On October 4, after the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission reached a political agreement on June 19 to abolish data localization restrictions across the EU, the European Parliament deliberated and passed the Regulation on the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data. on the free flow of non-personal data). The EU Council will approve the regulation on November 6. After that, the regulation will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union and will come into force six months from the date of publication.

Taking into account the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on May 25, the free movement of personal data Fax List within the EU, which together with the GDPR establishes the fifth freedom in the EU, namely After the free movement of , goods, services and capital in the EU, data is now freed from the restrictions imposed by member states’ borders, burdens and barriers and can flow freely within the EU.

In terms of its relationship with the GDPR, the Regulation and the GDPR do not overlap, but complement each other; when there is both personal data and non-personal data in the data set, if the two are separable, the Regulation and the GDPR will apply respectively. GDPR applies if inseparable. In the eyes of EU legislators, this will undoubtedly help to eliminate the data protectionism that threatens the digital economy and pave the way for artificial intelligence, cloud computing and big data analysis to promote the development of the data economy and digital economy to strengthen the EU in competitiveness in the global market.