06/06/2019 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 6 June, the Council of the EU gave the green light to new rules regarding open data and the re-use of public sector information, marking the end of the adoption procedure. Specifically, this text seeks to access and re-use data held by the public sector. It limits the cost of re-use and introduces the concept of “high-value datasets” which are to be made available free of charge through an application programming interface (API). The new...