On 22 February 2021, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (the Presidency) released the first compromise text of the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Data Governance (the Data Governance Act). The compromise text was discussed at the meeting of the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society (WP TELECOM) on 25 February 2021. You can find our high-level overview of the original European Commission’s proposal here. The compromise text proposed by the Presidency introduces changes to various chapters of the Data Governance Act, including the following: definitions: new definitions of “data sharing service provider” and “data cooperative” are included, definition of “data altruism” is clarified and the term “metadata” is dropped from the proposal;