The inter-institutional negotiations on the free flow of non-personal data are expected to begin soon. At the end of a brief vote, the European Parliament's internal market committee (IMCO) granted a negotiating mandate on Monday 4 June to Anna Maria Corazza Bildt (EPP, Sweden) by 28 votes, with 3 against. The main difficulty is expected to involve the question of whether to include public undertakings in the regulation's scope.
It should be recalled that the draft regulation presented in...