Legal aspects of public sector information

Id:KUL_3H100285

K.U.Leuven

LAPSI (Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information) is a thematic network funded by DG Information Society of the European Commission. It bringstogether experts from all over the European Union and will make policy recommendations for overcoming the legal barriers to the re-use of PSI.Information generated and collected by public sector entities represents a veritable minefield; it might make a much greater contribution to EU economies and societies, if current legal barriers to access and re-user were removed. The LAPSI project will deal both with established PSI areas (geographic, land register data, etc.) as well as novel areas (cultural data from archives, libraries, scientific information, etc.) and environmentalfigures and data sets. Legal barriers to access and re-use and strategies to overcome them shall be considered from the perspectives of information, IP, privacy and competition law; in addition it will deal with administrative, environmental law and public procurement rules

Timeframe:

1 Mar 2010 → 30 Sep 2012

Keywords:

Public sector information

Discipline codes:

• SOCIAL SCIENCES (S)
  • Juridical sciences
    • Administrative law
    • Informatics law