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EU Health Data Space: Megaproject gets underway

The EU Commission's draft regulation seeks to balance data protection and innovation. The project is to be in place by 2025. At the same time, it is seen as a kind of test run for other sectoral data spaces.

By Eugenie Ankowitsch

Retail resists broad sustainability requirements

The new Ecodesign Directive is supposed to specify additional sustainability criteria for more products. Retailers would prefer a catalog of specific rules. Consumer advocates see this as a delaying tactic.

By Manuel Berkel