Recital 23

Data and documents, which can be made publicly available for reuse, and data and documents, which are protected on the grounds of commercial confidentiality, including business, professional and company secrets, statistical confidentiality, the protection of intellectual property rights of third parties or the protection of personal data, are often held by the same public sector bodies. Therefore, it is necessary to align definitions and common principles applying to all public sector information and address questions regarding the interplay of the two sets of rules.