Article 32v

High-value datasets are made available for re-use free of charge, in machine-readable format and, where relevant, as bulk downloads, precisely because of their significant socio-economic potential. That very openness heightens the risk that datasets containing personal data or strategically sensitive economic information be misused or transferred in a manner harmful to the persons concerned or to the economic security of the Union and its Member States. This amendment ensures that such datasets, where they contain personal data, are protected by anonymisation or by state-of-the-art pseudonymisation, and, where they contain data assimilable to trade secrets, know-how or strategically sensitive economic information, are made available subject to economic-security safeguards, including binding conditions preventing onward transfer or misuse. These guarantees accompany, rather than restrict, the availability of high-value datasets, and are confined to what is necessary and proportionate.