{"slug": "targeted-consultation-on-safeguarding-the-eus-data-sovereignty", "title": "Targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU’s data sovereignty", "summary": "The European Commission launched a targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU's data sovereignty, seeking input from data value chain actors on barriers to data access and risks from third-country access. The consultation supports the Data Union Strategy and European Tech Sovereignty Package, aiming to strengthen digital autonomy and AI competitiveness.", "body_md": "The [targeted consultation](https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/a921658b-7f28-11c5-d062-3db457c213fa) is open to actors in the data value chain across different sectors. It seeks to understand data-related dependencies affecting European organisations, including barriers to accessing or using data in third countries, obstacles to transferring data to the EU and risks linked to third-country access to sensitive data.\n\nThe consultation follows on the November 2025 [Data Union Strategy](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/data-union), which stresses the importance of safeguarding the EU’s data sovereignty and strengthening the EU’s global position on international data flows.\n\nIt is also closely linked to the [European Tech Sovereignty Package](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-tech-sovereignty), which contains measures to strengthen the EU’s capacity in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and open source.\n\nTogether, these measures support Europe’s ambition to become an AI continent, strengthen its digital autonomy and help build a more sustainable digital future.\n\nThis targeted consultation remains open until 23:59 CEST on 8 September 2026.\n\nData is essential for Europe’s competitiveness and security and plays a key role in advancing AI.\n\nThe EU has built a robust legal framework for data and promotes data free flow with trust internationally.\n\nHowever, unjust data localisation requirements, discriminatory rules, and data leakage to third countries threaten to undermine sovereignty. The EU continues to ensure a level playing field, security, and consistency with EU values and interests while remaining open to our trusted partners, including on the exchange of data across borders.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/targeted-consultation-on-safeguarding-the-eus-data-sovereignty", "canonical_source": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/consultations/targeted-consultation-safeguarding-eus-data-sovereignty", "published_at": "2026-07-08 07:10:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-08 08:09:17.173617+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["European Commission", "Data Union Strategy", "European Tech Sovereignty Package"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/targeted-consultation-on-safeguarding-the-eus-data-sovereignty", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/targeted-consultation-on-safeguarding-the-eus-data-sovereignty.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/targeted-consultation-on-safeguarding-the-eus-data-sovereignty.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/targeted-consultation-on-safeguarding-the-eus-data-sovereignty.jsonld"}}