Opinion  |  01/18/2021

Position Paper on the Draft of a Second Open Data Act and a Data Usage Act (DNG)

The position paper of Heiko Richter welcomes the high ambitions of the legislative proposal, but criticizes its failure to completely fulfill them, as the draft hardly goes beyond the requirements of EU Directive 2019/1024, and Section 12a of the E-Government Act falls short of its potential. In addition, the position paper also makes specific suggestions for improvement for the further legislative process.