Czech Republic: Exclusive Arrangements study
Summary
Date
Action
31.12.03
Directive 2003/98/EC enters into force in the European Union
1.07.05
Directive 2003/98/EC enters into force in Member States
23.06.06
Commission notifies Czech Republic has transposed
31.12.08
Existing exclusive arrangements must be phased out
10.12.09
Commission announces launch of study
25.03.10
Commission receives study report
20.05.10
Commission makes study public
Elapsed time since notice first given: 76+ months approximately
Elapsed time since transposition (Austria): 45+ months approximately
Transparency: Moderate (Czech Republic), Commission (Moderate)
PSI policy implementation: Poor
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“The Executive Summary of the report titled: PSI: Identification of potential Exclusive Agreement – Czech Republic. Summary Country report states:
This Final Summary Country Report provides a detailed overview of the activities carried out and the results of the study of the potential existence of exclusive agreements (EA) between Czech public sector bodies (PSBs) and Public Sector Information (PSI) re-users in the context of the PSI Directive.
The research has been carried out between 14th December 2009 and 17th March 2010. It included 26 central PSBs (mainly ministries and their directorates and information agencies) and 46 re-users within the most important PSI Domains in the Czech market (business, geographic, legal, meteorological, social statistical and transport information).
The validation process has resulted in the identification of two potential Exclusive Agreements, which were subject to the legal assessment of an expert from the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno. A preliminary legal assessment suggests that both of the identified potential EAs may be possibly of an exclusive nature, and therefore void in terms of Article 11 of the Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (PSI Directive). The first identified EA was found in the Transport information domain, the second one in the Business information domain.
The general opinion of the consulted PSI re-users leads to the conclusions, that in all likelihood, there are no other existing EAs in the Czech Republic and that this issue is not the biggest barrier to a transparent PSI market. Vice versa, obtaining PSI and the completeness and quality of the raw data is considered to be a barrier to the Czech PSI market development.”
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Title: PSI: Identification of potential Exclusive Agreement – Czech Republic. Summary Country Report
Version: 1.1
Authors: EPMA -Agentura pro evropské projekty a management
Date: 25 March 2010
Pages: 16
Table of contents
Executive summary
1. Introduction
2. Background, objectives and approach of the study
2.1 Background of the study
2.2 Objectives and approach
3. Crucial factors and steps of the implementation process
3.1 Identification of relevant Information Market Domains (IMD), Public Sector Bodies and PSI re-users
3.2 Information retrieval on main PSBs in the selected domains
3.3 The validation process within Czech PSI re-use market
4. Results of the study & conclusions
4.1 Analysis of responses received
4.2 Actions taken and further details on EAs identified
Annexes
Annex 1 – Inception Report
Annex 2 – Excel sheet with data on PSBs and re-users contacted and results obtained
Annex 3 – Materials sent out
Annex 4 – Standard info sheet with the details on 1st identified EA
Annex 5 – Standard info sheet with the details on 2nd identified EA
Exclusive Arrangements: Czech Republic
Page last updated: 20th May 2010
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