Sweden: new law on PSI reuse published!
Source: Ministry of Finance, Sweden and also via news alert by Fredrik Sands tweet
Sweden proposed Law on the re-use of the public administration: published
Stockholm: 25 February 2010
Sweden’s Finance Ministry (Finansdepartementet) has published a press release announcing the new proposed law that will correctly transpose the European Union Directive 2003/98/EC.
An approximate translation of the Swedish language press release states:
“Press Release February 25, 2010
Ministry of Finance
The Government is leaving the Council on Legislation for further use of public information
The Council on Legislation proposed a law on re-use of documents from the public sector. The Act governs, inter alia, conditions and charges that authorities apply for re-use of information. The law aims to promote the development of an information market by facilitating citizens' use of documents provided by authorities.
- I am glad that today we have taken a big step closer to a law for re-use of public information. The data collected or produced by the authorities can often be used by other actors in society and provide a basis for new services and businesses. For example, meteorological data used to develop weather services, spatial information can be used for various location-based services and the official statistics can be used to prove or disprove arguments in public debate, "said Local Government and Financial Markets Minister Mats Odell.
Public information from the Swedish authorities have long been used significantly for both commercial and non-profit purposes. Since the authorities have considerable information asset quality in electronic form, the potential for re-use much. It is the Government's opinion is important to improve conditions for the reuse of information from authorities in other areas of society, for both commercial and non-profit purposes.
The proposal will implement European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/98/EC of 17 November 2003 on re-using information from the public sector, the PSI Directive into Swedish law. The government will come back with proposals to encourage wider use of public information.
It is proposed that the Act comes into force on 1 July 2010.”
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The abstract states:
“The Council on Legislation proposed a law on re-using information from the public administration. The proposal will implement European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/98/EC of 17 November 2003 on re-using information from the public sector, the so-called PSI Directive into Swedish law.
The law aims to promote the development of an information market by facilitating the individual's use of documents provided by authorities on terms that may not be used to restrict competition. The law does not regulate the provision of documents or re-use is permitted. This is governed by other regulations, such as Freedom of the Press and publicity and the Secrecy Act (2009:400).
It is proposed that the Act comes into force on 1 July 2010.”
References
Lag om vidareutnyttjande av handlingar från den offentliga förvaltningen
(Law on the re-use of the Public Administration)
Date: 25th February 2010
Pages: 88
Contents
1 Decision
2 Draft Law on the re-use of the Public Administration
3 The case and its preparation
4 The Directive on the reuse of information from the public sector
4.1 The directive regulating
4.2 Implementation of the Directive
5 The need for a regulatory
6 Scope of the Act
6.1 Regulation of supply and re-use of documents
6.2 Scope of the Act in large
6.3 The concept of action
6.4 The concept of re-use
6.5 Entities covered by the Act
6.6 Some documents held by educational, research or cultural institutions
6.7 Exempt documents in business
6.8 Available formats
7 Fees
8 Conditions and exclusive rights
8.1 Conditions
8.2 Exclusive right to re-use information
9 Transparency and Disclosure
9.1 Information on charges and other conditions
9.2 Information on the documents for re-use
10 Requests and decisions on re-use
10.1 Consideration of a request for re-use
10.2 Justification of decisions
11 Appeal Decision
12 Entry into force etc.
13 Consequences
14 Constitutional Commentary
Annex 1 Parliament and Council Directive 2003/98/EC of November 17, 2003 on the reuse of information from the public sector
Appendix 2 Summary of the memorandum re-use of documents - the implementation of the PSI Directive (Ds 2009:44 )
Appendix 3 Legislative proposals in the memorandum re-use of documents - the implementation of the PSI Directive (Ds 2009:44 )
Annex 4 List of respondents