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Building a European data economy

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    COM(2017) 9 final. English PDF, 18 pages. Official publication edition corresponding to this record.

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Official title
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Building a European data economy
Official reference
COM(2017) 9 final
Document type
Communication
Document date
2017-01-10
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Document issue
Document-date evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · Document information — The cited official manifestation establishes the document date 2017-01-10 and its stated meaning.
Publication date
2017-01-10
Publication-date evidence
European Commission · IP/17/5, Brussels, 10 January 2017; opening description of the communication presented today — The cited official manifestation establishes official publication on 2017-01-10.
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Final
Legal status
Non binding
Language
en

Research classifications

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Principal
Version status
Final
Temporal collection
Historical lineage
Relevance class
AI-related precursor
Policy stage
Agenda setting
Corpus tier
Directly related
Sectors
  • General cross sector
  • Transport and mobility
  • Competition and markets
Policy membership

    Classification evidence

    • Relevance class: AI-related precursor · Publications Office of the European Union · Section 4, opening analysis of autonomous connected systems; sections 4.1 and 4.2 on liability and possible responses. — The communication develops safety, liability, data-access and insurance policy for autonomous machines and connected robots; it is policy analysis, not an automated-decision legal instrument.
    • Sector tags: General cross sector · Publications Office of the European Union · Sections 3 and 4: machine-generated data across sectors and liability for connected products, services and autonomous systems. — It addresses cross-sector data and liability rules for connected/autonomous systems.
    • Sector tags: Competition and markets · Publications Office of the European Union · Sections 3.2-3.5 on data access, market control, bargaining power and lock-in; section 5.1 on portability and switching costs. — It examines data access, ownership, portability and market conditions.
    • Sector tags: Transport and mobility · Publications Office of the European Union · Section 4, opening discussion of self-driving vehicles; section 6 on testing data-access and liability approaches in automated mobility. — Its autonomous-system analysis includes self-driving vehicles.
    • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · Publications Office of the European Union · Document information — EUR-Lex names the European Commission and DG CNECT as author/responsible body.
    • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · IP/17/5, Brussels, 10 January 2017; opening description of the communication presented today — The dated official Commission IP/17/5 release states that the data-economy communication was presented on 10 January 2017.

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    Provenance tags
    • Authored by an EU institution
    • Officially published
    Named bibliographic authors
    None recorded after review
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    CELEX
    52017DC0009

    Research assessment

    Inclusion rationale
    Identity, issue/dispatch date, authorship and substantive autonomous-system relevance are resolved, and the dated Commission IP/17/5 press release independently states that the data-economy communication was presented on 10 January 2017.
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    verified

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    Verification

    Expanded evidence review
    Verified
    Reviewed by
    Yichen Hao
    Evidence review date
    2026-09-05T06:37:06.8601555Z

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    • Last verified: 2026-09-05T06:37:06.8601555Z · IP/17/5, Brussels, 10 January 2017; opening description of the communication presented today: The dated official Commission release says that the communication presented that day outlines policy and legal solutions for a European data economy.
    • Last verified: 2026-09-05T06:27:41.6613488Z · Document information: EUR-Lex gives 10 January 2017 as document and dispatch date and identifies Commission/DG CNECT.
    • Last verified: 2026-09-05T06:27:41.6613488Z · Sections 1 and 4, Liability: The text analyses data and liability questions for connected robots and autonomous machines, including changing behaviour through operation.

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