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Last updated: 2009.

Terms and Conditions

(applies to information available free of charge)

  1. Use of any material or information that the International Energy Agency (IEA) provides free of charge (‘Free Information’) constitutes an agreement between the IEA and the user and the user’s acceptance of the following terms and conditions and the IEA's disclaimer.

  2. Any Free Information provided to the user by the IEA is subject to copyright by the OECD/IEA. The user is responsible for any breach of copyright it may commit.

  3. Portions of the Free Information may contain material or information which is subject to the copyright of a third party. If the user wishes to reproduce any such material or information, it must obtain the necessary permission from the copyright owner.

  4. The following forms of copying are permitted and do not require the prior written permission of the IEA:

    • officials of IEA Member countries may access the information for official purposes without limitation as to reproduction, distribution or storage within their government;
    • all other users may use and reproduce any Free Information on an occasional and infrequent basis.

  5. Except with permission in writing from the IEA (Click here for Permission Request Form), the user:

    • cannot modify, translate, alter, amend or disassemble any Free Information in any way;
    • cannot alter, delete or conceal the copyright notices contained in any Free Information; and
    • cannot store any Free Information in a shared electronic archive or database.

  6. If the user has the right to reproduce certain portions of any Free Information in accordance with these terms and conditions, the user must ensure that all such material or information is clearly attributed to the IEA, and bears a notation that it is copyrighted by the OECD/IEA, with the year of the copyright and the publication from which it was taken (i.e., [name of publication] © OECD/IEA, [year of publication])

  7. Provided the above terms and conditions are fully respected, a user who maintains a website may include hyperlinks to the IEA website or to any Free Information, without having to seek specific permission. However, permission to include a hyperlink does not include permission to use the IEA logo or acronym or any of its intellectual property without prior written permission.

    A link to the IEA website, or any of its web pages, may not be used for the promotion of any organisation, company or individual or any commercial products or services.