June 2003, with no restriction other than the obligation to quote the source and to respect its
integrity.
Art. 7-bis
(Reuse of published data)
1. The obligations to publish personal data other than sensitive and judicial data referred to in article 4,
paragraph 1, letters d) and e), of Legislative Decree n. 196 of 30 June 2003, entail the possibility to
disseminate such data through institutional websites, as well as to process them in such a way as to
ensure their indexing and traceability through web browsers and their reutilization pursuant to article
7 and in accordance with the principles applicable to the processing of personal data.
2. The publication on the institutional websites, in accordance with this decree, of the data related to the
holders of bodies issuing political guidelines, and of offices or tasks of direct cooperation, as well as
related to the directors of administrative bodies, is aimed at bringing transparency to the public
sector, i.e., something which adds up to the achievement of a goal of significant public interest in
accordance with the rules applicable to the protection of personal data.
3. The public administrations may decide to publish on their institutional websites data, information
and documents that they are not obliged to publish pursuant to this decree or on the basis of a
specific law or regulatory provision, subject to the restrictions set out in art. 5-bis, by making
anonymous the personal data, if any, contained therein.
4. Where the law or regulations provide for the publication of acts or documents, the public
administrations shall make, with respect to the specific purposes of transparency of the publication,
unintelligible any personal data that it is not relevant or, in case of sensitive or judicial data, not
essential.
5. The information concerning the performances of anyone in charge of a public function and his/her
assessment shall be made accessible by the relevant administration. It is not permitted to publish,
except in the cases provided for by the law, information concerning the nature of the diseases and
family problems that prevent the relevant employee from going to work, as well as the components
of the performance assessment or the information concerning the employment relationship between
the aforesaid employee and the administration, which are capable of disclosing any of the data
referred to in article 4, paragraph 1, letter d) of Legislative Decree no. 196/2003.
6. The restrictions on the access and dissemination of the information referred to in Article 24,
paragraphs 1 and 6, of Law n. 241 of 7 August 1990, as subsequently amended, of all of the data
referred to in article 9 of Legislative Decree n. 322 of 6 September 1989, and of those provided for
by the EU legislation concerning the protection of statistical confidentiality, and of those which are
expressly qualified as confidential by domestic and European regulations on statistics, as well as
those relating to the dissemination of data capable of disclosing health and sex life shall be
maintained.
7. The Commission referred to in article 27 of Law n. 241 of 7 August 1990, shall continue to operate
also after the expiry of the mandate provided for by the legislation currently in force, without any
charges for the State budget.
8. The services of aggregation, extraction and massive transmission of documents stored in databases
made available on the web, are beyond the scope of this decree.