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DigitalEurope and ZVEI say Digital Omnibus still misses the mark on Data Act

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.

Verified Opinion AI-drafted DigitalEurope and ZVEI joint article, 19 June 2026

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

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

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