Current legal framework...
The Luxembourg Government's Open Data strategy addresses the
following situation: "The public sector gathers and stores
large quantities of data that could be of interest to individuals
and businesses, but the data is not often accessible to the public.
Yet unimpeded access to such data constitutes one of the
fundamental principles of democracy, and is a vital element in a
policy of transparency and openness.1
Open Data essentially consists of freely accessible documents
and/or statistical data produced by public sector bodies of the
Member States.2
In Luxembourg, the amended Law of 4 December 2007 on the re-use of
public-sector information (the "2007
Law") currently regulates Open Data. The 2007 Law
transposed into Luxembourg Law Directive 2003/98/EC of 17 November 2003
on the re-use of public sector information (the "Open
Data Directive"), amended by Directive 2013/37/EU of
26 June 2013.
