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Copyright notice and free re-use of data
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General principles
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1. The copyright for the editorial content of this website, which is owned by
   the EU, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
   licence. This means that you can re-use the content provided you acknowledge
   the source and indicate any changes you have made. You may be required to
   clear additional rights if certain content depicts identifiable private
   individuals or includes third-party works.

2. Reuse of statistical data, metadata, publications, and other dissemination
   tools published on this website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is
   authorised provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the
   European Commission is implemented by the Decision of  12 December 2011
   <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/833/oj>.

3. These general principles can be subject to conditions which may be specified
   in individual copyright notices. Therefore, users are advised to refer to the
   copyright information on the individual documents.

4. Exceptions to these general principles are listed below.

Exceptions
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- The permission granted above does not extend to any material whose copyright
  is identified as belonging to a third-party, such as photos or illustrations
  from copyright holders other than the European Union. In these circumstances,
  authorisation must be obtained from the relevant copyright holder(s).

- Logos and trademarks are excluded from the above mentioned general permission,
  except if they are redistributed as an integral part of a Eurostat publication
  and if the publication is redistributed unchanged.

- When reuse involves translations of publications or modifications to the data
  or text, this must be stated clearly to the end user of the information. A
  disclaimer regarding the non-responsibility of Eurostat shall be included.

- When reuse involves translations of publications, the following copyright
  information and disclaimer shall be added:

  First published in English (or other language) as ‘Title of the publication'

  by Eurostat on the European Union's official website 'Europa'
  (c) European Union, year
  Translator: XXXXX

  Xxxx (Language of the translation) translation: (c) copyrightholder  (translator), year of the translation
  The translation is the sole responsibility of the author or authors of the
  translation.  In the event of any discrepancy between the original work and
  the translation, only the text of original work shall be considered valid.

- The following Eurostat data and documents may not be reused for commercial
  purposes, but non-commercial reuse is possible without restriction:

  - Data identified as belonging to sources other than Eurostat. All data
    published on Eurostat's website can be regarded as belonging to Eurostat
    for the purpose of their reuse, with the exceptions stated below, or if it
    is explicitly stated otherwise.

  - Publications or documents where the copyright belongs partly or fully to
    other organisations, for example concerning co-publications between Eurostat
    and other publishers.

  - Data for countries other than:
    - Member States of the European Union (EU)
    - Member States of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) official EU
      acceding and candidate countries.

    Examples are data for the United States of America, Japan or China. In such
    cases, the user will need to eliminate these data from the tables before
    reusing them commercially.

  - Trade data originating from Liechtenstein and Switzerland (as declaring
    countries), from 1995 onwards, and concerning the following commodity
    classifications: HS, SITC, BEC, NSTR and national commodity classifications.
    Thus it is, for example, not allowed to sell export/import data declared by
    Switzerland (concerning the above named commodity classifications). However,
    it is allowed to sell Swiss export / import data declared by an EU Member
    State (but see below a similar exception for Austria).

  - Trade data originating from Austria (as a declaring country) for a level of
    detail of the Combined Nomenclature of 8 digits; again, it is not allowed
    to sell export/import declared by Austria (concerning the above named
    commodity classifications), but it is allowed to sell Austrian export /
    import data declared by another EU Member State.

How to re-use Eurostat material for commercial purposes
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There is no special procedure or requirement for a written licence. Just
download the material and use it, unless the material is listed in the
exceptions above.

How to cite Eurostat products
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Parts indicated in squared brackets [ ] should be replaced by the relevant
information by the user.

  Datasets
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  Source: [digital object identifier (DOI) number of the Eurostat dataset], [access date]

  In the dataset, you can use the functionality to copy the DOI URL, which is located below the dataset title.

  Customised versions of a dataset must be cited as following:

  Source: [Eurostat dataset datacode link], [access date]

  The Data Browser provides an online help on how to copy the title together
  with the datacode link of the dataset
  <https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/data-selection-display/save#bookmark-link>.

  Publications
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  European Commission, Eurostat, [Title of the publication], Publication Office
  of the European Union, [year], [link, for example: https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2785/494153]

  You can find the DOI number on the publication products page under the section
  'Additional information'.

  Other products
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  Source: Eurostat, [Title of the product], [link to the product], [access date].

  This concerns for example interactive tools, data visualisations, webpages,
  Statistics Explained articles, PDF documents.
