- Upcoming EU legislation that aims to put users and providers on an equal footing regarding data access is expected to generate billions of euros of additional GDP for Europe.
- As data will be the infrastructure of the future data economy, “we really have to ensure that more players in the data market actually get this data.
- Del Castillo pointed to a risk of overburdening small and medium-sized enterprises “by imposing further design obligations in relation to the products they design or manufacture, or the related services they might provide”.
EU seeks to ‘seize the opportunity’ of data economy

