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 the Royal Decree 1495/2011, of 24 October
In it the Law 37/2007, of 16 November on the reuse of public sector information 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 document is the one established in article 3, paragraph 2 of Law 37/2007, of 16 November, on the reuse of public sector information, so it includes all information whatever 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 the intellectual property rights, where appropriate, corresponding to such documents, authorizing the carrying out of activities of reproduction, distribution, public communication or transformation, necessary to carry out the authorized reuse activity, in any modality and under any format, for the whole world and for the maximum period allowed by law.