Mandatory registration of data intermediation service (DGA)
Do you have a data intermediation service? You must register with the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) before you can offer your services. Your services must also be neutral. This is required by the Data Governance Act (DGA). The DGA aims to ensure greater trust in data sharing.
What is a data intermediation service?
A data intermediation service, or data intermediary, offers services to connect data holders and data users, for the purpose of sharing data. This applies not only to services that offer the technology to share data. Matchmaking services, such as a data marketplace, are also covered by the DGA.
Registering data intermediation services
Do you have a data intermediation service? And are your headquarters established in the Netherlands, or do you have a legal representative in the Netherlands? Then you must register with ACM (in Dutch). If ACM approves your registration your data intermediation services will be listed in the EU register of data intermediation services. You are then allowed to offer your data intermediation services throughout the European Union.
Using the EU trust mark
Registered data intermediation services are allowed to use an EU trust mark (logo). This logo indicates that your data intermediation service is recognised within the European Union. Using the logo is not mandatory. If you opt to use the logo, you must use it in all your online and offline communications about your services. You can request the EU trust mark free of charge with ACM (in Dutch).
Neutral data intermediation service
Your data intermediation service must be neutral:
- You cannot use the data you receive for any other purpose than to share the data with the data user at the request of the data holder.
- You cannot offer other data related services.
- You must help natural persons exercise their privacy rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).