Part of the European strategy for data is to create a single European data space. That means a “genuine single market for data, open to data from across the world – where personal as well as non-personal data, including sensitive business data, are secure and businesses also have easy access to an almost infinite amount of high-quality industrial data.”

In addition, the EU Commission wants to promote the development of common European data spaces in strategic economic sectors and areas of public interest. In these nine sectors, big data pools, the technical tools and infrastructures necessary for the use and sharing of data, and appropriate governance mechanisms are to be created: industrial (manufacturing) data space, Green Deal data space, mobility data space, health data space, financial data space, energy data space, agriculture data space, data spaces for public administration, skills data space.