Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] [EXTERNAL] Re: Non-CRA: Open Data in th

[Federico Leva <federico.leva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felix Reda kirjoitti 1.12.2025 klo 15.14:
> Under the new proposal, as I read it, a very large enterprise could pay a public sector body to generate new data, and to access that data under different (including more favourable) conditions than the general public.

Right. As Dirk said, this is far from rare.

In fact it's very common for public sector entities to dodge information 
requests by claiming that the information cannot be provided as is and 
requires some work (say, to convert between formats or to redact some 
personal information). So it would be extremely easy to provide data to 
some businesses for a fee, claiming it was compensation for some work 
done to produce the data, and then deny the data to everyone else by 
saying that they cannot be given the same data as is. That becomes even 
easier if the data is provided to businesses in some proprietary data 
format which makes it less useful or even unusable for others.

Of course if you're an Italian public sector entity you can just close 
your ears and ignore access requests from any disfavoured entity. :-) 
That probably doesn't change whatever the letter of the law.

Going back to the question of the ORC scope, I wonder how many companies 
we have represented on this mailing list which make use of high-value 
datasets.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/open-data-and-high-value-datasets-step-step-access-guide

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2023.019.01.0043.01.ENG#anx_1

That annex is very long so for convenience I'll mention the main (very 
broad) categories here:
1) Geospatial
2) Earth observation and environment
3) Meteorological
4) Statistics [many subcategories here]
5) Companies and company ownership [caveats apply here]
6) Mobility

Best,
	Federico