Document the re-use of which is associated with important benefits for society, the environment and the economy, in particular because of their suitability for the creation of value-added services, applications and new, high-quality and decent jobs, and of the number of potential beneficiaries of the value-added services and applications based on those datasets; Under the OD Directive such datasets should be in general[1]  free of charge, machine readable, provided via APIs and as bulk download where relevant.

Source: OD Directive.