EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, CONTENT AND
TECHNOLOGY
Data
Data Policy and Innovation
Luxembourg, 6 July 2020
CNECT.G.1/EB
Committee on open data and the re-use of public
sector information
2nd meeting on 25 June 2020
by videoconference
SUMMARY RECORD
Commission européenne, 2920 Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG - Tel. +352 43011
Office: EUFO 01/264 - Tel. direct line +352 4301-38447
[email protected]
1.
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Due to the COVID-19 situation, the second meeting of the Committee was organised via
videoconference.
The Chair opened the meeting on behalf of the Commission, welcomed all the
participants and introduced the agenda by referring to the importance of data and the
weaknesses in data flows revealed by the crisis. In the context of the Recovery Plan for
the EU presented in May 2020, the Commission presented the latest developments of EU
data policy initiatives, including the implementing act on a list of high-value datasets
(HVDs).
Investments will also be essential. The Digital Europe Programme and Connecting
Europe Facility Programme will be critical in supporting the process of making these
datasets available for re-use, especially via APIs and in machine-readable formats.
The cooperation between the contractor of the study supporting the Impact Assessment
and the Member States is very important, for a solid preparation of the initiative.
2.
HIGH-VALUE DATASETS - DISCUSSION
The main objective of the meeting was to inform the Committee on the status of the
Impact Assessment study, and to discuss the preliminary analysis made by the
contractors.
For each of the categories, the contractors defined the types of datasets considered in the
scope, made a legal screening and mapping of all relevant legislation. Finally, they
presented draft recommended measures along different dimensions (openness,
documentation, competences). For some categories, they also presented the expected
costs and benefits, and possible options to reduce costs of transition.
They made such presentations for all the categories of high-value datasets:
Companies and company ownership
Geospatial
Meteorological
Earth observation and environment
Statistics
Mobility
Each presentation was followed by a series of questions from participants, to which both
the European Commission and the contractors answered. The European Commission
indicated that complementary answers would be sent to the Committee members,
together with the slide presentation.
A delegation shared a non-paper before the meeting. The paper, distributed to the
members for discussion, underlines the importance of technical specifications for each
datasets, as part of the HVDs list.
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3.
CONCLUSION
The Chair thanked the participants for their contributions to the discussion and
committed to share the presentations and additional information with Member States, in
order to facilitate forthcoming work on defining the list of HVDs.
The next meeting will be organised in autumn 2020.
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Annex A
List of participants
COUNTRY
Austria
Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs
Belgium
Prime Minister Chancellery
Bulgaria
State eGovernment Agency
Croatia
Central State Office for Development of Digital Society
Cyprus
Ministry of Finance
Czech Republic
Ministry of the Interior
Denmark
Danish Agency for Digitisation
Estonia
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Finland
Ministry of Finance
Interministerial direction for digital affairs and state information
France
and communication system
Germany
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Greece
Ministry of Digital Governance
Hungary
Ministry of National Development
Ireland
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Italy
Digital Transformation Team
Latvia
Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development
Lithuania
Ministry of the Economy and Innovation
Luxembourg
Ministry of State
Malta
Malta Information Technology Agency
Netherlands
Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Norway
Agency for Public Management and eGovernment
Poland
Ministry of Digital Affairs
Portugal
Administrative Modernization Agency
Romania
Ministry of Communications and Information Society
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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for
Slovakia
Investments and Informatisation
Slovenia
Ministry of Public Administration
Spain
Ministry of Economy
Sweden
Ministry of Finance
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