EU data policy: the major construction s • Table.Briefings

With the Data Governance Act, which was negotiated this week, the EU has entered new territory: shaping regulatory markets that in part do not yet exist. But while the Data Governance Act went through with comparatively little controversy, the next project, the Data Act, is likely to be much different.

Europe’s data rights strategy must meet several requirements at once: On the one hand, it must guarantee the protection of European values, on the other hand, it must ensure the functioning of the markets, and thirdly, it is a geopolitical lever. The protection of personal data, primarily known under the heading of the General Data Protection Regulation, has set the style: The EU can obviously set standards so that the rest of the world has to follow them.

EU data policy: the major construction site is yet to come

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