EPSIplus Thematic Network: Towards the 2008 review Chris Corbin ePSIplus Analyst Oxford, UK, 12 th...

ePSIplus Thematic Network:Towards the 2008 review

Chris CorbinePSIplus Analyst

Oxford, UK, 12th November 2007

UK Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information Annual seminar:

Taking Public Sector Information SeriouslyTaking Public Sector Information Seriously

funded by eContentPlus

ePSIplus - Presentation structure

1. Brief overview of the ePSIplus Thematic Network

2. How ePSIplus supports the EC review of Directive 2003/98

3. Europe - PSI Directive implementation status report (12 November 2007)

4. The way forward

5. Summary & conclusions

www.ePSIplus.net

1: ePSIplus - Purpose

The ePSIplus Thematic Network:– Supports the implementation of the European Directive on PSI re-use.– Facilitates the major opportunities for business to develop value added

products and services based on PSI.– The network will be active for 30 months*.– Cover all Member (EU, EEA, EFTA) and candidate states.– Covers all PSI domains.– Will focus on five major themes.

* Commenced on the 1st September 2006 and will be operational through to 28 th February 2009. (which covers the period leading up to the PSI Directive review in 2008 by the European Parliament.)

Has now been operational for 14 months and during that time has established network links with Australia, Canada, Southeast Asia and the OECD. That is the topic is a global one not just European or national.

www.ePSIplus.net

Analysis of the ePSIplus Network National Representative

Public Sector28%

Private Sector24%

Representative Bodies38%

Academic & Research10%

The unpaid networkChampions.

1: ePSIplus - Major themes

1. Legal and regulatory progress and impact (including implementation of the Directive)

2. Public sector organisation and culture change (including compliance with the Directive)

3. Encouraging PSI re-use business

4. The financial impact of the Directive: pricing and charging (including impact on public sector costs and budget)

5. Information management, standards and data quality

www.ePSIplus.net

1: ePSIplus - Meetings - Thematic priorities

1 Network 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• Meeting 3: Slovenia

– Public Sector Organisation theme• Meeting 1: 11 April 2007, Prague, Czech Republic (Report published)• Meeting 2: 8 October 2007, Bratislava, Republic of Slovakia• Meeting 3: ?

– Encouraging PSI re-use business theme• Meeting 1: 31 August 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark• Meeting 2: 19 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium• Meeting 3: ?

– Pricing impact theme• Meeting 1: 19 - 20 April 2007, Helsinki, Finland (Report published)• Meeting 2: 1 - 2 November 2007, London, UK• Meeting 3: April 2008, To be arranged

– Standards theme• Meeting 1: 5 July 2007, London, UK (Report published)• Meeting 2: 26 - 27 November 2007, Riga, Latvia• Meeting 3: Italy

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

ePSIplus Thematic Meeting

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60

T1-1 T1-2 T2-1 T2-2 T3-1 T3-2 T4-1 T4-2 T5-1

Theme

Number of stakeholders

1: 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

– Netherlands 27 September 2007

– Finland 2 October 2007

– Ireland 25 October 2007

– UK 30 October 2007

– Slovenia 7 November 2007

– Hungary 21 November 2007

– Germany 6 December 2007

– Belgium 11 December 2007

– Czech Republic 23 January 2008

– Latvia 25 January 2008

– Malta 8 February 2008

– Austria 20 February 2008

Final Conference (May 2008, Brussels)

All the materials from the meetings are available on the ePSIplus web site

www.ePSIplus.netRed - means the meeting has taken place or is taking place

Accumulative attendance: 386

Attendance at ePSIplus National meetings: Total =

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120

Cyprus France Iceland Netherlands Finland Ireland UK SloveniaCountry

Number of delegates

www.ePSIplus.net

Sampling experiences

(gathering evidence)

ConsideringComparingConcluding

1. Draft2. QA3. Publish

The meeting

Setting the scene

Meeting report

85 Presentations

303 experts

ePSIplus - One stop shop to PSIThe evidence base

(web site)

Assigned ePSIplus Analyst


Experts that attended meeting

1. ePSIplus Meetings: The process Thematic meetings completed: 9 out of 15

Accumulative Total

National meetings completed: 8 out of 35

386 experts

Accumulative Total


63 Presentations

Combined accumulative total:

- 148 presentations- 689 experts attended meetings

- By end of project estimate 2600

1: ePSIplus - Publications - Quarterly update

Quarterly Update (Newsletter) available on the ePSIplus web site

www.ePSIplus.net

1: ePSIplus - The One Stop Shop to PSI

Live: 27.09.06

Objective: To become the first port of call for information on PSI re-usewww.ePSIplus.net

Home page

ePSIplus Thematic Network One stop shop to PSI - News items by thematic area of interest

