Documents

8. Nov 2007 Richard Pettifer's, PRIMET General Secretary, Presentation at the recent EMS Annual Meeting.
28. May 2007 Letter to Daily Telegraph Friday
25. May 2007 From the London Daily Telegraph Friday 25th May 2007.
24. Apr 2007 Richard Pettifer, a new PRIMET Secretary General Letter of Introduction
15 Mar 2006 PRIMET Position Statement on Environmental Data Management delivered to ECOMET
09 Mar 2006 Excerpt from Article in The Guardian (UK) on their campaign for free data
26 Feb 2006 Letter from PRIMET Secretary General to Prof. Anton Eliassen, ECOMET President, re. the "Continuation of dialogue between PRIMET and ECOMET"
24 Feb 2006 Johan Jaques, MeteoServices, Belgium: "Case against the Belgian Meteorological Institute (KMI), progress report"
24 Feb 2006 Minutes of PRIMET Annual General Meeting 2005
09 Feb 2006 Letter from Anton Eliassen to PRIMET Secretary General on PRIMET-ECOMET relations
04 Jan 2006 Letter from Maria Asenius on behalf of EC Commissioner Olli Rehn in response to the message dated 18 Oct 2005 regarding the situation on the meteorological market in Croatia sent by the PRIMET Secretary General
31 Dec 2005 PRIMET letter to Prof. Anton Eliassen re. joint legal scrutiny of ECOMET rules and practices
18 Oct 2005 Message providing a "Brief Overview of the Meteorological Market in Croatia" sent by PRIMET Secretary General to European Union Commissioner Olli Rehn
25 Sep 2005 Letter from Antonio Verga, PRIMET Secretary General, to Anton Eliassen, President of the ECOMET General Assembly, re. the planned joint ECOMET-PRIMET legal scrutiny
23 Sep 2005 Letter from Anton Eliassen, President of the ECOMET General Assembly re. the planned ECOMET-PRIMET legal scrutiny
08 May 2005 National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005 (introduced in US Senate by Rick Santorum)
24 Mar 2005 Updated PRIMET NWP Data Survey released
11 Mar 2005 Message to Daniel Soderman, PRIMET Strategic Advisor, from Lillian Svendsen on behalf of ECOMET President Anton Eliassen re. the proposed joint scrutiny of ECOMET rules and practices
05 Oct 2004 Further message from Daniel Soderman to Prof. Anton Eliassen re. ECOMET- PRIMET meeting on 3 Nov. 2004
05 Oct 2004 Further message from Prof. Anton Eliassen re. ECOMET- PRIMET meeting on 3 Nov. 2004
05 Oct 2004 Response by Daniel Soderman, PRIMET Secretary General to meeting invitation
30 Sep 2004 Invitation by Prof. Anton Eliassen for discussions in Oslo on 3 November 2004 between ECOMET and PRIMET
30 June 2004 PRIMET letter to Prof. Anton Eliassen, President of the ECMWF Council, re. ECMWF data access and utilization.
16 June 2004 Letter from Prof. Anton Eliassen, President of the ECMWF Council, re. the decisions of the Council on 3-4 June 2004 in response to recent PRIMET letters.
18 May 2004 Message from Prof. Anton Eliassen, President of the ECOMET General Assembly.
12 May 2004 PRIMET message on a possible 2nd ECOMET/PRIMET meeting in early autumn 2004 to Prof. Anton Eliassen, President of the General Assembly of ECOMET
12 May 2004 PRIMET letter re. ECMWF data access and associated revenues to Prof. Anton Eliassen, Chairman of the ECMWF Council
23 Apr 2004 Power Point presentation by Daniel Söderman at PSI Group meeting in Luxembourg
23 Apr 2004 Power Point presentation by Harry Otten at PSI Group meeting in Luxembourg
23 Apr 2004 Power Point presentation by Peter Weiss at PSI Group meeting in Luxembourg
23 Apr 2004 Summary Report on the PSI Group meeting in Luxembourg 23.04.2004
19 Apr 2004 Letter from Anne-Margrete Wachtmeister of the European Commission Competition Directorate-General on the entry into force of EC Regulation 1/2003 whereby Comfort Letters are phased out
24 Mar 2004 PRIMET letter on ECMWF archive data - access and pricing sent to Prof. Anton Eliassen, ECMWF Council Chairman.
10 Mar 2004 Letter by Norman Lynagh on Early Private Sector Activities - reference is also made to the corresponding "Meteorological Magazine" article published in 1993.
10 Mar 2004 PRIMET letter on ECMWF data access sent to Prof. Anton Eliassen, ECMWF Council Chairman.
24 Feb 2004 Overview of NWP data used operationally by PRIMET members.
20 Feb 2004 Message from Rudiger Dohms of the EC Competition Directorate re. Comfort Letter on ECOMET
12 Nov 2003 PRIMET comments regarding the charging aspect of the EU Directive on re-use and commercial exploitation of public sector documents and the EU Directive on access to environmental information
3 September 2003 Comments by AEDUE Secretary General on the Report by Statskonsult on the Norwegian Met Institute
August 2003 Recommedations contained in a Report by Statskonsult on the Organisation of the Norwegian Met Institute
2 July 2003 AEDUE Position Statement on ECOMET data access
17 June 2003 Letter by AEDUE Secretary General to the Prime Minister of Croatia
29 May 2003 Decision of The Republic Of Croatia State Inspectorate Office to refuse the complaint logged by a company "METEO CENTAR", d.o.o., Zagreb relating to the prohibition to carry out the activity of meteorological consulting and weather forecast in Croatia
19 April 2003 Decision of The Republic Of Croatia State Inspectorate Office prohibiting a company "METEO CENTAR" d.o.o., Zagreb to carry out the activity of meteorological consulting and weather forecast according to communistic law from 1978.
