Data Governance Act (DGA)
Table of Contents
Chapter I – General provisions
Chapter II – Re-use of certain categories of protected data held by public sector bodies
Chapter III – Requirements applicable to data intermediation services
Chapter IV – Data altruism
Chapter V – Competent authorities and procedural provisions
Chapter VI – European Data Innovation Board
Chapter VII – International access and transfer
Chapter VIII – Delegation and committee procedure
Chapter IX – Final and transitional provisions
Recitals (63)
Recital 16
(16) In order to facilitate and encourage the use of data held by public sector bodies for the purposes of scientific research, public sector bodies are encouraged to develop a harmonised approach and harmonised processes to make that data easily accessible for the purposes of scientific research in the public interest. That could mean, inter alia , creating streamlined administrative procedures, standardised data formatting, informative metadata on the methodological and data collection choices and standardised data fields that enable the easy joining of data sets from different public sector data sources where relevant for the purposes of analysis. The objective of those practices should be to promote the publicly funded and produced data for the purposes of scientific research in accordance with the principle of ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’.