Add Written Questions by the European Parliament to Kleineanfragen

[MathiasSchindler]

Under Rule 130 of the European Parliament Rules of Procedure, Members of parliament are allowed to ask Written Questions to the President of the European Council, the Council, the Commission or the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Questions and Answers are available in English and the Language of the Member of Parliament asking the question.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/parliamentary-questions.html?tabType=wq#sidesForm

[robbi5]

That looks like a great idea :) We have to check first if they are exempt from copyright, like in germany (§ 5 Abs. 1 UrhG)

[MathiasSchindler]

Hi robbi5, I think you got your question backwards, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzlandprinzip. It is about your location whether to invoke §5 UrhG, not about the source of the material.

As a fallback option, reuse of EP text is permitted: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en/legal-notice

"As a general rule, the reuse (reproduction or use) of textual data and multimedia items which are the property of the European Union (identified by the words '© European Union, [year(s)] – Source: European Parliament' or '© European Union, [year(s)] – EP' ) or of third parties (© External source, [year(s)]), and for which the European Union holds the rights of use, is authorised, for personal use or for further non-commercial or commercial dissemination, provided that the entire item is reproduced and the source is acknowledged. However, the reuse of certain data may be subject to different conditions in some instances; in this case, the item concerned is accompanied by a mention of the specific conditions relating to it"

[globalworming]

After some research I can state: parsing questions and answers from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/parliamentary-questions.html is more tedious than our usual targets:

• no possibility to list all documents or some meaningful pagination, we only get up to four result pages so a search by date for every day may be needed
• no PDFs
• questions not included in the answer document
• answers as plain text like http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=P-2015-014940&language=EN but more often as downloadable Word document like http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bWQ%2bP-2015-014817%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN which is called getAllAnswerers.bin WTF

We totally could parse that but we would need to somehow stitch together everything and create a PDF if we do not want to deviate too far from the usual display of documents on kleineAnfragen.de.

[MathiasSchindler]

FYI

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and

"Dear Mr Schindler,

Further to our previous reply, we thank you again for your valuable suggestion. We inform you that ODP services discussed the topic with the European Parliament, which is currently evaluating several options for making its data available in other formats.
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[MathiasSchindler]

Spoke to @robbi5. Looking good.

[globalworming]

Looking good

As far as I recall, the course of action was to just start with what we can parse easily to leverage the requests for bettter data from the EU. @robbi5 I'm curious with what name you will come up 😄