PSI PRICING 3 ePSIplus overview PART 1 & Meeting overview Chris Corbin ePSIplus Analyst Athens, Greece, 20.11.08 funded by eContentPlus

PSI PRICING 3ePSIplus overview PART 1

&Meeting overview

Chris CorbinePSIplus Analyst

Athens, Greece, 20.11.08

funded by eContentPlus

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Monitoring of PSI – Re-use within Europe

ePSINetCee (Monitoring EU10)

1 March 2004 to 30 September 2005 (18 months)

ePSIplus (Monitoring EU27)1 September 2006 to 28 February 2009 (30 Months)

ePSINet (Monitoring EU15)1 August 2002 to 31 January 2005 (30 months)

Contract to EC (Monitoring EU27)1 March 2009 to 28 February 2011 (24 Months)

European CommissionAlmost 9 years continuous monitoring

2002 through to 2011

Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) – ICT Policy Support Program – Proposed work programme 2009 includesTheme 6 Public Sector Information (likely funding €9.5 million)Objective 6.1: Legal aspects of Public Sector Information (Thematic Network)Objective 6.2: Geographic Information

The future

Current

The past - completed

+

Athens hosted final conference

January 2005

INVITATION TO TENDER 5.07.08 - "EUROPEAN PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION (PSI) PLATFORM"

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The ePSIplus Thematic Network

The time intervalThat is monitored by ePSIplus

ePSINet + ePSINetCee

EU PSI Directive 2003/98/ECPoliticalReview

2004 2005 2006 2007

1.07.05 Member States

comply

2008 2009PSI directive came

into force31.12.03

We are here!

ePSIplus

MEPSIR

Micus Study

ePSI++?Economic growth due to PSI Re-use?

Commission Decision

2006/291/EC20.04.06

ePSIplusConference

13.06.08

ePSIplus - Thematic meetings - evidence building

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Theme Meeting 1 Meeting 2 Meeting 3

Legal Legal issues Extending the Directive -

Cultural Heritage

Legal redress

Public Sector

Culture

PPP Capacity building - training etc.

Future

Action

Private Sector

Opportunity

Role of Associations

Towards an IAG

(PSI Alliance)

Role of Competition

Authorities

Finance PSI Pricing 1 PSI Pricing 2 PSI Pricing 3

Info. Mgmt. PSI management Asset Registers (Meta data)

Interoperability

Topic for each thematic meeting

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 (Report published)• Meeting 3: 8 May Ljubljana Slovenia (Report published)

– Public Sector Organisation theme• Meeting 1: 11 April 2007, Prague, Czech Republic (Report published) ) Summary

Report• Meeting 2: 8 October 2007, Bratislava, Republic of Slovakia (Report published) ) Published• Meeting 3: Converted to final conference 1 – 3 February 2009? Paris

– Encouraging PSI re-use business theme• Meeting 1: 31 August 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark (Report published)• Meeting 2: 19 October 2007, Brussels, Belgium (Report published)• Meeting 3: 11 November 2008, Berlin, Germany

– Pricing impact theme• Meeting 1: 19 - 20 April 2007, Helsinki, Finland (Report published)• Meeting 2: 1 - 2 November 2007, London, UK (Report published)• Meeting 3: 20 - 21 November 2008, Athens, Greece

– Standards theme• Meeting 1: 5 July 2007, London, UK (Report published)• Meeting 2: 26 November 2007, Riga, Latvia (Report published)• Meeting 3: 12 September 2008, Madrid, Spain

All the materials from the meetings are available on the ePSIplus web sitewww.ePSIplus.net Red - means the meeting has taken place or is taking place

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 (Report published)– Netherlands 27 September 2007 (Report published)– Finland 2 October 2007 (Report published)– Ireland 25 October 2007 (Report published)– UK 30 October 2007 (Report published)– Slovenia 7 November 2007– Germany 6 December 2007 (Report published)– Belgium 11 December 2007 (Report published)– Hungary 13 December 2007 (Report published)– Slovakia 14 December 2007– Czech Republic 23 January 2008– Latvia 25 January 2008 (Report published)– Malta 8 February 2008– Lithuania 21 February 2008 (Report published)– Austria 4 March 2008– Spain 31 March 2008– Bulgaria 17 April 2008– Greece 21 May 2008– Estonia 23 May 2008 (Report published)– Iceland_2 4 September 2008– Portugal 19 September 2008– Denmark 27 November 2008– Sweden 11 December 2008

