[open-government] hungarian woes

Mon Apr 9 13:12:02 UTC 2012

Hi Stef, all,

How does this new proposed law relate to the way Hungary already has
implemented the existing EU PSI Directive?

The way the PSI Directive is currently implemented according the European
Commission is:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/rules/ms/index_en.htm#hungary

It does indeed seem a bit late to want to adopt a law that follows the 2003
PSI Directive very closely, given that the 2003 PSI Directive already has
been transposed into Hungarian law (see link above) and the new PSI
Directive amendments currently under discussion.

best,

Ton
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On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:56 PM, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:

> hey,
>
> a new law-proposal is causing some stirrup in hungary:
> > A draft bill on the re-use of public sector information submitted to the
> > Hungarian Parliament by the government of the country makes national FOI
> > legislation highly unpredictable - according to HCLU and K-Monitor, major
> > Hungarian NGOs working for transparency and freedom of information. The
> bill
> > intends to harmonize Hungarian PSI legislation on grounds of the
> 2003/98/EC
> > Directive on the re-use of public sector information, a directive soon
> to be
> > revised due to a proposal of the European Commission. HCLU and K-Monitor
> ask
> > legislative authorities to withdraw their draft proposal due to the
> > following reasons.
> http://kmonitor.hu/hirek/magyar-hirek/profit-making-through-foi
>
> also from the official journal, apparently the government wants to join
> this:
> http://www.opengovpartnership.org/
> does anyone have more info about this, is at least this reasonable?
>
> thanks,s
>
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