# Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents (2011/833/EU), Article 2: Scope

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. This Decision applies to public documents produced by the Commission or by public and private entities on its behalf:
(a) which have been published by the Commission or by the Publications Office on its behalf through publications, websites or dissemination tools; or
(b) which have not been published for economic or other practical reasons, such as studies, reports and other data.
2. This Decision shall not apply:
(a) to software or to documents covered by industrial property rights such as patents, trademarks, registered designs, logos and names;
(b) to documents for which the Commission is not in a position to allow their reuse in view of intellectual property rights of third parties;
(c) to documents which pursuant to the rules established in Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 are excluded from access or only made accessible to a party under specific rules governing privileged access;
(d) to confidential data, as defined in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
(e) to documents resulting from ongoing research projects conducted by the staff of the Commission which are not published or available in a published database, and whose reuse would interfere with the validation of provisional research results or where reuse would constitute a reason to refuse registration of industrial property rights in the Commission’s favour.
3. This Decision is without prejudice to and in no way affects Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
4. Nothing in this Decision authorises reuse of documents in a manner calculated to deceive or to defraud. The Commission shall take the appropriate measures to protect the interests and the public image of the EU in accordance to applicable rules.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/833/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-833/article-2
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.