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3. PSI Implementation in the UK: Successes and Challenges
3. PSI Implementation in the UK: Successes and Challenges
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And third, in the United Kingdom, as well as in other parts of Western Europe in particular, there has been a growing emphasis on legislation concerning access to PSI, or freedom of information laws. So the public is now increasingly thinking of access to information as being a democratic right.
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In the United Kingdom is a set of organizations known as trading funds. Although a trading fund is an operation of a government department, these organizations enjoy a certain amount of self sufficiency in terms of funding, and they are encouraged to behave in a commercial manner.
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The OPSI works closely with some of the audit bodies so that it has experts available who can go into public sector organizations and test what is actually happening in the reuse field. The OPSI works closely with the United Kingdom's Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
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