Data Act: New Rules about Fair Access to and use of Data

Data-driven technologies are becoming more and more relevant every day. The constant increase in products connected to the Internet corresponds to an increase in the volume of data generated, the content of which represents a fundamental resource both for technological and economic evolution and with a high impact for businesses, citizens, and the public sector on the whole. This is the underlying motivation behind the approval of the Data Act, the new EU Regulation adopted on 27 November 2023 which aims to create a European regulatory framework based on clear rules on data sharing, a fair and guided data economy in the European Union. Keywords: Data economy; Market regulation; EU policies; Data Protection; Data Circulation; Access; Sharing; Interoperability.