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Scaleway is the second European cloud services provider supplying a range of pioneering cloud infrastructure services for professionals.

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Response to Data Act (including the review of the Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases)

13 May 2022

As a leading alternative European cloud service provider, Scaleway is welcoming very positively the Data Act proposal published by the European Commission. We share the objective of the European Commission to remove commercial /financial, technical, contractual obstacles that still prevent customers from switching between cloud services, developers’ freedom of choice -annihilating therefore effective and smooth free flow of data on the internal market. As stated by VP Vestager, we are convinced it will also “allow for more competition in an area that is increasingly important for business users and governments alike”, and will be a source of increased resilience for our digitalized societies, as the uptake of multicloud in Europe should be accelerated accordingly. To make sure the provisions of the text concretely enable to match this level of ambitions we fully support, it is now important, in our view, to bring further precisions and adjustments on various aspects in the articles of chapter VI - to name a few: more granular definition of data processing services, better identification of the successive steps of the switching process, inclusion of a definition of data egress costs, identified as an issue in the impact assessment, the 3-year period proposed for switching charges reduction, which seems quite long given how fast the cloud markets are booming in Europe, better identification of commercial, technical, contractual and organizational obstacles providers of data processing service shall remove. We are also completely supportive of the targets of the Commission about international transfers of non-personal data, considering the risk posed by non-EU legislations with extraterritorial impact, not even solved by any kind of data localization policy : in order to protect the value of the rapidly increasing amount of non-personal data and provide maximum legal certainty and predictability as to the protection of their clients’ data integrity, continuity and confidentiality, it seems indispensable for providers of a data processing service to ensure relevant safeguards preventing international transfers of industrial data or access by a third government that is not compatible with European or national legislation. We will be glad to support the colegislators’ efforts in the finalization of the negotiations, and help them understand the challenges and opportunities created by this important regulation for the EU tech ecosystem, based on our two-decade long experience on the webhosting and (public) cloud markets.
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Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

27 Apr 2021 · Presentation of the company, EU's Digital Decade