26%

27%

22%

11%

14%

LegalPublic PrivatePricingQuality

ePSIplus Thematic Network One stop shop to PSI - News items per

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Sep-06 Oct-06 Nov-06 Dec-06 Jan-07 Feb-07 Mar-07 Apr-07 May-07 Jun-07 Jul-07 Aug-07 Sep-07 Oct-07 Nov-07

Month

Number of news items

Total number of news items posted: 525

1: ePSIplus - Encouraging PSI re-use business

www.ePSIplus.net

Current categories

• Aeronautics (2)

• Companies & Finances (3)

• Energy (3)

• Land & Property (1)

• Law & Regulation (4)

• Public tenders (2)

• Traffic & Transport (5)

• Weather & Environment (6)

Target 150 products

1: ePSIplus - Summary

Assess and report on the impact of the Re-use PSI Directive.

Demonstrate (through the network) the improved understanding of re-use of PSI across Europe

Report and propose recommendations for the PSI Directive Review.

www.ePSIplus.net

How ePSIplus supports the EC review of Directive 2003/98

Presentation section 2


EU PSI Directive (broad)

PoliticalReview

2004 2005 2006 2007

1.07.05 Member States

comply

2008 2009PSI directive came

into force31.12.03

Started in 1987 may achieve its objectives by 2017: 30 Years!

We are here!

EC Info Soc monitoring via contracts and projects such as ePSIplus

Estimate as to whenall EU27 will haveTransposed the

PSI Directive

ePSIplus

ePSINet + ePSINetCee

MEPSIR

www.ePSIplus.net

2: ePSIplus supports EC

Directive 2006/111/EC

www.ePSIplus.net

2: ePSIplus and the PSI Directive review

EU Elections May 2009

Purpose of Review: Has the Directive 2003/98 had the desired impact?

July2007

Jan2008

April2008

July2008

Oct2008

Jan2009

EC OnlineConsultation

Geographic Information sector study

ePSIplus & EC

Conference

Legal sector study

Meteorological sector study

EC CommissionedSector studies

EC Analysis ofConsultation

EC Communication

EuropeanParliament

EuropeanCommission

EuropeanCouncil

EU Co-decisionprocess

SummerRecess

Annual Review of Lisbon Strategy

Annual Review of Lisbon Strategy

ContractAwarded

Report: Political statement?

ePSIplus thematic network (active)

ePSIplusEP Day

European PSI Association

Europe - PSI Directive implementation status report(As at 12 November 2007)

Presentation section 3


3: The European Union

www.ePSIplus.net

490 Million people

Multi-lingual(23+ Languages)

Multi-cultural

900,000+ public sector organisation’s (Employs50+ million people)

25 million SME’s (Employs75+ million people)

Euro Zone (2007)

www.ePSIplus.net

Status as at 12th November 2007

3: Establishing the PSI framework

Year MS Transposed

2003 15 12

2004 25 10

2007 27 2

Total 27 24

EFTA

2007 4 1

GrandTotal 31 25

Current prediction:January 2008 - 27July 2008 - 28

www.ePSIplus.net


PSI Directive - Transposition notifications Population covered

0

100

200

300

400

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600

1.07.05 11.07.05 15.12.05 10.03.06 23.03.06 1.09.06 23.10.06 19.12.06 1.01.07 25.05.07 13.09.07 11.10.07

Date

Millions

Percentage of EU25 population included by the PSI Directive

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1.07.05 11.07.05 15.12.05 10.03.06 23.03.06 1.09.06 23.10.06 19.12.06 1.01.07 25.05.07 13.09.07 11.10.07

Date

Percentage

PSI Directive number of Member States that have submitted transposition notifications

0

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10

15

20

25

30

1.07.05 11.07.05 15.12.05 10.03.06 23.03.06 1.09.06 23.10.06 19.12.06 1.01.07 25.05.07 13.09.07 11.10.07

Percentage of Member States included by the PSI Directive

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20

30

40

50

60

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100

1.07.05 11.07.05 15.12.05 10.03.06 23.03.06 1.09.06 23.10.06 19.12.06 1.01.07 25.05.07 13.09.07 11.10.07

Percentage

Number Percentage

28 months

www.ePSIplus.net

EU Co-Decision Process

Re-use PSI

5.06.0231.12.0319 Months

Member States

Transposition 18 Months EU27 = 46+ Months

1.07.05

28+ months

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3 Member State Public Sector

compliance

Stage 4Impact on

CurrentPSI re-users

Compliance

Time to Reach Critical Mass

European Parliament, Commission, Council Review July 2008


www.ePSIplus.net

3:PSI Directive Transposition process (Open loop)

Directive2003/98/EC

Sensor: The Re-user (PSI)

Harmonisation achieved through: EU reviews, Complaints,

Court Cases

Member State 27

Member State 3

Member State 2

Member State 1

27+(1*x)….+(1*y)Variants of the

Directive

The diffusion effect

Issues:1. Methods of reducing variance.2. Lack of EU enforcement.

