# Council Decision (EU) 2017/1842 of 9 October 2017 on the open data policy of the Council and the reuse of Council documents, Article 2: Scope

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

1. This Decision applies to documents held and produced by the Council which have been made public by the Council.
2. This Decision shall not apply to documents held and produced by the Council for which the Council is not in a position to allow reuse in view of:
(a) intellectual property rights of third parties; or
(b) access rights regimes in Member States.
3. This Decision is without prejudice to and shall be implemented and applied in accordance with:
(a) the rules on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, and in particular Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
(b) the rules on public access to Council documents, and in particular Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001; and
(c) the security rules for protecting EU classified information, and in particular Council Decision 2013/488/EU.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/1842/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-1842/article-2
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.