Amendment 737· Data Act Article 32c(d)(ii)

In order to qualify for registration in the public Union register referred to in Article 32a paragraph 1 point (a), a data intermediation services provider shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) they do not use the data for which it provides data intermediation services for purposes other than to put them at the disposal of data users; (b) the data they collect with respect to any activity of a natural or legal person for the purpose of the provision of the data intermediation service, including the date, time and geolocation data, duration of activity and connections to other natural or legal persons established by the person who uses the data intermediation service, are used only for the development of that data intermediation service; (c) where they offer additional tools and services to data holders or data subjects for the specific purpose of facilitating the exchange of data, such as temporary storage, curation, conversion, encryption, anonymisation and pseudonymisation, such tools and services are used only at the explicit request or approval of the data holder or data subject; (d) where data intermediation service providers which are not micro and small sized enterprises offer value-added services to their clients other than the services referred to in point (c), they fulfil the following conditions: (i) the value-added services are explicitly requested by the user; (ii) the data are not used for other purposes than performing the value-added service, such as advertising, profiling, ranking, price discrimination, training of AI systems or any purpose other than putting those data at the disposal of data users in accordance with the instructions of the data holder or data subject; (iii) the value-added services are offered through a functionally separate entity; (iv) the undertaking seeking to offer the value-added services is not designated as a gatekeeper pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925; (v) the commercial terms, including pricing, for the provision of data intermediation services to a data holder or data user are not dependent upon whether the data holder or data user uses value-added services provided by the data intermediation services provider or by a related entity; (e) the data intermediation services provider offering services to data subjects acts in the data subjects’ best interest where it facilitates the exercise of their rights, in particular by informing and, where appropriate, advising data subjects in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible manner about intended data uses by data users and standard terms and conditions attached to such uses before data subjects give consent.