Source: OJ L, 2025/2050, 9.10.2025Current language: EN
- Digital services act
Delegated acts
- Data access for vetted researchers
Article 7 Formulation of reasoned request
Summary What does Article 7 of the Data access for vetted researchers say?
This article sets out the core decision-making timeline for the Digital Services Coordinator of establishment once a data access application has been received.
Building directly on Article 8, which defines the prerequisites the Coordinator must consider, Article 7 establishes that the Coordinator has 80 working days to decide whether to formulate a reasoned request and either send it to the data provider or explain to the principal researcher why it could not be made.
A limited extension mechanism is also provided for justified cases.
Important points:
- The Digital Services Coordinator of establishment must decide within 80 working days whether to formulate and submit a reasoned request to the data provider, or explain to the principal researcher why it cannot.
- The decision must take into account the prerequisites set out in Article 8.
- Where additional time is needed in duly justified cases, the Digital Services Coordinator of establishment must notify the principal researcher as soon as possible, giving reasons for the delay and a new deadline.
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Within 80 working days from the submission of a data access application, the Digital Services Coordinator of establishment, taking due account of the prerequisites set out in Article 8 and, where applicable, any other assessment relevant for these purposes, shall decide whether a reasoned request can be formulated and shall undertake one of the following actions:
formulate a reasoned request, submit it to the data provider and notify the principal researcher of the submission of the reasoned request;
inform the principal researcher of the reasons why the reasoned request could not be formulated.
Where, in duly justified cases, the Digital Services Coordinator of establishment needs additional time to formulate a reasoned request, it shall notify the principal researcher as soon as possible and shall indicate the reasons for the delay as well as a new date for undertaking the actions referred to in paragraph 1.
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reasoned request
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recipient of the service
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information society service
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principal researcher
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applicant researcher
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data access application
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data provider
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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;
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online platform
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online search engine
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Digital Services Coordinator of establishment