European Parliament
Queiró (UEN ),
in writing
(PT)
The current situation of publicly accessible re-use of public-sector information varies enormously from Member State to Member State, both in terms of conditions and also of the costs of this re-use. This field needs to be simplified: everything related to basic information – concerning the democratic rule of law – should be made available free of charge, and other information should be made available at a marginal cost, except in what is known as the ‘cultural’ sector, for obvious reasons of intellectual and artistic copyright.
This is not a simple issue and divides the supporters of a certain degree of freedom of decision-making in this field by the Member States and their public services from those who advocate a single harmonised market being imposed on these States for the dissemination and re-use of their information.
I have abstained because I am sensitive to these problems, to which I would add the current state of discussions on this matter in my own country.

