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2. Re-use Practice:
* a procedure/institution for challenging the refusal of the data issue will be provided (+15
points);
* an obligation to proactively publish data sets will be envisaged in legal acts (sectoral);
* national data set catalogue will be created (+20 points);
3. Formats:
* legal acts will support/require the publication of data in open formats (sectoral);
* national data catalogue will be available in a machine-readable form (+30 points);
4. Fees – data fee matter is under development and it is expected that it will be made pursuant to
the conditions of European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public
sector information (PSI Directive).
5. Exclusive arrangements – maximum achievable rate for Latvia is 50%, which is its current
rate. Latvia does not need to take corrective actions, which could provide extra points;
6. Local (municipal) data re-use – municipalities, which are publishing at least 10 sets of data
(two municipalities – +40 points, four municipalities – +40 points, six municipalities – +20
points), are evaluated. Currently, the guidelines do not directly support publication of local
government data sets, but the issue can be addressed in the context of broader local e-government
infrastructure projects if the such will be implemented by municipalities;
7. Events and activities – it is expected to organise at least 4 national/ regional scale events,
which would promote open data/information re-use measures (+30 points).
Required Actions
To support and encourage the transfer of public data for re-use, it is envisaged to support:
* development of technical solutions for data preparation and publication in a publicly accessible,
transparent, harmonised and automatically processable form, in the same time ensuring data
protection of natural persons;
* the development of required shared ICT infrastructure for the delivering data stored in state
register for the re-use;
* the development of a single, centralised data catalogue – data structures and interfaces has to be
described by the same form and should be available in the centralised catalogue;
* the development of centralised data distribution solution, anticipating also a possibility of a
decentralised solution if it results from considerations of usefulness;
* support the actions necessary to ensure the functionality of the data sources for delivering the
data contained in these sources for re-use and for changing into form valid for re-use, including
support of anonymisation measures;
* the necessary policy development and regulatory framework implementation are provided for
parallel solutions:
- takeover of European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public
sector information (PSI Directive), including implementation of fee and licensing regulatory
conditions, for example, as requirements for licensing are set in the field of geospatial
information;
information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines
2014-2020