Why a Data Governance Act?
On 25 November 2020 the European Commission published a Proposal
for a Regulation on European data governance1(the
"Data Governance Act"), part of a set of measures related
to the European data strategy that aims at making the
EU a leader in a data-driven society.
Noting that public authorities are collecting a vast amount of
data that may be of substantial commercial or industrial interest,
the proposed Data Governance Act establishes a framework enabling
private entities to re-use such data for commercial or non-profit
purposes.
In that context, the definition of data as "any digital
representation of acts, facts or information and any compilation of
the same, including in the form of sound, visual or audiovisual
recording" is quite broad.
