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# DigitalEurope and ZVEI say Digital Omnibus still misses the mark on Data Act
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-06-19-digitaleurope-zvei-joint-article-digital-omnibus/
- Published: 2026-06-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:55:51.000Z
- Description: DigitalEurope's Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl and ZVEI's Sarah Baumchen wrote that the Digital Omnibus, as the Cypriot presidency pushes it to a close, still forces manufacturers to share trade secret data with rivals and leaves GDPR compliance costs near EUR 1.5 million a year per firm.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [DigitalEurope and ZVEI joint article, 19 June 2026](https://www.digitaleurope.org/news/joint-article-too-fast-and-too-short-sighted-what-the-digital-omnibus-is-missing-zvei-digitaleurope/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that the Council changed the Data Act text; it records the two associations' own assessment.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Opinion on EU-wide Digital Omnibus law; no institutional move, hence binding 1. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)