Lower fees for re-use of public sector information – the PSI Directive and cases from the Swedish Competition Authority, September 2012

To enable a broader and more effective market for re-use of information collected by public sector bodies the EU decided in 2003 to introduce a common set of minimum rules regulating these questions. The rules contain amongst other things a limitation of how high the fee charged for public sector information may be calculated. The Swedish Competition Authority has investigated two competition cases during the last six months concerning such information regulated in the PSI Directive. We comment on the rules of re-use of public sector information and the decisions and cases on the matter.