1. PSI PRICING 3 ePSIplus overview PART 1 & Meeting overview Chris Corbin ePSIplus Analyst Athens, Greece, 20.11.08 funded by eContentPlus

2. www.ePSIplus.net Monitoring of PSI – Re-use within Europe ePSINetCee (Monitoring EU10) 1 March 2004 to 30 September 2005 (18 months ) ePSIplus (Monitoring EU27) 1 September 2006 to 28 February 2009 (30 Months) ePSINet (Monitoring EU15) 1 August 2002 to 31 January 2005 (30 months) Contract to EC (Monitoring EU27) 1 March 2009 to 28 February 2011 (24 Months) European Commission Almost 9 years continuous monitoring 2002 through to 2011 Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) – ICT Policy Support Program – Proposed work programme 2009 includes Theme 6 Public Sector Information (likely funding €9.5 million) Objective 6.1: Legal aspects of Public Sector Information (Thematic Network) Objective 6.2: Geographic Information The future Current The past - completed + Athens hosted final conference January 2005 INVITATION TO TENDER 5.07.08 - "EUROPEAN PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION (PSI) PLATFORM"

3. www.ePSIplus.net The ePSIplus Thematic Network The time interval That is monitored by ePSIplus ePSINet + ePSINetCee EU PSI Directive 2003/98/EC Political Review 2004200520062007 1.07.05 Member States comply 20082009 PSI directive came into force 31.12.03 We are here! ePSIplus MEPSIR Micus Study ePSI++? Economic growth due to PSI Re-use? Commission Decision 2006/291/EC 20.04.06 ePSIplus Conference 13.06.08

4. ePSIplus - Thematic meetings - evidence building www.ePSIplus.net ThemeMeeting 1Meeting 2Meeting 3 LegalLegal issuesExtending the Directive - Cultural Heritage Legal redress Public Sector Culture PPPCapacity building - training etc. Future Action Private Sector Opportunity Role of Associations Towards an IAG (PSI Alliance) Role of Competition Authorities FinancePSI Pricing 1PSI Pricing 2PSI Pricing 3 Info. Mgmt.PSI managementAsset Registers (Meta data) Interoperability Topic for each thematic meeting

5. ePSIplus - Meetings - Thematic priorities 1Network kick off meeting held in Prague, 30/31 October 2006 15 Thematic cross-border meetings (3 per thematic area) –Legal & Regulation theme Meeting 1: 16 February 2007, Hague, Netherlands (Report published) Meeting 2: 10 - 11 September 2007, Paphos, Cyprus (Report published) Meeting 3: 8 May Ljubljana Slovenia (Report published) –Public Sector Organisation theme Meeting 1: 11 April 2007, Prague, Czech Republic (Report published)) Summary Report Meeting 2: 8 October 2007, Bratislava, Republic of Slovakia (Report published)) Published Meeting 3: Converted to final conference 1 – 3 February 2009? Paris –Encouraging PSI re-use business theme Meeting 1: 31 August 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark (Report published) Meeting 2: 19 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium (Report published) Meeting 3: 11 November 2008, Berlin, Germany –Pricing impact theme Meeting 1: 19 - 20 April 2007, Helsinki, Finland (Report published) Meeting 2: 1 - 2 November 2007, London, UK (Report published) Meeting 3: 20 - 21 November 2008, Athens, Greece –Standards theme Meeting 1: 5 July 2007, London, UK (Report published) Meeting 2: 26 November 2007, Riga, Latvia (Report published) Meeting 3: 12 September 2008, Madrid, Spain All the materials from the meetings are available on the ePSIplus web site www.ePSIplus.net Red - means the meeting has taken place or is taking place

6. ePSIplus - Meetings - National 35 National, Federal and Cross-border meetings –Cyprus 20 February 2007 (Report published) –France 14 June 2007 (Report published) –Iceland 5 September 2007 (Report published) –Netherlands 27 September 2007 (Report published) –Finland 2 October 2007 (Report published) –Ireland 25 October 2007 (Report published) –UK 30 October 2007 (Report published) –Slovenia 7 November 2007 –Germany 6 December 2007 (Report published) –Belgium 11 December 2007 (Report published) –Hungary 13 December 2007 (Report published) –Slovakia 14 December 2007 –Czech Republic 23 January 2008 –Latvia 25 January 2008 (Report published) –Malta 8 February 2008 –Lithuania 21 February 2008 (Report published) –Austria 4 March 2008 –Spain 31 March 2008 –Bulgaria 17 April 2008 –Greece 21 May 2008 –Estonia 23 May 2008 (Report published) –Iceland_2 4 September 2008 –Portugal 19 September 2008 –Denmark 27 November 2008 –Sweden 11 December 2008 Conference to test recommendations for change 13 June 2008, Brussels All the materials from the meetings are available on the ePSIplus web site www.ePSIplus.net Red - means the meeting has taken place or is taking place

