Data Governance Act

{{Short description|EU Regulation establishing a framework for the exchange and use of data}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox EU legislation | title = Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on European data governance and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 (Data Governance Act) | madeby = [[European Parliament]] and [[Council of the European Union]] | status = current | number = (EU) {{CELEX|32022R0868|text=2022/868}} | type = Regulation | madeunder =[[s:Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union/Title VII: Common Rules on Competition, Taxation and Approximation of Laws#Article 114|Article 114]] of the [[Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union|TFEU]] | EEA = yes | commenced = 23 June 2022 | OJrefurl = https://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/868/oj | OJref = L 152, 3 June 2022, p. 1–44 | CommProp = COM/2020/767 final - 2020/0340/COD |application=24 September 2023 }} The '''Data Governance Act''' ('''DGA''') is a regulation by the [[European Union]] that aims to create a framework which will facilitate [[Data sharing|data-sharing]].<ref name="european-commission-2020"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Stolton|first=Samuel|date=26 November 2020|title=New EU data brokers won't have to be European, Commission says|url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/new-eu-data-brokers-wont-have-to-be-european-commission-says/|access-date=2021-06-02|website=www.euractiv.com|language=en-GB|archive-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602220146/https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/new-eu-data-brokers-wont-have-to-be-european-commission-says/|url-status=live}}</ref> The proposal was first announced within the 2020 European strategy for data and was officially presented by [[Margrethe Vestager]] on 25 November 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-07|title=Margrethe Vestager explains the EU's position in the global battle for data|url=https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/07/margrethe-vestager-explains-the-eu-s-position-in-the-global-battle-for-data|access-date=2021-06-02|website=euronews|language=en|archive-date=2021-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602221813/https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/07/margrethe-vestager-explains-the-eu-s-position-in-the-global-battle-for-data|url-status=live}}</ref> The DGA covers the data of public bodies, private companies, and citizens. Its main aims are to safely enable the sharing of sensitive data held by public bodies, to regulate data sharing by private actors.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Press corner|url=https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en|access-date=2021-06-02|website=European Commission - European Commission|language=en|archive-date=2020-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227193856/https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en|url-status=live}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=June 2021}}

On 30{{nbsp}}November 2021, the EU Parliament and Council reached an agreement on the wording of the DGA.<ref name="bertuzzi-2021" /> Following its adoption, it was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 3 June 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Regulation - 2022/868 - EN - EUR-Lex |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/868/oj |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=eur-lex.europa.eu |language=en}}</ref>

The proposed legislation has been analyzed by independent parties.<ref name="baloup-etal-2021"/><ref name="streinz-2021"/><ref name="van-eechoud-2021"/><ref>Vardanyan, Lusine, and Hovsep Kocharyan. "The GDPR and the DGA Proposal: are They in Controversial Relationship?" European Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, Sciendo, 2022, pp. 91-109. https://doi.org/10.2478/eustu-2022-0004</ref>

== See also == * [[Data Act (European Union)]] * [[General Data Protection Regulation]]

== External links == * [https://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/868/oj Official version of the Data Governance Act] on [[EUR-Lex|EUR-lex]] * [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2020_340 Procedure 2020/0340/COD] on EUR-Lex * [https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?lang=en&reference=2020/0340(COD) Procedure 2020/0340(COD)] on [[d:Q386647|ŒIL]]

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<ref name="baloup-etal-2021">{{cite book | last1 = Baloup | first1 = Julie | last2 = Bayamlıoğlu | first2 = Emre | last3 = Benmayor | first3 = Aliki | last4 = Ducuing | first4 = Charlotte | last5 = Dutkiewicz | first5 = Lidia | last6 = Lalova | first6 = Teodora | last7 = Miadzvetskaya | first7 = Yuliya | last8 = Peeters | first8 = Bert | title = White Paper on the Data Governance Act | date = 23 June 2021 | publisher = KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP Law (imec) | location = Leuven, Belgium | ssrn = 3872703 | url = https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3872703 | access-date = 2021-07-01 | archive-date = 2021-07-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210713083431/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3872703 | url-status = live }}</ref>

<ref name="bertuzzi-2021">{{cite web | last1 = Bertuzzi | first1 = Luca | title = Data governance: new EU law for data-sharing adopted | date = 1 December 2021 | work = www.euractiv.com | url = https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/data-governance-new-eu-law-for-data-sharing-adopted/ | access-date = 2022-02-03 | archive-date = 2022-02-03 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220203182848/https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/data-governance-new-eu-law-for-data-sharing-adopted/ | url-status = live }}</ref>

<ref name="european-commission-2020">{{cite book | author = European Commission | title = Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European data governance (Data Governance Act) — COM/2020/767 final | date = 25 November 2020 | publisher = European Commission | location = Brussels, Belgium | url = https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020PC0767&from=EN | access-date = 2021-07-01 | archive-date = 2021-04-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210419075444/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020PC0767&from=EN | url-status = live }} Document 52020PC0767.</ref>

<ref name="van-eechoud-2021">{{cite journal | last1 = van Eechoud | first1 = Mireille | title = A serpent eating its tail: the Database Directive meets the Open Data Directive | date = 1 April 2021 | journal = International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law | volume = 52 | issue = 4 | pages = 375–378 | doi = 10.1007/s40319-021-01049-7 | s2cid = 234823202 | issn = 2195-0237 | url = https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40319-021-01049-7.pdf | access-date = 2022-01-30 | archive-date = 2022-02-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220213175825/https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40319-021-01049-7.pdf | url-status = live }} An{{nbsp}}editorial. {{open access}}</ref>

<ref name="streinz-2021"> {{cite book | last1 = Streinz | first1 = Thomas | editor-last1 = Craig | editor-first1 = Paul | editor-last2 = de Búrca | editor-first2 = Gráinne | title = The evolution of EU law | edition = 3rd | date = 14 October 2021 | chapter = Chapter 0: The evolution of European data law  | pages =  | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-019284656-3 }} Paperback edition. Publication date provisional. </ref>

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