As we approach the end of the year, we wanted to come back to one of the very important latest pieces of EU legislation promoting data sharing – namely the EU Data Act.
The Data Act is part of the EU’s broader Data Strategy and builds on previous legislative efforts like the GDPR and the Data Governance Act.
This Data Act is a horizontal regulation which will be completed by sectoral regulation if needed. The aim of this regulation is to foster a fair access to EU data and to foster and boost data sharing in particular for industrial data. The Data Act proposes to increase data sharing possibilities between businesses (B2B) but also between businesses and governments (B2G)