Building the European Data Economy

In view of the European Commission’s public consultation on building the European data economy, CECED welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the debate and appreciates the European Commission’s approach to clarify several relevant issues before proposing possible legislation.

To take full advantage of the digital transformation and compete effectively worldwide, a timely completion of the European Digital Single Market is crucial, ensuring free movement of goods, people, services, capital and data. However, we also recommend policy makers to be cautious and to carefully assess if and where action or coordination at European level is needed to achieve a business and innovation-friendly legal framework for data use. This paper provides a summary of the CECED reply to the public consultation, and addressing issues like: data ownership, use and access, privacy, liability and free flow of data.

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