Developers Alliance’s position on the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation on harmonized rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)

Free-flows of data within the Single Market and beyond are essential for the development of the
EU’s digital economy. Instead of tackling the root causes of the existing barriers to data flows, the
Data Strategy (which the Data Act is part of) is trying instead to artificially intervene in the economy
and shape markets around data use. The strategy is based on misconceptions of data.