The campaign will last up to the end of February and will take the form of a petition that will finally be sent to the Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, Mrs Neelie Kroes.

The aim of the campaign is to include such a single license of reuse for all public information in the European Union in the new Directive, in order to clearly establish the conditions for reuse under the principle of reuse without conditions. The license would be required to be published in all public websites. The campaign tries to extend to the EU the case of the new Spanish regulation on Reuse of Public Sector Information for the State's public sector, the Royal Decree 1495/2011, which includes a standard legal notice that will be present in all national public web sites before the end of 2012.
 
The Spanish Open Data License encompasses the right to reuse public sector information without further conditions for all citizens, including -where present- the non-exclusive license of intellectual property rights.

Support to the petition can be offered at http://www.change.org/es/ (English and Spanish version).

Further Information:

• Original news article - actuable website
• Royal Decree 1495/2011