In the past years, most new EU-member states as Slovak Republic introduced a legislation on the freedom of information (FOI) targeting the citizen. Whenever you asked the politicians, if these provisions include a free and unlimited commercial reuse of those public resources by the publishing- and multimedia industry, there was no reply.

The new EU-Directive on PSI tries to support the small content-publishers, to create easyily and quickly new products and therefore create new jobs. The missing dialogue on that subject proves that most public institutions do not understand yet why private publishers see still a need to establish added-value products (A) or to refine public (raw) data. The presentation will therefore show the public sector how they could benefit from that EC-legislation, e.g, in the field of knowledge management. It is a simple example how government can save costs not be deploying new technologies, but by establishing a coherent policy and defining a division of labour between public and private sector.