Reports and Studies about Building a European data economy

A newly published study analyses existing security certification schemes for cloud computing, and asks why they have not been more widely adopted. It also sets out the minimum requirements that an EU-wide certification scheme in cloud computing would need to cover.

The aim of this EU-funded report is to analyse the collaboration models between Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) and Cloud Open Source software development initiatives, propose practical ways to further strengthen their interaction and to develop a roadmap of actions to improve the integration of open source communities in the standard setting process.

The objective of the study is to identify possible commonalities and barriers for interaction between standardisation and open source processes.

The general report gives an update on how the EU is delivering on its 10 priorities, including the Digital Single Market.

This EU-supported study analyses the possibilities for using European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) to develop the uptake of cloud computing, and provides guidance on how to accelerate the development of cloud computing infrastructures and services. The key message is that cloud computing has the potential to offer regions access to advanced computing capacity on a service and cost-shared pay-per-use basis. This can reduce the need to invest heavily in prohibitively expensive data centres, hardware and software.

Considering the fast changing nature of the data market and the emergence of new trends, this study evaluates the performance of the PSI Directive and analyses how to make it relevant for the next 10 years. Based on the best data available, this study provides an assessment of the effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence and added value of the PSI Directive and builds on this to offer some policy options and perspectives for the future.

This study aimed at collecting evidence on the impacts of the Database Directive in support of the Evaluation Report on the Database Directive, published by the European Commission on the 25th of April as part of the third data package.

The Commission held a consultation on the review of Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information (PSI Directive) between June 2017 and late January 2018. This synopsis report presents the results of the consultation process and highlights the main findings gathered by the Commission.

The Evaluation Report on the Database Directive has been published on the 25th of April as part of the third data package. Within this evaluation context, the Commission carried out a public consultation between 24 May, and 30 August 2017. The aim of the consultation was to understand how the Database Directive, and in particular the sui generis protection of databases, is applied and what impact it had on users and makers. 113 replies were received (mainly from the publishing sector, the research and academic sector, the IT sector and the transport sector).

This study brings quantitative and qualitative evidence on companies' approach to making available data to other companies ("B2B data sharing").