Regulatory Scrutiny Board issues a positive opinion with reservations

The European Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board issued a positive opinion with reservations on the impact assessment for the Data Act. The board found that the internal Commission report was substantially improved on both the problem definition and the costs and benefits analysis.

However, it still found it short in articulating its relationship with other legislative initiatives in the field, the scope of data access provisions for connected products and services, and on the conditions for business-to-government data sharing obligations in exceptional situations and public emergencies.