The Information and Data Protection Commissioner, Mr. Besnik Dervishi, has signed the joint instruction with the Minister of Economy, Culture and Innovation, Mr. Blendi Gonxhja “On the approval of the standard license for the reuse of public sector information”.

This directive is based on Article 11, paragraph 2, and Article 22, paragraph 2, of Law No. 33, dated 31.03.2022, “On open data and the reuse of public sector information,” and aims to approve licenses for the reuse of open data in the Republic of Albania.

The licenses are harmonized with European Union standards and belong to the family of Creative Commons CC licenses. These standard licenses for the reuse of public sector information will provide legal certainty for users, ensuring that information can be freely used by everyone, with the primary condition that the data source is cited as required by the license. The licenses will also be available in electronic format and will accompany the information published by public sector bodies and public enterprises on their official websites and on the open data portal, opendata.gov.al.

Once published in the Official Journaly, this instruction will be implemented by public sector bodies, public enterprises in the Republic of Albania, and the National Agency for Information Society.