Office of Public Sector Information

Members

Any public sector body can apply to become an IFTS member, whether or not they are a Crown body.

Some government departments have delegated authority from the Controller of HMSO to license the re-use of the Crown copyright material which they originate. IFTS Accreditation is used as the method of regulating decisions about the licensing of Crown copyright information by those bodies. The Controller of HMSO has also granted limited delegations to parts of government departments which have responsibility for specialised forms of licensing activity. These organisations undergo the IFTS Online Assessed process rather than IFTS Accreditation.

Non-Crown bodies can become accredited to the IFTS, although their copyright material is not Crown copyright and is not vested in the Controller of HMSO.

The following have undergone full IFTS verification and have been accredited

Organisation	Date of Delegation	Accredited	Commitment*	Summary/Report
British Geological Survey (BGS)	N/A (non Crown)	October 2004 (re-accredited September 2006)	BGS commitment	BGS report (PDF - 119 KB)
Coal Authority	N/A	April 2009	Coal Authority commitment	Coal Authority report (PDF - 205 KB)
Companies House	04/08/09	March 2009	Companies House commitment	Companies House report (PDF - 198 KB)
Central Office of Information (COI)	24/05/02	September 2008	COI commitment	COI report (PDF - 282 KB)
Driving Standards Agency	14/01/02	April 2004 (re-accredited May 2006 and February 2009)	DSA commitment	DSA report (PDF - 511 KB)
Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency	20/12/2005	February 2006 (re-accredited May 2008)	DVLA commitment	DVLA report (PDF - 264 KB)
Environment Agency (non Crown)	N/A	November 2004 (re-accredited May 2006)	Environment Agency commitment	Environment Agency report (PDF - 687 KB)
Fire Service College (FSC)	06/04/01	February 2005 (re-accredited April 2007)	FSC commitment	FSC report (PDF - 404 KB)
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO)/Office of the Queen's Printer for Scotland (OQPS)	N/A	November 2002 (re-accredited August 2005 and May 2007)	HMSO commitment	HMSO/OQPS report (PDF - 184 KB)
Land Registry	31/05/02	January 2004(re-accredited January 2006 and January 2009)	Land Registry commitment	Land Registry report (PDF - 207 KB)
Met Office	25/01/02	November 2004 (re-accredited November 2005 and September 2007)	Met Office commitment	Met Office report (PDF - 177 KB)
Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency	04/10/02	July 2006 (re-accredited July 2008)	MHRA commitment	MHRA report (PDF - 274 KB)
MOD, Directorate of Intellectual Property Rights	28/06/06	December 2005 (re-accredited May 2009)	MOD commitment (PDF)	MOD, Directorate of Intellectual Property Rights report (PDF - 177 KB)
Ordnance Survey	6/06/02	April 2003 (re-accredited October 2005 and November 2007)	OS commitment	OS report (PDF - 243 KB)
Land & Property Services, Northern Ireland	01/04/08	August 2008	LPS commitment (Word - 46 KB)	LPS report (PDF - 113 KB)
Registers of Scotland	15/08/01	September 2004 (re-accredited February 2008)	Registers of Scotland commitment (PDF - 6 KB)	Registers of Scotland report (PDF - 184 KB)
The National Archives	N/A	December 2007	The National Archives commitment (PDF - 20 KB)	The National Archives report (PDF - 251 KB)
UK Hydrographic Office	10/10/01	January 2003 (re-accredited November 2005 and June 2007)	UKHO commitment (PDF - 6 KB)	UKHO report (PDF - 209 KB)

*Commitments are published on departmental/agency websites. Clicking these links will take you to an external website.

The following have delegations to license specific types of information and undergo IFTS Online Assessment:

Organisation	Date of Delegation	IFTS Assessed	Material Licensed
Defence Geospatial Intelligence	08/04/03	August 2005	Aerial photographs and imagery geographical information
Department of Culture Media and Sport (Government Art Collection Branch)	21/09/01	May 2005	Photographic and digital archives of the Government Art Collection
Forestry Commission (Picture Library)	29/10/01	April 2005	Photographs, films and other visual material
GCHQ	07/02/02	May 2005	Information and databases created by GCHQ
Historic Scotland	04/12/01	July 2005	Historic Scotland's Photographic Library
Office for Government Commerce (OGC)	23/12/05	December 2005	IT Infrastructure Library Framework
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments for Scotland	18/06/01	November 2006	Photos, manuscripts, documents and drawings originated by or for RCAHMS, RCAHMS databases
Royal Mint	31/12/04	September 2006	Photographs and coin designs