Conference to test recommendations for change 13 June 2008, Brussels

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

Number of ePSIplus national meetings held

0

5

10

15

20

25

Sep-06Oct-06Nov-06Dec-06Jan-07Feb-07Mar-07Apr-07May-07Jun-07Jul-07Aug-07Sep-07Oct-07Nov-07Dec-07Jan-08Feb-08Mar-08Apr-08May-08Jun-08Jul-08

Aug-08Sep-08

Month

Accumulative total

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Sampling experiences

(gathering evidence)

ConsideringComparingConcluding

1. Draft2. QA3. Publish

The meeting

Setting the scene

Meeting report

115 Presentations

424 experts

ePSIplus - One stop shop to PSIThe evidence base

(web site)

Assigned ePSIplus Analyst


Experts that attended meeting

ePSIplus Meetings: Evidence base

Thematic meetings completed: 13 out of 15

Accumulative Total

National meetings completed: 21 out of 3513 reports published

1146 experts

Accumulative Total


198 Presentations

Combined accumulative total:

- 337 presentations- 1738 experts attended meetings- 25 reports- 35 meetings + Conference + Iceland2

By end of project estimate:

- Presentations 410- Experts 2200- Reports 50

11 Reports published

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

Total number of news items posted: 1178


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


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Reaching the ePSIplus recommendations

The ePSIplus process:

• Build up the evidence base• Analyse the evidence• Draft recommendations• Test against stakeholders (Conference)• Finalise and submit recommendations

ePSIplus - 12 recommendations plus supporting evidence

has been published & submitted to the

European Commission review

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The ePSIplus recommendations

ePSIplus overview&

Meeting overview PART 2

Chris CorbinePSIplus Analyst

Athens, Greece, 20.11.08


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PSI Directive: EU27 transposition time analysis

PSI Directive number of Member States that have submitted transposition notifications to the European Commission

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

1.07.0511.07.0515.12.0510.03.0623.03.06

1.09.0623.10.0619.12.06

1.01.0725.05.0713.09.0711.10.0717.11.0711.12.07

8.05.081.07.08

DenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceIrelandPolandSlovakiaSloveniaSwedenUK

Belgium

Czech RepublicGreeceHungaryItalyLatviaLithuaniaNetherlands

CyprusGermanyMaltaRomania

AustriaBulgariaLuxembourgPortugalSpain

Sweden

Denmark

Poland?

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PSI Directive: Status within the European Union

All 27 Member States have notified transposition

EU27 Member State's chosen method of transposing Directive 2003/98

67%

22%

11%

New Laws Amended Existing Laws Existing laws covered

EFTA Member State's chosen method of transposing Directive 2003/98/EC as at 1 July 2008

25%

25%

0%

50%

New Laws Amended Existing Laws Existing laws covered Not transposed

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PSI Directive: Status within the EFTA Member States

Iceland

NorwaySwitzerland

Liechtenstein

Theme: description

• The effects of the Directive on the PSI value chain, on costs, access and organisation within the public sector, including remedies for budget loss as a result of new charging policies.

• Developments in pricing and charging policies: emerging impact and approaches toward free of charge access, marginal costs charging, ‘reasonable return on investment’ policies etc

• Impact of varying fiscal and public sector cost-recovery approaches across Europe

ePSIplus Theme: Impact on prices and charges

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ePSIplus PSI Pricing meetings

Meeting 1 – Helsinki 19 & 20 April 2007

Meeting 2 – London, 1 & 2 November 2007

Meeting 3 – Athens, 20 & 21 November 2008

The third meeting in the PSI Pricing series has been deliberately scheduled to be one year after the second meeting that was held in London for two reasons:

• To provide time for the impact of the Directive to be felt across all Member

States.• To follow the European Commissions review of the Directive which closed on

15th September 2008. The review included an economic study of three PSI re-use domains: geographic, legal and meteorological.

Unfortunately the Commission has not yet published any materials from the Consultation or the results of the economic survey undertaken on the Commissions behalf by MICUS.

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Athens meeting objectives

To consider:

• Price regulation;

• Determining charges for PSI re-use;

• The impact these charges have on the down stream PSI re-use market;

• Processing of PSI re-use complaints that relate to charges for re-use;

• Setting and monitoring of the financial regimes used by public sector bodies.

• Sustainability of the public sector body where charges are not levied – that is the data and information is available for re-use for no financial charge or for only the cost of sending it to the PSI re-user.

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Athens meeting outline

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IntroductionIntroduction

The evidenceThe evidence

Consider the evidence & agree conclusions Consider the evidence & agree conclusions

All the materials from the meeting will be placed on the ePSIplus web site on the 23 November 2008

Athens meeting outline – evaluating the evidence

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Experts in attendance thathave not made a presentation to lead

Considering the evidence presentedConsidering the evidence presented

Categorising and dissecting the issues presented.Has the Directive had the expected outcome?

