EU policy regarding access to non-personal data and its economic analysis

Abstract

Data play an important role in economic growth, job creation, etc. However, it is important to clarify the rules of access to data and to ensure legal certainty. In the European Union, for personal data, the comprehensive legal framework has been settled but for non-personal data it has not. In January 2017, the European Commission published a document explaining its ideas regarding the rules for non-personal data, such as considering the rules of access to non-personal data by third parties. This paper overviews the published document and implements an economic analysis taking into account the characteristics of data such as information asymmetry.