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12 Amendments of Ioannis A. TSOUKALAS related to 2011/0430(COD)

Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Data and information produced by Member States' governments, the public sector and EU institutions and bodies, constitute a vast, diverse and valuable pool of resources that can benefit the knowledge economy.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
(2) Open data policies which encourage the wide availability and re-use of public sector information for private or commercial purposes, with minimal or no legal, technical or financial constraints, can play an important role in kick-starting the development of new services based on novel ways to combine and make use of such information, stimulate economic growth and promote social engagement. However, this requires a level playing field at Union level in terms of whether or not the re-use of documents is authorised, which cannot be achieved by leaving it up to the different rules and practices of the Member States or the public bodies concerned.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
(3) Allowing re-use of data and documents held by a public sector body adds value for the re- users, for the end users and, for the society in general and in many cases for the public body itself, by promoting transparency and providing feedback from re- users and end users which allows the holder to improve the quality of the information collected.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
(7) Directive 2003/98/EC should therefore lay down a clear obligation for Member States to make all generally available documents, as well as the European Union institutions and bodies, to make all generally available documents re-usable and to generate all such future documents with a view of being re-usable. As it constitutes a limitation to the intellectual property rights hold by the authors of the documents, the scope of such a link between the right of access and the right of use should be narrowed to what is strictly necessary to reach the objectives pursued by its introduction. In this respect, taking into account the Union legislation and Member States' and Union's international obligations, notably under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement), documents on which third parties hold intellectual property rights should be excluded from the scope of Directive 2003/98/EC. If a third party was the initial owner of a document held by libraries (including university libraries), museums and archives that is still protected by intellectual property rights, that document should, for the purpose of this Directive, be considered as a document for which third parties hold intellectual property rights.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
(10) The scope of application of the Directive is extended to libraries (including university libraries), museums, public bodies managing archaeological and cultural sites and archives. The Directive does not apply to other cultural institutions, such as operas, ballets or theatres, including the archives that are part of these institutions.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The European Union institutions and bodies should lead by example in the re-use of public sector information, thus transforming information management across the public sector, promoting best practices and developing innovative technology solutions.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 b (new)
(10b) The application of the Directive is extended to regional governments and local authorities, which constitute a particularly valuable source of public service data.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
(11) To facilitate re-use, public sector bodies should make documents available through machine readable formats and together with their metadata where possible and appropriate, using open standards where possible, in a format that ensures interoperability , e.g. by processing them in a way consistent with the principles governing the compatibility and usability requirements for spatial information under Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)23
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
(13) In relation to any re-use that is made of the document, public sector bodies may, where practicable, impose conditions on the re-user, such as acknowledgment of source. Any licences for the re-use of public sector information should in any case place as few restrictions on re-use as possible. Open licences available online, which grant wider re-use rights without technological, financial or geographical limitations and relying on open data formats, may also play an important role in this respect. Therefore, Member States should encourage the use of open government licences that enable free re- use, including commercial re-use.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) Each member state shall make public service information easily available through a central point of access, such a national PSI portal, thus ensuring that datasets are easy to find and exploit both nationally and across-borders. The European Commission shall create a central European repository of its own public service information that should also act as a gateway to national PSI portals.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point 3
Directive 2003/98/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) documents held by cultural establishments, other than libraries, museums, public bodies managing archaeological and cultural sites, and archives;
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 12
Directive 2003/98/EC
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Member States shall submit a yearly report to the Commission on the extent of the re- use of public sector information, the conditions under which it is made available and the work of the independent authority referred to in article 4(4).The Commission shall publish yearly a relevant scoreboard including performance indicators for the re-use of public sector information.
2012/10/01
Committee: ITRE