PRIMET calls for changes to PSI Directive
Sherborne St John, UK: 14 February 2011
The European Association of Private Meteorological Services (PRIMET) has published the Associations final submission to the European Commissions consultation on the review of the PSI re-use Directive 2003/98/EC. The document titled
The document titled: 2012 Review of Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament sets out the case that within the meteorological value added sector, the effects of the present Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive 2003/98/EC are the restraint of market development through excessive pricing of PSI (real time and historical meteorological data) and the distortion of the market through unfair competition.
The document contains a number of worked examples in France, Luxembourg and Poland that demonstrates why PSI re-use in the European meteorological sector has not grown as expected.
The principal recommendations made by PRIMET to the Directorate in relation to the review of the PSI Directive are:
a) All PSI should be available for re-use except on the grounds that its release would prejudice national security
b) All PSI should be disseminated for re-use in a manner that is timely and effective having regard to the purpose for which it is intended.
c) If charges are levied for the re-use of PSI, they should normally be restricted to the costs of re-formatting (if required by the user) and supply. Public sector bodies should be required to publish the calculation basis they apply for such charges and independent audit appeal bodies should be established in each member state in order to ensure that costs are assessed in an equitable manner as proposed in the EC Communication
d) Public Task, which affects many of the provisions of the Directive should, for the purposes of the Directive, be clearly defined in such a way as to avoid unfair competition between the public and the private sectors.
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