Op-Ed: “Business-to-government data sharing on the Data Act: between a rock and a hard place” by Barbara Lazarotto

The Data Act proposal is the latest Regulation of the European Data Strategy to have been proposed in February 2022, with the main objective of removing the obstacles to the circulation of data and creating value from it through business-to-consumers, business-to-business and business-to-government data sharing. The Proposal has gained attention due to its innovative proposition, which aims to address complex and different concerns related to the data economy depending on the area of regulation. The Act addresses the market dominance within the field of IoT products, cloud and edge computing and aims to advance the European data economy through data reuse, including the public sector. Yet, the trajectory of the Data Act proposal has been