# Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information, Article 3: General principle

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

1. Subject to paragraph 2 Member States shall ensure that documents to which this Directive applies in accordance with Article 1 shall be re-usable for commercial or non-commercial purposes in accordance with the conditions set out in Chapters III and IV.
2. For documents in which libraries, including university libraries, museums and archives hold intellectual property rights, Member States shall ensure that, where the re-use of such documents is allowed, these documents shall be re-usable for commercial or non-commercial purposes in accordance with the conditions set out in Chapters III and IV.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2003/98/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2003-98/article-3
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.