# Council Decision (EU) 2017/1842 of 9 October 2017 on the open data policy of the Council and the reuse of Council documents, Article 3: Definitions

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

For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) ‘document’ means:
(a) any content whatever its medium (written on paper or stored in electronic form or as a sound, visual or audiovisual recording) concerning a matter relating to the policies, activities and decisions falling within the institutional sphere of responsibility of the Council;
(b) any part of such content;
(2) ‘reuse’ means the use by persons or legal entities of documents for commercial or non-commercial purposes other than the initial purpose for which the document was produced;
(3) ‘personal data’ means data as defined in point (a) of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001;
(4) ‘open format’ means a file format that is platform-independent and made available to the public without any restriction that impedes the reuse of documents;
(5) ‘machine-readable format’ means a format structured for software applications to identify reliably individual statements of fact and their internal structure.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/1842/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-1842/article-3
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