7. www.ePSIplus.net Sampling experiences (gathering evidence) Considering Comparing Concluding 1.Draft 2.QA 3.Publish The meeting Setting the scene Meeting report 115 Presentations 424 experts ePSIplus - One stop shop to PSI The evidence base (web site) Assigned ePSIplus Analyst Experts that attended meeting ePSIplus Meetings: Evidence base Thematic meetings completed: 13 out of 15 Accumulative Total National meetings completed: 21 out of 35 13 reports published 1146 experts Accumulative Total Assigned ePSIplus Analyst 198 Presentations Combined accumulative total: - 337 presentations - 1738 experts attended meetings - 25 reports - 35 meetings + Conference + Iceland2 By end of project estimate: - Presentations 410 - Experts 2200 - Reports 50 11 Reports published

8. ePSIplus - The One Stop Shop to PSI Live: 27.09.06 Objective: To become the first port of call for information on PSI re-use www.ePSIplus.net Home page Total number of news items posted: 1178

9. ePSIplus - The One Stop Shop to PSI Objective: To become the first port of call for information on PSI re-use www.ePSIplus.net

10. ePSIplus - The One Stop Shop to PSI www.ePSIplus.net

11. Reaching the ePSIplus recommendations The ePSIplus process: Build up the evidence base Analyse the evidence Draft recommendations Test against stakeholders (Conference) Finalise and submit recommendations

12. ePSIplus - 12 recommendations plus supporting evidence has been published & submitted to the European Commission review www.ePSIplus.net The ePSIplus recommendations

13. ePSIplus overview & Meeting overview PART 2 Chris Corbin ePSIplus Analyst Athens, Greece, 20.11.08 funded by eContentPlus

14. www.ePSIplus.net PSI Directive: EU27 transposition time analysis Denmark Estonia Finland France Ireland Poland Slovakia Slovenia Sweden UK Belgium Czech Republic Greece Hungary Italy Latvia Lithuania Netherlands Cyprus Germany Malta Romania Austria Bulgaria Luxembourg Portugal Spain Sweden Denmark Poland?

15. www.ePSIplus.net PSI Directive: Status within the European Union All 27 Member States have notified transposition

16. www.ePSIplus.net PSI Directive: Status within the EFTA Member States Iceland Norway Switzerland Liechtenstein

17. Theme: description The effects of the Directive on the PSI value chain, on costs, access and organisation within the public sector, including remedies for budget loss as a result of new charging policies. Developments in pricing and charging policies: emerging impact and approaches toward free of charge access, marginal costs charging, ‘reasonable return on investment’ policies etc Impact of varying fiscal and public sector cost-recovery approaches across Europe ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges www.ePSIplus.net

18. ePSIplus PSI Pricing meetings Meeting 1 – Helsinki 19 & 20 April 2007 Meeting 2 – London, 1 & 2 November 2007 Meeting 3 – Athens, 20 & 21 November 2008 The third meeting in the PSI Pricing series has been deliberately scheduled to be one year after the second meeting that was held in London for two reasons: To provide time for the impact of the Directive to be felt across all Member States. To follow the European Commissions review of the Directive which closed on 15 th September 2008. The review included an economic study of three PSI re- use domains: geographic, legal and meteorological. Unfortunately the Commission has not yet published any materials from the Consultation or the results of the economic survey undertaken on the Commissions behalf by MICUS. www.ePSIplus.net

19. Athens meeting objectives To consider: Price regulation; Determining charges for PSI re-use; The impact these charges have on the down stream PSI re-use market; Processing of PSI re-use complaints that relate to charges for re-use; Setting and monitoring of the financial regimes used by public sector bodies. Sustainability of the public sector body where charges are not levied – that is the data and information is available for re-use for no financial charge or for only the cost of sending it to the PSI re-user. www.ePSIplus.net

20. Athens meeting outline www.ePSIplus.net Introduction The evidence Consider the evidence & agree conclusions All the materials from the meeting will be placed on the ePSIplus web site on the 23 November 2008

21. Athens meeting outline – evaluating the evidence www.ePSIplus.net Experts in attendance that have not made a presentation to lead Considering the evidence presented Categorising and dissecting the issues presented. Has the Directive had the expected outcome? Categorising and dissecting the issues presented. Has the Directive had the expected outcome? Developing the Pricing questionnaire All the materials from the meeting will be placed on the ePSIplus web site on the 23 November 2008 The ePSIplus Thematic Network agreed to undertake a survey designed to identify changes in pricing and charging practices immediately after the third PSI Pricing meeting.

