Data Reports

PRIMET has initiated a collection of incident reports and related documents on restrictive and unfair data distribution practices applied by National Meteorological Services belonging to the ECOMET grouping, with the focus on the availability and delivery of basic observational and model data produced by means of governmental funding. More documentation of this kind is solicited from all over Europe in order to get a representative picture of the overall situation.

June 21, 2002 Competition Violations in the Finnish and Swedish Weather Market by Pirkko Saarikivi, Executive Vice President, Foreca Ltd, Helsinki, Finland
June 20, 2002 Ruling by the Norwegian Competition Authority against the Norwegian Meteorological Institute by Inge Johannessen, Storm Weather Center, Bergen, Norway
June 19, 2002 Changes to UK Met Office Charging Policy
May 28, 2002 Report by Pirkko Saarikivi, Foreca Ltd: “ECOMET principles – past and present”
May 22, 2002 Report by Dennis Schulze, MC-Wetter GmbH: “New license rules and recent price changes in Germany”
April 2, 2002 Letter to Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Finnish Minister of Transport and Communications from Jan Dekker, General Manager of Weerbureau HWS, The Netherlands on the experience associated with spinning off of the commercial wing of the National Meteorological Service
March 26, 2002 Report by Dennis Schulze of MC-Wetter GmbH on recent anti-competitive activities involving Deutscher Wetterdienst
March 25, 2002 Report by Jan Dekker, General Manager of Weerbureau HWS : Overall experience of the transition of the KNMI commercial wing into independent company Weerbureau HWS
March 24, 2002 Report by Prof. George Kallos, Univ. of Athens, on anti-competitive practices by the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) and members of its staff
March 15, 2002 Report by P.H. Stoter, General Manager of Meteo Services N.V. : The Belgian public weather sector and the commercial sector, a summary”
March 13, 2002 Report Meteo-Centar of Zagreb, Croatia on questionable business practices by the National Meteorological Service
March 13, 2002 Report by Dennis Schulze of MC-Wetter GmbH on data access problems in Germany and anti-competitive behaviour by Deutscher Wetterdienst
March 12, 2002 Study Report by the Finnish Competition Authority on the competitive conditions as well as the market position and activity of the Finnish Meteorological Institute within the Finnish weather data and weather services market (conclusions and planned action only)
July 12, 2000 ANNEX 2 of the letter to European Commission: Reports and Notes by AEDUE Members and Associates on ECOMET-related difficulties to access essential data.
February 20, 2000 Report by MeteoConsult of the Netherlands on a pricing change of more than 50% for Dutch observational data.
February 3, 2000 Report by Weerbureau HWS of the Netherlands on ECOMET/KNMI pricing practices
February 3, 2000 Report by Kavouras (USA) on unfair competitive practices applied by the German Weather Service in 1996.
December 15, 1999 Letter from MC-Wetter GmbH on two problems in Germany.
November 8, 1999 Report by Noble Denton of the U.K. on excessive pricing of ECOMET data.
September 9, 1999 Decision by the Swiss Competition Commission
September 7,1999 Report on the degradation of radar images applied by the Finnish Meteorological Institute
September 7, 1999 Letter to EC/DG-IV by Weather Service Finland on the Finnish Meteorological Institute degrading the quality of Scandinavian radar composites and restricting delivery of data from automatic observing stations.