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Along with technological progress, one can observe socio-economic changes taking place, and the transformation of the EU economy into a digital economy is an eloquent example. The scope of this transformation includes data, which plays an important role in the economy. This may be readily inferred from the European Strategy for Data published by the European Commission, which envisages a data-driven economy. The transformation towards a data-agile economy results in certain modification in the legal space. For instance, the proposal for a data governance regulation introduces an entity referred to as a data altruism organisation. The proposed act also requires EU Member States to designate a competent authority. This paper examines the functioning of said organisations and attempts to define their status, and discusses the duties of competent authorities which may possibly supervise the activities of data altruism organisations.

Data has begun to play a vital role in global, EU-wide and domestic economies. On 19 February 2020, the European Commission published the EU's strategy for data, which outlines a new and unprecedented approach to development. The vision thus described – a data-driven economy – is to be implemented within the next five years.However, this broad undertaking gives rise to a number of legal, economic and social issues which deserve to be more thoroughly examined. In this paper, the author considers how the data economy relates to aspects of competition law, including threats associated with the sharing of confidential company data, and information protected under intellectual property laws, among the participants of the market economy, i.e. businesses. Also, observations are made concerning the hypothetical emergence of monopolies and oligopolies, as well as collusive agreements between enterprises on the grounds of the new approach to development.