Source: OJ L, 2025/2050, 9.10.2025Current language: EN
- Digital services act
Delegated acts
- Data access for vetted researchers
Article 14 Independent expert consultation
Before formulating a reasoned request, or taking a decision on an amendment request, the Digital Services Coordinator may decide to consult experts.
The experts shall be independent and impartial and possess relevant expertise and proven skills and have the capacity and resources to perform the identified task, without incurring undue delay.
To attest impartiality, the experts shall sign a declaration confirming that they:
have no financial or personal ties to the data provider or the applicant researchers;
have no interest in the outcome of the data access process;
are free from any conflicts of interest.
The Digital Services Coordinator shall encode any consultation carried out pursuant to paragraph 1, along with the expert opinion received in response to the consultation, without undue delay in AGORA.
Springlex and this text is meant purely as a documentation tool and has no legal effect. No liability is assumed for its content. The authentic version of this act is the one published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Definition
reasoned request
Definition
recipient of the service
Definition
information society service
Definition
data access process
Definition
applicant researcher
Definition
data provider
Definition
intermediary service
- a ‘mere conduit’ service, consisting of the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service, or the provision of access to a communication network;
- a ‘caching’ service, consisting of the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service, involving the automatic, intermediate and temporary storage of that information, performed for the sole purpose of making more efficient the information's onward transmission to other recipients upon their request;
- a ‘hosting’ service, consisting of the storage of information provided by, and at the request of, a recipient of the service;
Definition
amendment request
Definition
online platform
Definition
online search engine
Definition
Digital Services Coordinator of establishment