RCEP对数据跨境流动的规制及其重要影响

RCEP’s Regulation on Cross-Border Data Flow and Its Important Impact

《区域全面经济伙伴关系协定》(RCEP)作为重要的区域自由贸易区协定(FTA),对数据跨境流动作出了新规定。RCEP注重安全的数据跨境流动,即在尊重国家数据主权的基础上,允许数据跨境自由流动的同时设置基本安全例外条款。这种以尊重为基础的合作共治模式与欧美的“零和博弈”思维相异。另外,RCEP数据跨境流动条款在WTO相关规则滞后的情况下对推动区域数字治理、健全全球数据流动规则等具有重要意义。作为RCEP的缔约国,中国应当以此为外在推动力,在坚守国家安全观的基础上扩大数据跨境流动的开放水平,形成数据治理“中式模板”,为数字发展和数据治理贡献中国智慧和中国方案,推动形成更加包容、更加贯通、更加开放的国际数字法治格局。

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP),as an important regional free trade area agreement(FTA),has made new regulations on the cross-border flow of data.RCEP focuses on the safe cross-border flow of data,that is,on the basis of respecting national data sovereignty,while allowing the free flow of data across borders,it sets basic security exceptions.This respect-based cooperative co-governance model is different from the"zero-sum game"thinking in Europe and the United States.In addition,the RCEP data cross-border flow clause is of great significance to promoting regional digital governance and improving global data flow rules when the relevant WTO rules are lagging behind.As a state party to RCEP,China should take this as an external driving force,expand the openness of cross-border data flow on the basis of adhering to the national security concept,and form a"Chinese-style template"for data governance,contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to digital development and data governance,and promote the formation of a more inclusive,more coherent,and more open international digital rule of law pattern.