The European Commission is preparing to present its ‘Data Governance Act’ on 11 November, which will increase the availability of data in the EU. This 38-page draft regulation, as seen by EUROPE, proposes in particular the creation of an expert group and the creation of a European consent form for the collection of data for public good purposes.
It will need to be supplemented by an ‘implementing act on high-value datasets’, such as statistics and geospatial data, as well as by a...