Reports and Studies about Open data

The general report gives an update on how the EU is delivering on its 10 priorities, including the Digital Single Market.

This study aimed at collecting evidence on the impacts of the Database Directive in support of the Evaluation Report on the Database Directive, published by the European Commission on the 25th of April as part of the third data package.

The Commission held a consultation on the review of Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (PSI Directive) between June 2017 and late January 2018. This synopsis report presents the results of the consultation process and highlights the main findings gathered by the Commission.

The Evaluation Report on the Database Directive has been published on the 25th of April as part of the third data package. Within this evaluation context, the Commission carried out a public consultation between 24 May, and 30 August 2017. The aim of the consultation was to understand how the Database Directive, and in particular the sui generis protection of databases, is applied and what impact it had on users and makers. 113 replies were received (mainly from the publishing sector, the research and academic sector, the IT sector and the transport sector).

Considering the fast changing nature of the data market and the emergence of new trends, this study evaluates the performance of the PSI Directive and analyses how to make it relevant for the next 10 years. Based on the best data available, this study provides an assessment of the effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence and added value of the PSI Directive and builds on this to offer some policy options and perspectives for the future.

More than 30 participants attended the workshop on the study supporting the evaluation and impact assessment of the Public Sector Information re-use (PSI) Directive which took place in Brussels on the 16th of March.

The public consultation on the review of the Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (PSI Directive) ran from 19 September to 16 December 2017. This summary report takes stock of the contributions and presents preliminary trends that emerge from them, focusing on quantitative aspects.

The public consultation on the review of the Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (PSI Directive) ran from 19 September to 16 December 2017. This page shows the number of position papers received in the framework of this consultation.

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) provides basic capabilities that can be reused in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public services across borders and sectors. As the CEF programme comes to an end in 2020, it needs to be considered how these basic capabilities can be sustained in the long-term. This study assesses the most relevant and credible solutions to continue providing such capabilities.

On January 18th, 13 participants joined the European Commission and study team supporting the European Commission’s Review of the PSI Directive for a high-level discussion on the public-sector information re-use within the current legislative framework.