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# 91996E1678

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1678/96 by Anita POLLACK to the Commission. Eurostat** 
  
*Official Journal C 385 , 19/12/1996 P. 0023*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1678/96 by Anita Pollack (PSE) to the Commission (24 June 1996)

Subject: Eurostat

Are there any restrictions placed by Eurostat on purchases of comtext cd-rom quarterly/library version as regards the use made of the information?

Answer given by Mr de Silguy on behalf of the Commission (5 September 1996)

The publications of the Community institutions are subject to copyright, whether or not that is expressly claimed. This is true both of printed publications and those in other forms. Thus, the use which a purchaser of Eurostat's Comext CD-Rom (quarterly or library version) may make of the material contained therein is governed by copyright law and by provisions of international copyright conventions, according to the licence terms (single-user, single-workstation or local area network) associated with the type of product purchased.

In a limited number of situations reproduction of copyright matter is permitted by law. Reproduction which does not fall into this category requires prior written permission. Copyright permissions and licences are handled on the institutions' behalf by the Office for official publications of the European communities, to which applications for permission must be addressed in writing.

In the context of the information market, the pricing of the statistical publications aims to ensure equitable and non discriminatory access to all, in particular to the companies eager to redisseminate Community data (under the terms of the copyright), support the development of commercial information services based on public sector data which could be maintained by private operators or by national statistical institutes, avoid practices which would constitute an obstacle to the sales activities of national statistical institutes and ensure the respect of copyright, which covers not only the data but also the support, organization and value added.

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