On June 21, 2022, the second consortium meeting of the STAPL project took place in Hamburg. The host this time was the law firm BDO Legal. The agenda included event planning for the second half of 2022 and reports on the current status of work from the various working groups.
Adjustments to the schedule due to the delayed delivery of components for the data logger were discussed in the steering committee.
The day before, a workshop was held as part of WG 7 (Data Governance). The specialist presentations and the subsequent discussion dealt with, among other things, the admissibility of reverse engineering, aspects of antitrust law when companies merge to exchange data, and the question of whether industrial property rights exist for raw data and aggregated data.
STAPL represented at the booth of PSI Transcom GmbH
At the international conference and trade fair IT-TRANS, which took place from May 10th to 12th, 2022 in Karlsruhe, the research project STAPL was presented at the stand of the project coordinator PSI Transcom. Representatives of STAPL’s partner companies answered visitors‘ questions and met with great interest in the topic of legally compliant acquisition and use of sensor and diagnostic data from public transport vehicles.
Special attention was paid to the legal questions, e.g. regarding data ownership and rights of use, which are to be answered in the research project.
There was also a lively exchange with the representatives of the sponsor BMDV and other funding projects represented at the fair.
Cooperation with VDV and ITxPT
An important prerequisite for the economic use of vehicle data is the standardization of data content and interfaces. STAPL is therefore working intensively on the relevant standardisation activities of the Association of German Transport Operators (VDV) and the international non-profit organization Information Technology for Public Transport (ITxPT). The aim is to achieve European harmonisation of the standardisation work.
Representatives of VDV and ITxPT were present at the fair and took the opportunity for professional discussions. Specialist lawyer Matthias Niebuhr from STAPL partner BDO Legal presented an initial assessment of the draft of the EU Data Act. The EU Data Act is intended to facilitate access to data generated in products as well as to create legal certainty with regard to the usage of this data.
Contact
Michael Preusker | Project Coordinator PSI Transcom GmbH
