Access to public domain information

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Dear Eurostat (ESTAT),

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

Is there any EU regulation regarding to the accessibility of
public domain information? I mean so called re-use?
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/...

Basically, I need a list of postal codes from country YYY (or all participants of EU).

I was trying to ask some national post departments about this sort of information.

Is there any decree that describes they way of obtaining this sort of data (or other public domain data) from national organizations? For example polish GUS is obligated to share statistics data etc.

I believe that those are sort of public domain goods, so it shall be available for anyone with no cost. What is real state?

Thanks in advance.

PS. I did not contact anyone from EU yet. That is my first question regarding to this issue. This sort of problem (obtaining public domain data like all post codes per country) is very common (usually the unit demands money for that). If this question is sent to wrong EU unit, could you state the correct department so I can ask and get all information I need, please?

Yours faithfully,

Marcin Jurasz

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your e-mail dated 20/12/2012.

We hereby acknowledge receipt of your application for access to documents, which was registered on 20/12/2012 under reference number GestDem 2012/5967 and attributed to EUROSTAT.

In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, your application will be handled within 15 working days.

The time limit will expire on 22/01/2013. In case this time limit needs to be extended, you will be informed in due course.

We also inform you that a lot of information about postal codes around the world is available at : http://www.upu.int/en.html

Yours faithfully,

Carlos Remis
SG.B.5.
Transparence.
Berl. 05/329.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcin Jurasz [mailto:[FOI #298 email]]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:24 AM
To: SG ACCES DOCUMENTS
Subject: access to information request - Access to public domain information

Dear Eurostat (ESTAT),

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as
developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which
contain the following information:

Is there any EU regulation regarding to the accessibility of
public domain information? I mean so called re-use?
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/...

Basically, I need a list of postal codes from country YYY (or all
participants of EU).

I was trying to ask some national post departments about this sort
of information.

Is there any decree that describes they way of obtaining this sort
of data (or other public domain data) from national organizations?
For example polish GUS is obligated to share statistics data etc.

I believe that those are sort of public domain goods, so it shall
be available for anyone with no cost. What is real state?

Thanks in advance.

PS. I did not contact anyone from EU yet. That is my first question
regarding to this issue. This sort of problem (obtaining public
domain data like all post codes per country) is very common
(usually the unit demands money for that). If this question is sent
to wrong EU unit, could you state the correct department so I can
ask and get all information I need, please?

Yours faithfully,

Marcin Jurasz

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Dear Mr Jurasz,

Thank you for your request.

Eurostat has a correspondence table between postal codes and regions, which you can find at the following link: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/...

For a full list of postal codes including the names of the entities, we would advise you to contact the Universal Postal Union (http://www.upu.int/en.html) who hopefully will be able to help you further.

Kind regards,

Louise Corselli-Nordblad
Communication Unit Eurostat

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcin Jurasz [mailto:[FOI #298 email]]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:24 AM
To: SG ACCES DOCUMENTS
Subject: access to information request - Access to public domain information

Dear Eurostat (ESTAT),

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as
developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which
contain the following information:

Is there any EU regulation regarding to the accessibility of
public domain information? I mean so called re-use?
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/...

Basically, I need a list of postal codes from country YYY (or all
participants of EU).

I was trying to ask some national post departments about this sort
of information.

Is there any decree that describes they way of obtaining this sort
of data (or other public domain data) from national organizations?
For example polish GUS is obligated to share statistics data etc.

I believe that those are sort of public domain goods, so it shall
be available for anyone with no cost. What is real state?

Thanks in advance.

PS. I did not contact anyone from EU yet. That is my first question
regarding to this issue. This sort of problem (obtaining public
domain data like all post codes per country) is very common
(usually the unit demands money for that). If this question is sent
to wrong EU unit, could you state the correct department so I can
ask and get all information I need, please?

Yours faithfully,

Marcin Jurasz

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This is a request for access to information under Article 15 of the
TFEU and, where applicable, Regulation 1049/2001 which has been
sent via the AsktheEU.org website.

Please kindly use this email address for all replies to this
request: [FOI #298 email]

If [DG ESTAT request email] is the wrong address for information
requests to Eurostat (ESTAT), please tell the AsktheEU.org team on
email [email address]

This message and all replies from Eurostat (ESTAT) will be
published on the AsktheEU.org website. For more information see our
dedicated page for EU public officials at
http://www.asktheeu.org/en/help/officers



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