Legal Notice
Reuse conditions in accordance with Article 8(1) of Royal Decree 1495/2011, of 24 October, implementing Law 37/2007, on the reuse of public sector information, for the State public sector
Obligatory nature of the general conditions
These general conditions will bind any reusing agent for the sole purpose of making use of the documents provided.
Authorization of reuse and non-exclusive transfer of intellectual property rights
These general conditions allow the reuse of the documents submitted to them for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Reuse is understood to mean the use of documents held by the organs of the General Administration of the State and the other bodies and entities of the State public sector referred to in Article 1.2 of Royal Decree 1495/2011, of October 24, which develops Law 37/2007, of November 16, on the reuse of information of the State public sector, by natural or legal persons, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, provided that such use does not constitute a public administrative activity. Authorized reuse includes, by way of illustration, activities such as the copying, dissemination, modification, adaptation, extraction, reordering and combination of information.
The concept of a document is that established in Article 3(2) of the aforementioned Law, and includes all information regardless of its material or electronic support, as well as its form of graphic, sound or image expression used, including, consequently, also the data in its most disaggregated or raw levels.
This authorization also entails the free and non-exclusive transfer of intellectual property rights, where appropriate, corresponding to such documents, authorizing the carrying out of reproduction, distribution, public communication or transformation activities, necessary to carry out the authorized reuse activity, in any modality and under any format, for everyone and for the maximum period allowed by law.
General conditions for reuse
- It is forbidden to denaturalize the sense of information.
- The source of the documents to be reused should be cited. This appointment may be made as follows: “Origin of the data: [administrative body, agency or public sector entity holding the data]”.
- The date of the last update of the documents to be reused should be mentioned, provided that it was included in the original document.
- It may not be indicated, implied or suggested that the administrative body, agency or public sector entity holding the reused information participates in, sponsors or supports the reuse carried out with it.
- The metadata on the date of update and the applicable re-use conditions included, where applicable, in the document made available for re-use should be retained, not altered or deleted.
- When the information, although provided in a dissociated form, contains sufficient elements that could allow the identification of the interested parties in the reuse process, it is prohibited to reverse the dissociation procedure by adding new data obtained from other sources.
Exclusion of liability
The use of the data sets will be made by the users or agents of the reuse under their own account and risk, being exclusively up to them to respond to third parties for damages that may arise from it.
The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities will not be responsible for the use of its information by reusing agents, nor for the damages suffered or economic losses that, directly or indirectly, produce or may produce economic, material or data damages, caused by the use of the reused information.
The Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities does not guarantee continuity in the provision of reusable documents, either in content or form, nor assumes responsibility for any error or omission contained therein.
Responsibility of the re-user agent
The re-user agent is subject to the applicable regulations on the re-use of public sector information, including the sanctioning regime provided for in article 11 of Law 37/2007, of 16 November, on the re-use of public sector information.