Europe’s data policy: model for CB • Table.Briefings

The planned Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is intended to ensure that non-European suppliers are subject to comparable rules on CO2 emissions as local producers. So far, it is unclear how the instrument can be designed to ensure that companies from other countries also comply with high climate protection standards. The EU has already solved a similar problem in digital policy.

The fact that the European Union can introduce and establish global standards can be considered proven. The best example of this is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): Anyone who wants to process personal data in EU countries is subject to it anyway. Anyone who wants to do this from outside and process data in a third country is also bound by these rules. This is because it is not the country of origin principle that applies, but the so-called market location principle.

Europe’s data policy: model for CBAM?

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