22. PSI Directive The expected outcome on prices and charges A downward effect on charges and re-use conditions Question How does one determine whether the change in prices and charges if detected are as a result of the PSI Directive? www.ePSIplus.net ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

23. What might impact prices and charges? Fiscal policy (Government financial policy) A policy change A change of Government (Political) Technological advances Competition (From other data providers) Modernising government Structure of public sector (constantly changing) EU PSI Directive Regulation (Competition, Monopoly…) Temporal Public sector culture, behaviour www.ePSIplus.net ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

24. The PSI Directive Article 13 Review 1 The Commission shall carry out a review of the application of the Directive before 1 July 2008 and shall communicate the results of this review, together with any proposals for modifications of the Directive, to the European Parliament and the Council. 2 The review shall in particular address the scope of this Directive, including the extent of the increase of public sector documents, the effects of the principles applied to charging and the re-use of official texts of a legislative and administrative nature, as well as further possibilities of improving the proper functioning of the internal market and the development of the European content industry. ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges www.ePSIplus.net

25. PSI Directive Article 6 Principles governing charges Where charges are made, the total income from supplying and allowing re-use of documents shall not exceed the cost of collection, production, reproduction and dissemination, together with a reasonable return on investment. Charges should be cost-oriented over the appropriate accounting period and calculated in line with the accounting principles applicable to the sector bodies involved. www.ePSIplus.net ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

26. www.ePSIplus.net PSI Directive Recital 14 Where charges are made, the usual income should not exceed the total costs of collecting, producing, reproducing and disseminating documents, together with a reasonable return on investment, having due regard to the self-financing requirements of the public sector body concerned, where applicable. Production includes creation and collation, and dissemination may also include user support. Recovery of costs, together with a reasonable return on investment, consistent with applicable accounting principles and the relevant cost calculation method of the public sector body concerned, constitutes an upper limit to the charges, as any excessive prices should be precluded. The upper limit for charges set in this Directive is without prejudice to the right of Member States or public sector bodies to apply lower charges or no charges at all, and Member States should encourage public sector bodies to make documents available at charges that do not exceed the marginal costs for reproducing and disseminating the documents. ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

27. www.ePSIplus.net Data can be made available: No charge - Free (no financial transaction involved). A marginal cost charge. A charge - where the charge for data can be based upon: –Collecting –Producing (creation and collation) –Reproducing –Dissemination (user support) –ROI (Return on Investment) ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

28. PSI Directive Article 6 Principles governing charges Issues to be considered: How would a potential PSI re-user know that these conditions have been met? What is, and how would one detect the accounting period that has been adopted in the pricing regime? How would one access the efficiency of the organisation? If there is no competition how will one determine whether the price is value for money? www.ePSIplus.net ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

29. PSI Directive Article 7 Transparency Any applicable conditions and standard charges for the re-use of documents held by public sector bodies shall be pre-established and published, through electronic means where possible and appropriate. On request, the public sector body shall indicate the calculation basis for the published charge. The public sector body in question shall also indicate which factors will be taken into account in the calculation of charges for atypical cases. (not conforming to the usual type or expected pattern) www.ePSIplus.net ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

30. www.ePSIplus.net If the PSI price appears high to a potential re-user - what might the reason be? Efficiency? (or lack of!) No cost-price base? (unit cost accounting not in use) Abuse of position? Lack of understanding? (Ignorance!) A method of regulating demand? (price is used to deter re-use) Lack of skills within organisation? Over specified? The above needs to be considered in the context that many public sector bodies are defacto monopolies. ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

31. PSI Directive Article 10 Non-discrimination 1.Any applicable conditions for the re-use of documents shall be non- discriminatory for comparable categories of re-use. 2. If documents are re-used by a public sector body as input for its commercial activities which fall outside the scope of its public tasks, the same charges and other conditions shall apply to the supply of the documents for those activities as apply to other users www.ePSIplus.net ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

32. www.ePSIplus.net A public sector data organisation C A Statutory function B Trading function Company aCompany x A charges B the same price as C for re-use. A charges C the same price as B for re-use. Private sector data companies Example: Public sector organisation that has a public good and commercial role ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

33. www.ePSIplus.net ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges Standard Annual Report (Financial) All Public Sector Annual Report Public Body x Annual Report Public Body 3 Annual Report Public Body 2 Annual Report Public Body 1 Annual Report 1+x Variants of the Standard Annual Report Example of issues: The structure of the public sector Enforcement Transparency Information loss Scaling problem Level playing field between Public and private reporting The diffusion effect Set (Reviewed) annually by Ministry of Finance Similar processes: Internally within an organisation Within Private Sector Private Sector Company Group EU legislation best practice for Company Groups operating in EU Question: Why are Public Bodies Accounts Commercial in confidence?

34. www.ePSIplus.net ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges Policy (Financial) PSI Re-user Public Sector Information Holder Effective policy: Open loop or closed loop? Feedback Process Regulator?

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