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13 de agosto de 2021
The European Commission is holding a Public Online Consultation on the Data Act. The Data Act aims to facilitate access to and use of data, including business-to-business and business-to-government, and to review the rules on the legal protection of databases.
The EU Commission is committed to ensuring fairness in how the value from using data is shared among businesses, consumers and accountable public bodies.
You can reply to the survey, which closes on 3 September 2021, here: EUSurvey – Data Act Public Online Consultation.
In the framework of the Data Act, the EC is exploring options on cloud-related aspects such as cloud switching and access to data by third country jurisdictions. It seeks the right balance between rights to access data and incentives to invest in data, without changing the current data protection rules.
The European Commission aims at collecting the views of Member States’ competent public authorities, academic and research institutions, business associations, industrial clusters, companies/businesses, consumer organisations, NGOs, trade unions and citizens. All these stakeholder groups are expected to provide important feedback and insights on measures that would create a fair data economy by ensuring better control over and conditions for data sharing for citizens and businesses.
The gathered views of all interested parties will help shape the Data Act. This legislative initiative aims to create a fair data economy by ensuring access to and use of data for legitimate purposes, including in business-to-business and business-to-government situations. The consultation will collect information on the following:
This content was originally published in theNGI News blogon the 4th August 2021.