Categorising and dissecting the issues presented.Has the Directive had the expected outcome?

Developing the Pricing questionnaireDeveloping the Pricing questionnaire

All the materials from the meeting will be placed on the ePSIplus web site on the 23 November 2008

The ePSIplus Thematic Network agreed to undertake a survey designed to identify changes in pricing and charging practices immediately after the third PSI Pricing meeting.

PSI Directive

The expected outcome on prices and charges

A downward effect on charges and re-use conditions

QuestionHow does one determine whether the change in prices and charges if

detected are as a result of the PSI Directive?

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What might impact prices and charges?

• Fiscal policy (Government financial policy)

• A policy change

• A change of Government (Political)

• Technological advances

• Competition (From other data providers)

• Modernising government

• Structure of public sector (constantly changing)

• EU PSI Directive

• Regulation (Competition, Monopoly…)

• Temporal

• Public sector culture, behaviour

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The PSI Directive Article 13

Review

1 The Commission shall carry out a review of the application of the Directive before 1 July 2008 and shall communicate the results of this review, together with any proposals for modifications of the Directive, to the European Parliament and the Council.

2 The review shall in particular address the scope of this Directive, including the extent of the increase of public sector documents, the effects of the principles applied to charging and the re-use of official texts of a legislative and administrative nature, as well as further possibilities of improving the proper functioning of the internal market and the development of the European content industry.


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PSI Directive Article 6

Principles governing charges

Where charges are made, the total income from supplying and allowing re-use of documents shall not exceed the cost of collection, production, reproduction and dissemination, together with a reasonable return on investment.

Charges should be cost-oriented over the appropriate accounting period and calculated in line with the accounting principles applicable to the sector bodies involved.

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PSI Directive Recital 14

Where charges are made, the usual income should not exceed the total costs of collecting, producing, reproducing and disseminating documents, together with a reasonable return on investment, having due regard to the self-financing requirements of the public sector body concerned, where applicable.

Production includes creation and collation, and dissemination may also include user support.

Recovery of costs, together with a reasonable return on investment, consistent with applicable accounting principles and the relevant cost calculation method of the public sector body concerned, constitutes an upper limit to the charges, as any excessive prices should be precluded.

The upper limit for charges set in this Directive is without prejudice to the right of Member States or public sector bodies to apply lower charges or no charges at all, and Member States should encourage public sector bodies to make documents available at charges that do not exceed the marginal costs for reproducing and disseminating the documents.


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Data can be made available:

• No charge - Free (no financial transaction involved).

• A marginal cost charge.

• A charge - where the charge for data can be based upon:

– Collecting

– Producing (creation and collation)

– Reproducing

– Dissemination (user support)

– ROI (Return on Investment)



Principles governing charges

Issues to be considered:

• How would a potential PSI re-user know that these conditions have been met?

• What is, and how would one detect the accounting period that has been adopted in the pricing regime?

• How would one access the efficiency of the organisation?

• If there is no competition how will one determine whether the price is value for money?

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Transparency

Any applicable conditions and standard charges for the re-use of documents held by public sector bodies shall be pre-established and published, through electronic means where possible and appropriate.

On request, the public sector body shall indicate the calculation basis for the published charge.

The public sector body in question shall also indicate which factors will be taken

into account in the calculation of charges for atypical cases. (not conforming to the

usual type or expected pattern)

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If the PSI price appears high to a potential re-user - what might the reason be?

• Efficiency? (or lack of!)

• No cost-price base? (unit cost accounting not in use)

• Abuse of position?

• Lack of understanding? (Ignorance!)

• A method of regulating demand? (price is used to deter re-use)

• Lack of skills within organisation?

• Over specified?

The above needs to be considered in the context that many public sector bodies are defacto monopolies.



Non-discrimination

1. Any applicable conditions for the re-use of documents shall be non-discriminatory for comparable categories of re-use.

2. If documents are re-used by a public sector body as input for its commercial activities which fall outside the scope of its public tasks, the same charges and other conditions shall apply to the supply of the documents for those activities as apply to other users

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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?

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Policy(Financial)

PSIRe-user

Public SectorInformation

Holder

Effective policy: Open loop or closed loop?

FeedbackProcess

Regulator?

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Thank you for your attention, & your participation


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PSI PRICING 3 ePSIplus overview PART 1 & Meeting overview Chris Corbin ePSIplus Analyst Athens, Greece, 20.11.08 funded by eContentPlus