On July 2021 ASEDIE (Spanish Infomediary Companies Association) filed a contentious-administrative appeal against the Royal Decree 327/2021, which restricted the conservation, storage and treatment of the information published in the BOE (Spanish official state gazette) supplements impeding re-use of this information.
The PSI and Open Data review directive which has been adopted last year is opening the possibilities to access and reuse data held by public sector, which is a great improvement in data access. Article 13 of the Directive mandates the EU to put in place High Value Datasets which should be available as open data and free of charge in the Internal Market, and one of categories identified as High Value Dataset is company and company ownership information. The European Commission is currently...