[open-government] hungarian woes

Mon Apr 9 13:22:03 UTC 2012

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:12:02PM +0200, Ton Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi Stef, all,
> 
> How does this new proposed law relate to the way Hungary already has
> implemented the existing EU PSI Directive?

afaik it was transposed and is in force. the problem is with the enforcement
of it, which is basically non-existent.

> 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

huh, parts of the pre-existing legislation on this page, have been rewritten
lately by the new government. as the legislational frenzy here affected most
laws in the last years, i'm actually unsure if the "new legislative
instruments" are not also affected by this.

> 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.

yep.

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