EU MS Federal (x)

Cause

The democratic process lag!The harmonisation process lag!

Local (y)

Public Body 1+z

Public Body 1

www.ePSIplus.net


EU27 Transposition status as at 11 October 2007

52%

22%

15%

11%

New Laws Amended Existing Laws Existing laws covered Not Transposed

www.ePSIplus.net


Directive 2003/98Estimated number of laws introduced, amended or appertaining per country

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

AustriaBelgiumBulgariaCyprus

Czech Republic

DenmarkEstoniaFinlandFrance

GermanyGreece

Hungary IrelandItalyLatvia

LithuaniaLuxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

PolandPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSlovenia

SpainSweden

UK

Country

Number of laws

www.ePSIplus.net

3: ePSIplus - Scorecard

Maximum score for Legal Theme is 20

ePSIplus Scorecard Theme 1as at 15 October 2007

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2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

AustriaBelgiumBulgariaCyprus

Czech Republic

DenmarkEstoniaFinlandFrance

GermanyGreece

HungaryIcelandIrelandItalyLatvia

Liechtenstein

LithuaniaLuxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

NorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSlovenia

SpainSweden

Switzerland

UK

AverageMedianEU25EU27EFTA

Europe

Score

Transposition Implementation Support Awareness Enforcement

www.ePSIplus.net

Article 13 Transposed

for MS?

Law Publically available online?

Article 13 Refers to 2003/98

PSI web site

PSIH Register?

Standard Licence

available?

Published Complaints Procedure?

Published Appeal

Procedure?

PSI Guidelines?

Complaint decisions published

Appeal decisions

published?

Unified Complaints

system?Support

Transposition

Implementation

Pro-active Awareness? Training

Annual Monitoring

Reports published?

PSI Case Studies?

Complaint Decisions

Appeal Decisions

Fair Trade & Competiton Authority Decisions

Court Decisions

Awareness

Enforcement

ePSIplus Scorecard Theme 1

3: ePSIplus scorecard

PoliticalReview

2004 2005 2006 2007

1.07.05 UK

Transposed

2008 2009PSI directive came

into force31.12.03

ePSIplus

www.ePSIplus.net

CUPI Report

3: UK timeline

PoI Report

Govt. RespondsTo

CUPI & PoI25.06.07

HMT Study

Public Sector lag: Between 15 to 20 years

Presentation - section 4

Possible ways forward to meet PSI Vision (Objective)


www.ePSIplus.net

4: PSI Directive - the way forward

Principle 1

Directive 2003/98 is the minimum level of harmonisation. Member States may if they wish go beyond the requirements of the Directive.

There is evidence that a number of Member States have gone beyond the requirements of the Directive and a number are now moving to do so in the area of charging. These tend to be the smaller Member States.

www.ePSIplus.net


Objective 1

To support any recommendations for improving the implementation and enforcement of the framework requires evidence. The ePSIplus Thematic Network is one source of such evidence but there are other sources. Once collated the evidence needs to be categorised as to whether the evidence is only from one Member State or is similar across a number of Member States. Where the evidence indicates a problem exists is there evidence that demonstrates that this is not the case else where? Are there examples of good practice - within Europe and globally? Is the good practice portable?

Objective 2

If the evidence shows that some form of action is needed to improve the implementation and enforcement of the framework, then any recommendation for action needs to:• Improve the implementation and enforcement of the framework in the

shortest time frame possible.• Be at the appropriate level. E.g. European Union, Member State or

below.

www.ePSIplus.net


Consideration 1

Deciding whether to amend a Directive the following maybe taken into account, which would include amongst others:

1. The cost benefit analysis. The cost of taking an amended Directive through the co-decision process now that there are 27 EU Member States is high.

2. European elections will occur in 2009, in the final months there is pressure for European Parliamentary time. Is the amended Directive likely to gain a slot and would it move to a safe position prior to the election process starting?

• Is there is a risk that certain Member States would lobby hard and either kill the Directive or considerably reduce the base level of the framework outlined in the Directive? For example the INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC that was finally agreed in November 2006 following reconciliation. The other example is Directive 2003/4/EC - the revision of the Freedom of Access to Environmental Information that was revised came out of the co-decision process weaker than when it went in to the co-decision process.

• Have all Member States transposed and implemented the Directive effectively? For example Germany and a number of other countries have poorly implemented the Directive.

• Have Member States nominated a public sector body to lead and take responsibility for implementing the Directive effectively? The UK OPSI is unique in the EU at the current time.

