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

Index score. 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

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