Data Sharing Regulation in Europe

This book provides a comprehensive examination of data sharing within the EU, exploring the regulatory challenges and opportunities created by EU frameworks and policies.

As data becomes a critical resource across sectors, EU regulators, policymakers and scholars face the urgent task of crafting frameworks that support data sharing while ensuring fairness, competition and protection of personal data. Through its chapters, the book adopts a holistic approach, analyzing data sharing from the perspectives of EU law, intellectual property, competition law, data protection and governance. It addresses the impact of recent EU legislation ― including the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Digital Services Act (DSA), Data Governance Act and Data Act ― on enabling or limiting data-sharing practices, particularly in the private sector. Each chapter offers policy recommendations and insights, collectively building a robust theoretical framework for responsible data sharing.

This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and students of EU law, competition law, data protection, intellectual property and governance, offering timely insights and a nuanced exploration of the evolving EU data-sharing landscape.

The Introduction and Chapter 7 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Laura Zoboli is an Assistant Professor at the University of Brescia and the Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the University of Warsaw, where she started her academic tenure. She is the Co-Director of the ASCOLA Center Europe Chapter. Laura earned her PhD from Bocconi University, where she currently teaches Data Law. Among her research experiences, she has been a research fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Her research focuses on the overlaps between competition law, intellectual property and regulation within data economy.

Maciej Bernatt is a Professor of Law at the University of Warsaw, Poland. He holds the Chair in European Economic Law at the Faculty of Management, and serves as the Director of the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies. He is the Co-Director of ASCOLA Central Europe Chapter. Maciej holds a Habilitation, PhD and MA titles in law and a second MA title in international relations. He held visiting appointments at the Bocconi University, the University of Chicago and the University of Melbourne, among others. Maciej's research interests lie at the intersections of competition law with constitutional law and EU law.