Data Strategy Briefing — June 9, 2024
Member States must make priority high-value datasets available free of charge by 9 June 2024 under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138, accelerating open-data obligations.
Executive briefing: 9 June 2024 marked the deadline for EU Member States to provide the first category of high-value datasets (geospatial, earth observation, environment, meteorological, statistics, and mobility) under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138, requiring machine-readable formats, APIs, and bulk download options.
Key data governance checkpoints
- Inventory updates. Confirm national authorities published mandated datasets in open, machine-readable formats with applicable metadata.
- API readiness. Evaluate API coverage, rate limits, and licensing terms to integrate high-value datasets into analytics programmes.
- Quality monitoring. Track dataset refresh frequencies and quality indicators to ensure compliance with the regulation’s accuracy requirements.
Operational priorities
- Integration pipelines. Automate ingestion of updated high-value datasets into data lakes and modelling workflows.
- Commercial strategy. Assess new products or services that can leverage freely available datasets while respecting attribution and licensing conditions.
- Compliance reviews. Document reuse policies and attribution statements to meet regulatory reuse obligations.
Enablement moves
- Engage with national open-data portals to report API issues or request additional metadata.
- Update internal data catalogues to flag high-value datasets, their refresh cadence, and reuse restrictions.
Sources
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138
- European Commission guidance on high-value datasets
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