Regulating access to Open Data - free access to data held by public bodies

On 25 April 2018, as part of a package of measures aiming to facilitate the creation of a common data space in the EU, the European Commission ("Commission") proposed to review the Open Data Directive 2003/98/EC (as amended). Following an impact assessment carried out by the Commission, a recast of the Open Data Directive was adopted on 20 June 2019 resulting in Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on open data and the re-use of public sector information (“New Open Data Directive”).

The New Open Data Directive repeals the Open Data Directive from 17 July 2021 and focuses notably on increasing business opportunities by encouraging the dissemination of dynamic data via application programming interfaces (APIs).

The Luxembourg Parliament is currently discussing a Bill of Law 7643 with a view to transposing the New Open Data Directive into Luxembourg law, which once adopted will repeal the amended Law of 4 December 2007 on the re-use of public-sector information.

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