Ihr Wissensdienstleister im Markt für Rechts- und Wirtschaftsinformationen © 2009 Online Consultants International GmbH, Karlsruhe.Slide 1 ePSIplus Final

Ihr Wissensdienstleister im Markt für Rechts- und Wirtschaftsinformationen

© 2009 Online Consultants International GmbH, Karlsruhe. Slide 1

ePSIplus Final Thematic Meeting

La Documentation Française - 3rd February 2009 - Paris

Introduced by

Michael FanningOnline Consultants International GmbH

Karlsruhe

PSI in Europe – The Road(s) Ahead!

Key sector – action plan 3:

Legal, business and other information sectors



Publisher/Legal information provider

Legal information provider

Law firm

Information provider

Publisher/Business information

Media companies

Service providers

Legal and administrative information – Actors and performance

PSI Re-users (legal) are various:

Actors: Performance:

Income from PSI re-users (legal) varies: Publisher/Legal information

provider


Some respondents reported growth in

revenues attributable to PSI re-use

(legal) in hundreds of percent.

Service providers

Revenues in supplementary business

have doubled since 2002.

Source: EU PSI Re-use 2008 Study, MICUS, page 82

Reference:

Since 2002, estimates for the growth of the LTR market in Europe have usually lain in a range of between 0 to 15 %.



Legal and administrative information – Paradox and diversion 79% of the PSI holders (legal) interviewed offer

legislative and administrative information free of charge via the internet.

84% of the PSI re-users (legal) draw upon web portals for legal or administrative information on a weekly or less basis.

Yet only 38% of PSI re-users were satisfied with the web portals.„The message from the survey here is that all stakeholders involved in the re-use of

legal and administrative information must take care not to regard the formal

requirement upon a public body to disseminate information as synonymous with an

approval or permission to re-use the information. Just because legal and administrative

information is disseminated to the public domain does not mean in practice that

conditions have been laid down for its re-use.“ (Emphasis added)Source: EU PSI Re-use 2008 Study, MICUS, page 85



Business information – Example: Annual financial statements

France Germany Italy Spain Sweden United Kingdom

Organisation

Service Infogreffe eBundes-anzeiger

InfoCamere Registradores Mercantiles

Bolagsverket Companies House

Nameof the organisation

Infogreffe Télématique

Bundesanzeiger Verlag

InfoCamere – Società

Consortile per Azioni delle Camere di Commercio

Colegio de Registradores

de la propriedad y

Mercantiles de España

Bolagsverket Companies House

Executive Agency

Legal form of the organisation

Public bodyNetwork

coordinator

Private enterprise with public

service mandate

Public bodyNetwork

coordinator

Public bodyNetwork

coordinator

Public bodyAgency

Public bodyAgency

Availability

Option:Complete data set

No (Due to legal

considerations)

YesPDF / XML /

XBRL

YesPDF

No (Due to techn.

reasons)

YesImage / PDF /

XBRL

YesTIFF / PDF

Pricing

Option:Complete data set

Option not available

Prices available

upon request

€3.50 per document and only in

PDF

Option not available

€2.14 per document in XBRL format

€32,366

Source: oci GmbH



Business information – Interoperability initiatives within the EU

See: http://www.briteproject.net/

BRITE stands for

Business Register Interoperability Throughout Europe.

BRITE is an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission, DG Information Society & Media.

BRITE involves a consortium of 22 organisations including European Business Registers and Chambers of Commerce, IT Companies, Universities and SMEs.



Business information – What have been the drivers of change? Harmonisation of Company Law in Europe

Migration away from paper-based to electronic filing

Reduction of the administrative burden on SME’s

Re-use of company information has been an

additional benefit rather than a real driver of change.



