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7. Measuring the Economic Impact of the PSI Directive in the Context of the 2008Review
Pages 29-30

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... The audience includes more than 50 million public servants in Europe, employed at several million public sector bodies, plus an unknown number of potential private sector reusers; these numbers are constantly changing as the public and private sectors are reconfigured. The project's strategy is to gather evidence and monitor the value chain, beginning with the PSI directive and then observing how that transfers into government policy within a country, how this policy is actually interpreted by the PSI holder, and then how the policy is interpreted by the reuser, either commercial or noncommercial.
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... Part of the problem is that there are few among the EU member states who actually see PSI as an economic factor, even though a chief focus of the Lisbon Treaty is to develop the knowledge economy. Unfortunately, policy makers often do not think outside of their own country, and they do not see why they should be thinking beyond it.
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