• Santander: Test bed for smart cities and open data policies
• How does PSI reuse fare in Spain?

• Metrics for Measuring the Impact of Cultural Datasets
• OK Conference Call for Proposals

• Commission action triggers change Estonia and the Slovak Republic

• UK's Ordnance Survey goes Linked-Data
• UK Land Registry to release free historical property data

• ENGAGE Platform 2.0 (BETA) released
• Open Government Partnership welcomes 11 new countries

In this issue:

• European Parliament committee confirms trialogue positions

• Italy publishes Open Data Self-Evaluation
• New Service helps Czech Citizens Request Public Information

• ePSI Platform's Scoreboard has been updated
• Few days left to contribute to the Open Data Directory
• Spain: Tuderechoasaber call for more information

EUMETNET have responded to PRIMET on the matter of the re-introduction of charges for Spanish Data. 

The Hungarian government is proposing to introduce a new law which it appears will give the Hungarian Met Service absolute exclusivity over almost every aspect of meteorological services business in Hungary. They are also proposing that only data obtained from "validated" observing equipment shall be use to create weather forecasts, (with the Meteorological Service as the only validating body), weather forecasts shall only be produced by persons holding a meteorological degree and that large swaths of forecasting business, including for any public event with more than 1000 persons involved, shall be the monopoly business of the National Met Service.

These proposals breach many European rules on competition, and the Single Market and PRIMET is protesting to the competition authoritites and the Hungarian government.