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European Commission, Staff Working Document on the Free Flow of Data and Emerging Issues of the European Data Economy Accompanying the Document Communication Building a European Data Economy {COM(2017) 9 final} (Jan. 10, 2017) (full-text).

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This Staff Working Document accompanies the Communication on Building a European Data Economy, adopted on January 10, 2017. The purpose of this Staff Working Document is to provide additional evidence and a detailed description of the emerging issues relevant for the EU data economy.

The objective is to inform the debate and in particular the dialogue with stakeholders on the issues of free flow of data, access to and transfer of non-personal machine-generated data, data liability, as well as issues related to the portability of non-personal data.