London: 25 August 2010

The final report on all the work undertaken by the European Commission PSI Group working groups on Economic Indicators and Case Studies on PSI Pricing models has been published.

• Final Report: by Christopher Corbin, Facilitator (Version 2, 34 pages, PDF Format), see attachment to this page

The report was produced by Christopher Corbin facilitator of the European Commission initiated economic indicators working groups. It is a comprehensive report fully explaining the context under which the working groups were established, how the groups operated, membership of the groups and the issues discussed are outlined. The outcomes of the working groups are summarised in two parts: Public Sector Information Economic Indicators and the Public Sector Information Economic case study on charging models.

The report is published on ePSIplatform Library Reports page along with complete documentation reporting on the deliberations of each of the working groups.

The framework for the economic indicators working groups originated in the the European Commission Communication on the implementation of the re-use of public sector information framework Directive 2003/98/EC that was published on 7th May 2009 and reported that the European Commission would undertake a series of economic studies at the European level.

The European Commission led PSI Group considered this proposal at the 12th meeting of the PSI Group on the 12th June 2009. The decision was to hold a further meeting which took place on the12th November 2009 and considered the way forward with respect to measuring the economic benefit obtained from re-using public sector information.

During the months from November 2009 through to March 2010 the Commission together with the facilitator undertook further desk research, developed terms of reference for each working group and actively worked to recruit volunteers.

The working groups which were active during the period March to May 2010 were as follows.

• Address Information
• Cadastral Information
• Meteorological Information
• Charging models

In the final report, the facilitator thanks the experts who participated in the working groups for their contributions and willingness to work in an open friendly but constructive way when debating topics during the numerous electronic interchanges by email. There were no in person meetings of these groups and the groups worked mainly by email. Such involvement in the working groups contributed to the successful outcomes reported to support the European Commission to prepare the next steps in commissioning further economic research on the re-use of public sector information.

A number of the members of the working groups subsequently participated and sat on the roundtables of the open public meeting held in Madrid on the 9th June 2010. The meeting enabled the working group members to raise and discuss with the audience and those remotely participating in the meeting the issues related to assessing the economic potential arising from the re-use of public sector information. The meeting was jointly organised by the European Public Sector Information Platform together with the Spanish Aporta Project. The theme of the meeting was: “Realising the Value of Public Sector Information”.

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