The IMCO Committee in the European Parliament approved its opinion for the Free Flow of nonpersonal
Data (FFoD). The regulation will ensure a 5th freedom of movement in EU, namely the free
movement of data, and help boost Europe’s capabilities to generate jobs, growth and deliver valuable AI
technologies.
“It is truly great that the European Parliament has passed the regulation accelerating the Free Flow of Data
in the EU. The Free Flow of Data will bring Europeans closer together, and few files in history will have the
impact on growth as this one. It will deliver concrete results towards a real Digital Single Market.
The Free Flow of Data brings us a major step closer to a situation where companies can grow in the European
Market not only in the national market, research can be based on European data not domestic data, and
citizens can educate themselves in Europe not only in their home country.
We hope the Council will buy in to the European Parliament’s ambitions in this field”, voiced Cecilia BonefeldDahl,
Director-General of DIGITALEUROPE
DIGITALEUROPE remains vigilant on the final conclusions on the the FFoD during the upcoming trilogues. It
would be critical to the future of the EU that any last-minute negotiations will not add exceptions or narrow
the scope in any way. In particular, any attempt from the Member States to remove public authority data
from scope would handicap the EU’s efforts to exploit its vast amounts of data which is necessary to compete
internationally in the race to develop new technologies such as AI.
