practice guidelines
Resolutions of Ministries and other executive bodies
Building regulations
Contaminated land regulations
Source: EU PSI Re-use 2008 Study, MICUS, page 80
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Other information – Example: PSI desired by resondents
PSI Re-user Category
Examples of PSI desired
Publisher / Legal information provider
Courts of AppealCases from regional courtsCase law of first instanceAdministrative courts
Legislation with annexesParliamentary informationMinisterial information
Legal information provider
Regional legislationMinisterial information
Decisions of lower instance courts
Law firm Decisions of specialised courts Decisions of lower instance courts
Information provider Parliamentary information EU and national legislation
Publisher / Business information
Commerce RegisterLand Register
Brand Register
Media company Single click access to PSI
Service provider Building regulations / controlHighway schemesHighway works scheduleTraffic schemes
EU law alertsEnvironmental informationEnvironmental register
Source: EU PSI Re-use 2008 Study, MICUS, page 83
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PSI Re-user Category
Examples of PSI desired
Publisher / Legal information provider
Courts of AppealCases from regional courtsCase law of first instanceAdministrative courts
Legislation with annexesParliamentary informationMinisterial information
Legal information provider
Regional legislationMinisterial information
Decisions of lower instance courts
Law firm Decisions of specialised courts Decisions of lower instance courts
Information provider Parliamentary information EU and national legislation
Publisher / Business information
Commerce RegisterLand Register
Brand Register
Media company Single click access to PSI
Service provider Building regulations / controlHighway schemesHighway works scheduleTraffic schemes
EU law alertsEnvironmental informationEnvironmental register
This was the only actual request for a single click
access to PSI.
The other respondents knew or seemed to know what they were looking
for.
Other information – Example: PSI desired by resondents
Source: EU PSI Re-use 2008 Study, MICUS, page 83
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Complaint of the requesting organisation:
Business information companies and lawyers
use citizen registration data to obtain
information on people who have moved. Up
until July 2008 both business information
companies and lawyers have been able to
obtain the data. Now the data is no longer
being made available to business information
companies but is still available to lawyers.
It is not yet clear why there has been such a
change in data policy. Note, too that the cities
of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen generate yearly
revenues of €220,000 and €170,000
respectively from the sale of citizen
registration data.
See:
http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/13/0,3672,7302733,00.h
tml
Requested information: Problems:
Other information – Example: Citizen Registration Data
1. Requesting organisation
2. Requested information
Citizen registration information
Citizens are obliged to register in their locality
Regulated by the “Melderechtsrahmengesetz”
A general right of access is provided for
3. PSI Holder
Approx. 5.500 individual “Einwohnermeldeämter”
There is no central database of such data
See: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/consultations/replies/stakeholders/verband_vereine_creditreform.pdf
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The Roads Ahead – What action to take at the junction?
?
CAUTION:
There is still
as much
potential
for
divergence
as there is
for
convergence!
JUNCTION:
EU PSI Directive
Review Process
2008
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The Roads Ahead – Proposals for context and example actions Consolidate, strengthen and expand the emerging PSI
networks
ACTION: IWG-Netzwerk in Germany, MoU with ePSIplus programme, PSI Alliance and other
associations.
ACTION: Appoint network hub as a central resource. A role for the ePSIplus “one-stop-shop”?
Sensitize eGovernment programmes to the PSI re-use agenda.
ACTION: Each network rolls out a PSI checklist to be distributed to eGovernment programme
coordinators.
ACTION: EU (alone or with partner) issues PSI Guidance Notes and/or even PSI Implementation
Handbook.
Position PSI re-use (and use) with innovation and the effective management of information risk
ACTION: Conference to promote a PSI test bed for companies analagous to the MySociety.org in
the UK.
ACTION: Networks issue White Paper on the need to know information assets to assess
information risk.
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Thank you for your interest
For further information please contact:
Michael FanningManaging Director
Online Consultants International GmbHUnterreut 6
76135 Karlsruhe
Tel: +49-721-92 12-909Fax: +49-721-92 [email protected]
http://www.oci-gmbh.com
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