Article 2

(4ca) ‘data intermediation service’ means a service which aims to establish commercial relationships for the purposes of data sharing between an undetermined number of data subjects and data holders on the one hand and data users on the other, through technical, legal or other means, including for the purpose of exercising the rights of data subjects in relation to personal data, excluding at least the following:

(a)services that obtain data from data holders and aggregate, enrich or transform the data for the purpose of adding substantial value to it and license the use of the resulting data to data users, without establishing a commercial relationship between data holders and data users;

(b)services that focus on the intermediation of copyright-protected content;

(c)services that are exclusively used by one data holder in order to enable the use of the data held by that data holder, or that are used by multiple legal persons in a closed group, including supplier or customer relationships or collaborations established by contract, in particular those that have as a main objective to ensure the functionalities of objects and devices connected to the Internet of Things;

(d)data sharing services offered by public sector bodies that do not aim to establish commercial relationships;

(4cb) (5) ‘connected product’ means an item that whose primary function is obtaining, generating, or collecting obtains, generates or collects data concerning its use or environment and that is able to communicate product data via an electronic communications service, physical connection or on-device access, and excluding any item whose primary function is not the storing, processing or transmission of data other than data concerning its use or environment on behalf of any party other than the user;

(29)‘public emergency’ means an exceptional situation, limited in time, such as a public health emergency, an emergency resulting from natural disasters, a human-induced major disaster, including a major cybersecurity incident, negatively affecting the population of the Union or the whole or part of a Member State, with a risk of serious and lasting repercussions for living conditions or economic stability, financial stability, or the substantial and immediate degradation of economic assets in the Union or the relevant Member State and which is determined or officially declared in accordance with the relevant procedures under Union or national law; for the purposes of this Regulation, ‘responding to a public emergency’ refers to immediate actions necessary to address and manage the emergency while it is ongoing, whereas ‘mitigating or supporting the recovery from a public emergency’ refers to immediate actions taken after or once the immediate phase of the emergency has passed, aimed at limiting its consequences and restoring normal conditions within a timely manner;

(29)‘public emergency’ means an exceptional situation, limited in time, such as a public health emergency, an emergency resulting from natural disasters, a human-induced major disaster, including a major cybersecurity incident, negatively affecting the population of the Union or the whole or part of a Member State, with a risk of serious and lasting repercussions for living conditions or economic stability, financial stability, or the substantial and immediate degradation of economic assets in the Union or the relevant Member State and which is determined or officially declared in accordance with the relevant procedures under Union or national law; for the purposes of this Regulation, ‘responding to a public emergency’ refers to the immediate actions necessary to address and manage the emergency while it is ongoing, whereas ‘supporting the recovery from a public emergency’ refers to actions taken after or once the immediate phase of the emergency has passed, aimed at limiting its consequences and restoring normal conditions;

‘Data altruism organisation’ means a legal person operating on a not-for-profit basis and independently from any for-profit entity, which carries out activities enabling the voluntary sharing and use of personal or non-personal data for objectives of general interest.