Access to Data and Use of Data

• Jurisdiction: European Union
• Year: 2022
• Author: Malte Beyer-Katzenberger & Christiane Wendehorst

Speaker

Malte Beyer-Katzenberger and Christiane Wendehorst

Dr. Malte Beyer-Katzenberger studied law & political sciences at Trier and Aix-en-Provence universities and at the College of Europe, Bruges. He holds a Dr. jur. degree from Trier University with a doctoral thesis on the Convention on the Future of Europe.

After having worked at the Academy of European Law in Trier from 2007-2011, he joined the European Commission, DG CONNECT, in November 2011. He is team leader working on policies relating to data-driven innovation. Most recently, he was involved in the formulation of the 2020 EU Data Strategy, the preparation and negotiation of the proposal for a Data Governance Act and the preparation of the Data Act, where he is part of the negotiation team.

Christiane Wendehorst has been Professor of Civil Law at the University of Vienna since 2008. Amongst other functions, she is founding member, Immediate Past President (2017-2021) and now Scientific Director of the European Law Institute (ELI), Chair of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Co-Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, and member of the Managing Board of the Austrian Jurists' Association (ÖJT), as well as of the Bioethics Committee at the Austrian Federal

Chancellery. She is an elected member of the Academia Europea (AE), the International Academy for Comparative Law (IACL), and the American Law Institute (ALI).

Topic

These two presentations delve into specific aspects within the larger framework of "access to data and use of data." In the first presentation, Malte Beyer-Katzenberger sheds light on the recent Commission proposal on the EU Data Act, which was introduced in February 2022. Beyer-Katzenberger provides an insightful overview of the proposal, discussing its key objectives, provisions, and potential implications for data access and utilization within the European Union.

Building upon Beyer-Katzenberger's presentation, Christiane Wendehorst takes the topic a step further and explores the broader implications of data in private law and its significance for the evolving data economy. Wendehorst examines the legal...