Willow House

                               33 Thornhill Road

                               Cardiff, CF14 6PE
Jim Wretham
Office of Public Sector Information
Admiralty Arch
London

                                   23rd April 2007

Dear Jim,

Re: 2005 European Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information
Regulations:

As an organisation with an integral interest in the pursuance of the
primary objectives of the 2005 European Directive on the Re-Use of Public
Sector Information in the UK, you may also be interested in a very recent
piece of research that I have undertaken in the form of an exhaustive
survey of the progress & current compliance position of ALL 426 County &
District Council Local Authorities in England & Wales.

If the objectives of the European Directive are to be fully realised, then
the citizen centric policies of local governance, will be one of the key
areas where the benefits of open information exchanges between public &
private sectors will be determined and realised.

It is most disconcerting however, that the replies to my research conducted
in the form of an open letter to all 426 Local Authority Chief Executive
Officers in England & Wales indicates that the meaningful acceptance of the
concept of active re-use and compliance with the stated aims of the
European Directive appears to be virtually non-existent with very few Local
Authorities having taken the initiative to prepare, produce or make
available Information Asset Registers & positive management strategies to
enhance the release and re-use of public sector information.

Clearly, with the European Directive on the Re-Use of Public Sector
Information, due to be re-visited in 2008, there remains an urgent need for
responsive action on the part of the Local Authority sector within England
& Wales.
A failure to ensure engagement with same, will result in a negation of the
principles of Open Government and will irrevocably affect the ability of
the UK to meaningfully interface with the objectives of the
information/knowledge economy as outlined in the Lisbon Agenda.

Yours sincerely


John Gray
PSI consulting (UK) Ltd