Data Access and Portability and EU Competition Law

This short paper will discuss the right to access and port data under EU Competition Law and EU sector-specific regulations. While general Competition Law is not readily available, stipulating a difficult test for the plaintiff, the EU Commission seems very keen on granting access and portability rights to data under newly enacted sector specific regulations, without any scrutiny in reference to the competitive effects of such rights. Indeed, to access and port data under these sector specific r