In areas where there has been market failure, it said access to data “should be made compulsory [ . . . ] under fair, transparent, reasonable, proportionate and/or non-discriminatory conditions”.
It suggested it may revise previous EU directives to remove obstacles such as whether data can be classified as a trade secret.
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