Regulations

The current regulations on the Re-use of Public Sector Information are based upon Law 37/2007 about the Re-use of Public Sector Information, which implements the EC Directive to the national law and enshrines the basic principles regarding the Re-use of documents issued or kept by Public Sector Bodies or Administrations.

• Community level

• Commission Communication on the Re-use of Public Sector Information, review of Directive 2003/98/EC*.
• Working document on the Commission services about the Commission Communication on the Re-use of Public Sector Information*.
• Directive 2003/98/EC..
• Directive 2003/98/EC English.
• Green Paper on Public Sector Information in the Information Society.

* European Commission non-legislative Working Documents

• National level

• Organic Law 15/1999, of 13 December, on Personal Data Protection.
• Law 37/2007, of 16 November, on the Re-use of Public Sector Information.
• Law 11/2007, on Citizens' Electronic Access to Public Services.
• Law 56/2007, of 28 December, on Measures to Foster the Information Society (Additional Provision 16a).
• Law 27/2006, of 18 July, regulating the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice on environmental matters (it includes Directives 2003/4/EC and 2003/35/EC).
• Law 30/1992, of 26 November, on the Legal System of Public Administrations and Common Administrative Procedure.
• Ley 8/1989, of 13 April, on Public Rates and Prices.
• Royal Decree 1720/2007, of 21 December, whereby the Regulation on personal data protection of 13 December is adopted.
• Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of 12 April, whereby the Rewritten Text of the Intellectual Property Law is adopted.

NOTE: The consolidated texts are embodied into a single text: the essential instruments of the regulation and its subsequent modifications and amendments. However, it lacks legal value since they are not official releases.