Data Spaces Symposium

Building the Common European Agricultural
Data Space

Dr. Doris MARQUARDTEuropean Commission
DG CNECT, Unit E4

Benefits & challenges of sharing data in agriculture

2Businesses: exploitation of data will
enhance EU industry; create B2B
marketplace; increase access to digital
single market, innovative solutions

Reluctance to share data:
security, competition concerns,
lack of trust

Governments & Public authorities:
sector analysis; data can be used forpolicy monitoring

Dominance of large platforms:
capturing increasing share ofvalue –avoid vendor– lock-inFarmers: Improve performance withdecision support systems; data
accessible from one entry point

Fragmentation: lack of access to(big) data and of interoperabilityof data

The potential of agricultural data Precision farming - Big Wine Optimisation
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Objective: Optimize the use of chemicals

Internet of Things (IoT) technology allows tomonitor weather, vine conditions in real time;
150 sensor nodes to gather data from 5
vineyards, covering 150 hectars
IoT System based on a LoRa private network:• Data gathering in real time (weatherconditions, vine phenological stages)• Big data analysis• Decision-making at anytime and anywhere
through applications on mobile devices

Impacts

Horizon2020 project IoF (https://www.iot-catalogue.com)-Reduced pesticides costs - 20%, Reduced fertilizers costs - 20%,
3.4 liter portable water use reduction per liter product,
Energy use reduction in processing stage, Reduction of GHG
400 Euro/ha Productivity gains
Increased annual savings due to accident prevention

Data sharing in the agricultural sector• B2B data sharing plays an important role

• Challenges to classify data (e.g. personal and non-personal data)• Code of Conduct of Agricultural Data Sharing in the Agricultural Sector inplace; interplay with Data Act to be assessed• (Achieving) Trust in data sharing is a crucial factor• Extent to which B2G data sharing, e.g., to reduce reporting obligations, is inplace, varies across Member States
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Objectives• To facilitate the trustworthy sharing and pooling of data for the sector• A "single data space", building on a set of data sharing initiatives• Transparent control of data access and use• Capitalisation of data for the sector in the private and public domains• Boosting innovation and strengthening the portfolio of data-based solutionsfor famers• Enhancing the performance of the sector→ Lay the foundation for the effective and efficient capitalisation ofagricultural/ agriculture-relevant data for various stakeholders
5Supporting & complementary actions• Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects in the field agricultural data

• DEP funded action on data interoperability at EU level• Testing and Experimentation Facilities for AI in Agri-Food• Provision of High Value Data Sets
Forthcoming• Horizon Europe partnership Agriculture of Data

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Timeline• Step 1: Preparatory action: Co-ordination and Support Action (CSA)- Project“AgriDataSpace” (Q4/2022 – Q2/2024)•••••••

Inventory of existing platforms
Taking stock of experiences with the Code of Conduct
Proposed design approach based on scenarios
Governance scheme
Blue-print for the data space
Interim results used for the development of the implementation action
Input to the work of the data space support centre

CSA follows aparticipatory approach
involving stakeholders
and Member States• Step 2: Deployment Action for the Common European Agricultural DataSpace7•••Call open from February – May 2024 (Info session today, after this session)
Building on results of the CSA
Long-term run-time/ financially sustainableThank you!

▪ Dr. Doris MARQUARDT▪ European Commission▪ DG CNECT, Unit E4▪ doris.marquardt@ec.europa.eu