DMs & DGA: a Business Perspective

A pleasure working with Alba Ribera Martínez on this text about Data Marketplaces and the Data Governance Act: A Business Model Perspective, which was published in Kluwer Competition Law Blog.

The Data Governance Act sets up a harmonised framework for the development of trustworthy data intermediation services in the Union to enable a competitive environment for data sharing. This instrument requires data intermediation service providers to be neutral with regard to the data that are exchanged, the data holders, the data subjects, and the data users. It establishes the obligation for data intermediation service providers to be registered as an EU Recognised Data Intermediary and the conditions they must fulfil to do so. 

Such conditions are not necessarily aligned with some of the trends observed in the market, which may create friction in applying and enforcing the Data Governance Act. In this post, we highlight some of these points of friction and discuss some derived challenges that competent authorities (these may be data protection authorities, according to the co-legislators) for data intermediation services will face when interpreting and applying the DGA in the current market.

Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoy it, and your comments are more than welcome!