• Are the regulators enforcing the current Directive framework?

www.ePSIplus.net


Consideration 2

If the evidence indicates that the issue appertains to the majority of Member State’s and it definitely impedes the development of cross border business built on PSI re-use, is it due to:

• the Directive itself? or• the practical issue of implementation?

For example PSI Asset registers are missing all across Europe should the Directive be changed to make the implementation mandatory?

The answer is probably NO as other initiatives may resolve or assist, for example:

• eGovernment (seamless government);• INSPIRE;• work being undertaken by public and private bodies to address the issue which

may lead to a solution.

www.ePSIplus.net

4: PSI Directive - early indicators for consideration

Implementation:

- Very poor across Europe as a whole - little political or public sector commitment

- Member States resource allocation is low

- Regulation across Europe as a whole is almost non existent

- Where regulation exists decisions are not always enforced

- The spirit of the PSI Directive is not evident - approach often one of denial or resistance - partly a cultural issue but also due to competition between public and private bodies with public using dominant position.

- In some Member States public sector raising legal challenges over Authority of regulator

- Member State competition authorities have been so far slow to react and take action

- Member State Data Protection (Privacy) Information Commissioners decisions not harmonised.

- Task of compliance left to the Re-user of PSI!

- The value chain is complex and is not simply public sector upstream everyone else down stream.

www.ePSIplus.net

3: ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

StandardAnnualReport

(Financial)

All Public SectorAnnual Report

Public Body xAnnual Report

Public Body 3Annual Report



1+xVariants of the

StandardAnnual 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 byMinistry 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 AccountsCommercial in confidence?

www.ePSIplus.net

3: ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

Policy(Financial)

PSIRe-user

Public SectorInformation

Holder

Effective policy: Open loop or closed loop?

FeedbackProcess

Regulator?

Presentation - section 5

Summary


5: The Directive

www.ePSIplus.net

Public SectorPSIH’s

PSI

Framework

PSI Re-users

PSI Re-users

CONFIDENCEFRAMEWORK

FOR THERE-USER

COST EFFECTIVEFOR THE

PUBLIC SECTOR

Boosts the knowledge economy

www.ePSIplus.net

PSI Framework Public Sector

PSIH

PSI Re-user

Central PSI portal Can be referred to minimal resources

Speed

Understanding

Standard Licence No negotiating Consistency

Speed

Online click use standard licence Minimal human intervention Speed

No charge No transaction costs Simple

Marginal cost- pre-published Minimal transaction

Costs

Quick

Simple

Charges pre-published No negotiating

Consistency

Understanding

Easy to assess

Asset Lists Consistent with good data management

Easy to locate

Exclusive arrangements declared and/or phased out. (by December 2008)

No negotiating Easy to understand

Separate accounts between Public Task and Trading task

Improved business management

Easy to understand

IPR Management (preferably waive IPR) Cost effective data management

Simple

One public sector data regime Simple Simple

Manage requests just as in FOI Regime Minimal human intervention Fast and simple

5: PSI Directive - the WIN WIN framework

The key to success is to KEEP IT SIMPLE!

Keep in mind the demographic change in society: simplification is one of the options

5: Summary

www.ePSIplus.net

The PSI Directive framework was established to:

- minimise the burden on the public sector of enabling the re-use of public sector information to occur without resources being diverted from the public task. (apart from the establishment resource costs)

- provides confidence to the potential re-user in that it provides a balance between the public sector defacto monopoly and the micro and small enterprises.

- is simple and easy so that it encourages micro and small enterprises to re-use PSI.

- time is of the essence

- allows innovation to occur

The ePSIplus scorecard states it well:

Europe so far has not met the objective, but there are now signs of movement towards the objective

www.ePSIplus.net

5: PSI Directive - summary

Transposition:

- Is taking a long time and harmonisation even longer

- The purpose of the Directive has been misinterpreted in some Member States (considered to be an access law rather than an economic framework)

- Member State lead bodies often do not understand their responsibility (they see their task as a narrow one of transposition and not more)

- There is clear a need for action - at the current time the action appears to be moving towards a form of Good Practice that should be followed by all Member States and to back this up by the European Commission using the powers that they have to encourage Member States to comply. The EU wide action to be combined with action within Member States to address the issues appertaining to their country.

Is the EU PSI Directive in Europe as at 12 November 2007?

• Entrepreneurial positive (it has encouraged innovation and entry into the market)

• Entrepreneurial neutral (it has not stimulated innovation and entry into the market)

• Entrepreneurial negative (it has discouraged innovation and entry into the market)

5: Summary

www.ePSIplus.net

+100

0

-100

On balancecurrently here asat 12.11.07

Interested in PSI? Then why not visit:

www.ePSIplus.net

Thank you for your attention


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