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Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 16 December 2024 laying down Rules on the European Parliament’s Open Data

Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 16 December 2024 laying down Rules on the European Parliament’s Open Data

Decision · 7 articles

Data as of 2026-07-04 · Compiled from an official source version. Later amendments or repeals may not be reflected; the official text prevails. · Read the official text ↗

Definition

Article 1

Open data are public data made available in a structured, machine-readable format and published under terms and conditions that allow for easy re-use and redistribution.

Scope and objectives

Article 2

1. Parliament commits itself to making available, as open data, its public data, and establishes the principles, conditions and limitations governing their re-use. 2. Parliament aims to provide as much of its public data as possible in an open data format, and, in doing so, to give priority to datasets of high public interest.

General principles

Article 3

Any of the Parliament’s data which are already public may be published as open data. To be considered ‘open’, the data must have the following four characteristics: (a) ‘technical openness’: data and their metadata are offered in machine-readable, open formats; (b) ‘legal openness’: data are subject to an open licence; (c) ‘practical openness’: data are easily discoverable, up to date and directly accessible; (d) ‘social openness’: with the aim to improve data quality and availability, users’ feedback is collected and considered when making data available.

Conditions for reuse

Article 4

The re-use of Parliament’s open data is subject to the conditions laid down in the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) ( 7 ) . Raw data, metadata or other documents of a comparable nature may alternatively be distributed by Parliament under the Creative Commons Universal Public Domain Dedication deed (CC0 1.0) ( 8 ) .

Open Data Portal

Article 5

1. Parliament hereby sets up and undertakes to maintain a European Parliament Open Data Portal to facilitate the discovery of and access to data available for re-use. 2. Parliament’s public data shall be made available via the European Parliament’s Open Data Portal in any existing language version and in formats that are open and machine-readable and that ensure that data, together with their metadata, are accessible to users, easy for them to find, and re-usable. 3. Both the data and their metadata shall comply with applicable open standards.

Oversight and monitoring

Article 6

Oversight and monitoring of the implementation of these Rules shall be assigned to a specific responsible entity, within the Parliament.

Entry into force

Article 7

This Decision shall enter into force 14 days after its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

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