ECIPE Seminar: Unleashing the Internal Data Flows in the EU

Speeches by Vice-President Andrus Ansip, European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament

With the launch of a new ECIPE report “Unleashing the internal data flows in the EU: An Economic Assessment of Data Localisation Measures in the EU Member States” that highlights the questions:

• What restrictions apply to cross-border data flows between EU Member States?
• Why is a discipline against data localisation needed within the Single Market?
• What are the economic gains from avoiding the of data localisation measures?

Confirmed speakers: Vice-President Andrus Ansip, European Commissioner for the Digital Single Market; Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Director of ECIPE.