8 Amendments of Evelyne GEBHARDT related to 2018/0111(COD)
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The public sector in the Member States collects, produces, reproduces and disseminates a wide range of information in many areas of activity, such as social, economic, geographical, weather, tourist, business, patent and educational information. Documents produced by public sector bodies of executive, legislative or judicial nature constitute a vast, diverse and valuable pool of resources that can benefit the knowledge economy as well as the consumer.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Open data policies which encourage the wide availability and re-use of public sector information for private or commercial purposes, with minimal or no legal, technical or financial constraints, and which promote the circulation of information not only for economic operators but also for the public, can play an important role in kick-starting the development of new services based on novel ways to combine and make use of such information, stimulate economic growth and promote social engagement. Thus, public administrations should have open access to government public data by default. In this respect, the ISA2 programme is an opportunity to develop interoperability standards for big data management within public administrations and in their dealings with businesses and citizens.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Moreover, without minimum harmonisation at Community level, legislative activities at national level, which have already been initiated in a number of Member States in order to respond to the technological challenges, might result in even more significant differences. The impact of such legislative differences and uncertainties will become more significant with the further development of the information society, which has already greatly increased cross- border exploitation of information. Thus, interoperability, open standards and open data are not only fundamental in a cross- border context but are also needed at the national, regional and local administrative levels in each Member State.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 48 a (new)
Recital 48 a (new)
(48a) The use of open data must ensure that the same data protection and privacy standards apply to a situation when public sector data is used for commercial purposes as when such data remains within the public sector.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Public authorities should disclose the potential costs that arise out of the re- use of public information.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall support the availability of research data by adopting national policies and relevant actions aiming at making publicly funded research data openly available ('open access policies'). Public administrations should have open access to government public data by default. These open access policies shall be addressed to research performing organisations and research funding organisations.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2
2. Research data shall be re-usable for commercial or non-commercial purposes under the conditions set out in Chapters III and IV, insofar as they are publicly funded and whenever access to such data is provided through an institutional or subject-based repository. In this context, data protection has to be ensured and legitimate commercial interests ands well as pre- existing intellectual property rights shall be taken into account. This provision shall be without prejudice to point (c) of Article 1(2).
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12a Fair competition between public authorities and re-users Insofar as public authorities make a commercial use in their own benefit of public sector information outside a public service contract, Member States shall ensure that a fair competition under the same conditions is guaranteed.