24 April 2002 Letter from Hans Sandebring, President of the ECOMET General Assembly, in response to the letter sent to him on 28 March 2002 by the AEDUE Secretary General.
Instant response to the above letter by e-mail to Hans Sandebring by AEDUE Secretary General.
20 March 2002 "Involvement of the Media, the Private Sector and Academia" Brigadier General John J. Kelly, Jr., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. WMO EC Advisory Working Group on the Role and Operation of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, Second Session, Geneva, 8-12 April 2002
February 2002 Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and their Economic Impacts, Summary Report, Peter Weiss, U. S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service
21 February 2002 AEDUE: Contribution to the "Online Consultation on a Document Outlining a Possible Legal Instrument for the Re-use of Public Sector Information", as initiated by DG Information Society Unit D1
21 February 2002 Comments by Henry Manisty of Reuters London on DG Information Society Working Document "Towards a European Union Framework for the Exploitation of Public Sector
22 January 2002 Response by Danish Meteorological Institute to letter by Vejr2 on ECMWF data availability, with AEDUE comments added
20 December 2001 Statement by the Finnish Competition Authority on a Ministerial Report Considering the Separation of the Commercial Activities of the Finnish Meteorological Institute into a Limited Company
13 December 2001 Free and Open Exchange of Environmental Data. A Policy Statement of the American Meteorological Society. Draft version.
12 August 2001 A letter to Barry Myers, AccuWeather by Daniel Soderman
2 April 2001 A letter to Mr Heinonen, Minister of transport and Communications, Finland about the situation in the meteorological market in The Netherlands.
13 March 2001 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)
20 September 2000 "Commercial Exploitation of Europe's Public Sector Information, Conclusions and Recommendations" (excerpts), prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General for the Information Society by Pira International Ltd., University of East Anglia and KnowledgeView Ltd
12 July 2000 AEDUE letter to the European Commission DG IV/Mario Monti and DG XIII/Erkki Liikanen expressing concern regarding the administrative, technical and financial restrictions on access to essential data imposed by National Meteorological Services in Europe.
12 July 2000 US Weather Service Upsets Private Industry (from USA Today)
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15 June 2000 Letter on behalf of Mario Monti, EC/DG IV Competition Commissioner, signed by Jean-Francois Pons, Deputy Director General, to James Block of CWSA, in response to his letter of May 9, 2000.
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9 May 2000 Letter submitted to Mario Monti, EC Competition Commissioner The Commercial Weather Services Association (CWSA) representing private commercial weather companies in the United States, expressing concern regarding the problems created by ECOMET, including the restrictions and costs imposed by ECOMET and their effects on the end users of all meteorological information, the general public.
3 April 2000 Press Release on the report "The State as a commercial actor" by Statskontoret of Sweden with the theme gto create the same competition conditions for governmental and private actors.
3 April 2000 Discussion on "Free Public Data and Information" initiated by Auli Keskinen of the Finnish Ministry of Environment, during Global Virtual Think-Tank, Boosting the Net Economy on-line debate 3-7 April 2000
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3 April 2000 Discussion on "Free Public Data II" initiated by Daniel Soderman of Weather Service Finland Ltd, Global Virtual Think-Tank, Boosting the Net Economy on-line debate 3-7 April 2000
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1 April 2000 "Free Information Exchange and the Future of European Meteorology: A Private Sector Perspective" by Pirkko Saarikivi, Daniel Söderman, andHarry Newman
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21 October 1999 "Comfort Letter" on the joint sale of meteorological products by ECOMET issued by the European Commission Competition Directorate (DG-IV)
5 October 1999 Visions of Future Weather Services, speech by Dr. Joel N. Myers to the National Weather Service
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18 September 1999 "It never rains" - Article in The Economist on the battle between state-owned and commercial weather forecasters, followed by unpublished rebuttal on "Competition in Weather Forecasting" by Pirkko Saarikivi, Weather Service Finland
19 August 1999 "Enabling Science Through Data Access in the Face of Increasing Protectionism". A Statement by the World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel for Climatology
4 July 1999 International Association of Broadcast Meteorology (IABM) Policy Statement: "IABM and the cost of Weather Information"
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6 October 1997 Global Change Data and Information System & U.S. Global Change Research Program, Policy Statements on Data Management for Global Change Research: "Full and open availability is defined as being available without restriction, on a non-discriminatory basis, for no more than the cost of reproduction and distribution."
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29 January 1997 Coalition for the Open Exchange of Global Data: "International Data Issues Affecting the Private Weather Industry", including "Position Paper on International Data Exchange"
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10 June 1996 "International Information Policy In Conflict: Open and Unrestricted Access versus Government Commercialization" by Peter N. Weiss and Peter Backlund, Borders in Cyberspace, MIT Press 1997.
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26 October 1995 WMO Resolution 40
7 June 1990 Council of the European Communities Directive of 7 June 1990 on the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment (90/313/EEC)
11 October 1973 Convention Establishing the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
25 March 1957 Excerpts from the treaty Establishing the European Community as Amended by Subsequent treaties, Rome, 25 March, 1957