Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/138
The EU Commission has published a list of “high-value datasets” (this includes aerial imagery) that public authorities must make available free of charge and under an open licence, “through application programming interfaces (‘APIs’) and bulk download”. After a transitional period of 16 months, the regulation will come into force on 9 June 2024.
However, a delay of up to two years may be possible:
Member States may exempt individual public sector bodies, upon their request and in line with the criteria set out in the Directive from the requirement to make high-value datasets available free of charge for a period not exceeding two years from the date of the entry into force of this Implementing Regulation.