Other information – Example: PSI procured by respondents

County councils‘ information

Environmental information

Highway schemes

Local authority information

Planning enforcement information

Road information

Town planning and local land charges

Examples of administrative information that respondents to the

EU PSI Re-use 2008 study have procured included: Trade register information

Official bulletins

Information on tenders

Resolutions of local authorities and town councils

Practice guidelines

Resolutions of Ministries and other executive bodies

Building regulations

Contaminated land regulations




Other information – Example: PSI desired by resondents

PSI Re-user Category

Examples of PSI desired

Publisher / Legal information provider

Courts of AppealCases from regional courtsCase law of first instanceAdministrative courts

Legislation with annexesParliamentary informationMinisterial information


Regional legislationMinisterial information

Decisions of lower instance courts

Law firm Decisions of specialised courts Decisions of lower instance courts

Information provider Parliamentary information EU and national legislation

Publisher / Business information

Commerce RegisterLand Register

Brand Register

Media company Single click access to PSI

Service provider Building regulations / controlHighway schemesHighway works scheduleTraffic schemes

EU law alertsEnvironmental informationEnvironmental register




PSI Re-user Category

Examples of PSI desired

Publisher / Legal information provider

Courts of AppealCases from regional courtsCase law of first instanceAdministrative courts

Legislation with annexesParliamentary informationMinisterial information


Regional legislationMinisterial information

Decisions of lower instance courts

Law firm Decisions of specialised courts Decisions of lower instance courts

Information provider Parliamentary information EU and national legislation

Publisher / Business information

Commerce RegisterLand Register

Brand Register

Media company Single click access to PSI

Service provider Building regulations / controlHighway schemesHighway works scheduleTraffic schemes

EU law alertsEnvironmental informationEnvironmental register

This was the only actual request for a single click

access to PSI.

The other respondents knew or seemed to know what they were looking

for.

Other information – Example: PSI desired by resondents




Complaint of the requesting organisation:

Business information companies and lawyers

use citizen registration data to obtain

information on people who have moved. Up

until July 2008 both business information

companies and lawyers have been able to

obtain the data. Now the data is no longer

being made available to business information

companies but is still available to lawyers.

It is not yet clear why there has been such a

change in data policy. Note, too that the cities

of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen generate yearly

revenues of €220,000 and €170,000

respectively from the sale of citizen

registration data.

See:

http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/13/0,3672,7302733,00.h

tml

Requested information: Problems:

Other information – Example: Citizen Registration Data

1. Requesting organisation

2. Requested information

Citizen registration information

Citizens are obliged to register in their locality

Regulated by the “Melderechtsrahmengesetz”

A general right of access is provided for

3. PSI Holder

Approx. 5.500 individual “Einwohnermeldeämter”

There is no central database of such data

See: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/consultations/replies/stakeholders/verband_vereine_creditreform.pdf



The Roads Ahead – What action to take at the junction?

?

CAUTION:

There is still

as much

potential

for

divergence

as there is

for

convergence!

JUNCTION:

EU PSI Directive

Review Process

2008



The Roads Ahead – Proposals for context and example actions Consolidate, strengthen and expand the emerging PSI

networks

ACTION: IWG-Netzwerk in Germany, MoU with ePSIplus programme, PSI Alliance and other

associations.

ACTION: Appoint network hub as a central resource. A role for the ePSIplus “one-stop-shop”?

Sensitize eGovernment programmes to the PSI re-use agenda.

ACTION: Each network rolls out a PSI checklist to be distributed to eGovernment programme

coordinators.

ACTION: EU (alone or with partner) issues PSI Guidance Notes and/or even PSI Implementation

Handbook.

Position PSI re-use (and use) with innovation and the effective management of information risk

ACTION: Conference to promote a PSI test bed for companies analagous to the MySociety.org in

the UK.

ACTION: Networks issue White Paper on the need to know information assets to assess

information risk.



Thank you for your interest

For further information please contact:

Michael FanningManaging Director

Online Consultants International GmbHUnterreut 6

76135 Karlsruhe

Tel: +49-721-92 12-909Fax: +49-721-92 [email protected]

http://www.oci-gmbh.com



Images

The images and photographs used in the presentation are from the following sources:

Lane direction sign: © istockphoto.com/StanRohrer.

Looking up: © istockphoto.com/joshblake.

Logos

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Acknowlegements:

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