A new EU Trade Secrets Directive – and a danger to media freedom?
By Beata WalczakiewiczThe European Parliament adopted a new directive on trade secrets. But journalists’ organisations criticize the move as they fear that investigative journalism will be restricted.
The impact assessment of European Union showed that in many Members States the rules aimed at safeguarding trade secrets are not appropriate in addition to needs of the Internal Market. The pace of development is not as rapid as expected. Companies in the EU do not share valuable information with each other because of the ineffective legal protection of trade secrets. Therefore, new innovations cannot exist as a result of the collaborative research…
