Riga, 7 December 2020 - In the informal videoconference of the European Union's (EU) telecommunications ministers, the Minister for Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Artis Pabriks, will discuss data management, data availability and the creation of a single data market.
The video conference foresees a discussion on what needs to be regulated in the EU to ensure that data is more widely available and to encourage voluntary sharing between individuals and businesses, as well as what management requirements should be introduced to ensure that data exchange is efficient and reliable.
Minister for Environment and Regional Development, p.i. . D R. Artis Pabriks : “We welcome the timely publication of the “Data Management Act” proposal for a regulation with a view to ensuring a good framework for the management of the Single European Data Area and the fact that data holders can make data available on a voluntary basis. . Look forward to launching discussions in the EU Council on the issues covered by the proposal for a regulation: data management, data for the public, data sharing with the public and private sector and in the European data area m. European data spaces will allow the sharing of data in the EU, both from the public sector and from businesses, at a reliable and lower cost, thereby encouraging the development of new data-based products and services. "
The re-use of data sets provided for in the proposal for a regulation will bring significant benefits to society and the economy, such as geospatial, mobility, land observation and environmental data. . Data re-use has huge economic and social potential: it will open up opportunities for new products and services, make production more efficient and provide tools to tackle societal challenges I. In the field of health, for example, data helps to ensure better health care, improve personalized treatment and cure rare or chronic diseases. Data can be used to develop personalized medicines or to promote studies in the treatment of specific diseases, as well as to improve other advanced services.
One of the main objectives is to create suitable conditions for individuals and businesses to rely on the fact that, when sharing their data, they will be processed by trusted organisations based on EU values and principles. Data lessons enable more evidence-based decisions and policies to be developed U. For example, lessons can be used to respond to emergencies such as floods and forest fires to make our cities greener and cleaner and help people live longer and healthier.
The public sector also has a large number of non-cooling data as they include information on individuals or companies (e.g. health data, information on financial systems), so the proposed proposal for a regulation complements the Open Data Directive, focusing on data that cannot be made available as open data.
The European Commission will support the creation and development of a single European data area, as well as the use of data between the nine strategic areas identified in the February 2020 data strategy: health, environment, energy, agriculture, mobility, finance, production, public administration and skills. Commission plans to invest €two billion to boost data processing infrastructure, tools, architecture and data sharing mechanisms I.
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