Art. 14 Translation | Information sharing system | DSA

This article addresses two practical aspects of AGORA's operation: language accessibility and the legal usability of information exchanged through the system.

The Commission is required to ensure the system works across all official EU languages, while also clarifying that information received via AGORA carries the same legal standing as information obtained through domestic means.

This second point is particularly significant as it removes any potential barrier to using AGORA-sourced material in supervisory or enforcement proceedings.

Important points:

The Commission is required to make AGORA available in all official Union languages and provide automated machine-translation tools for documents and messages.
Digital Services Coordinators and other competent authorities may use information, documents, findings, statements, or certified true copies received via AGORA on the same basis as information obtained in their own country.
Any use of AGORA-sourced material must be for purposes compatible with those for which the data were originally collected, and in accordance with relevant EU and national laws.

1. The Commission shall make AGORA available in all official languages of the Union, and offer to AGORA users automated machine-translation tools for the translation of documents and messages exchanged in AGORA.
1. A Digital Services Coordinator or any other competent authority to which access to AGORA is granted may produce, in relation to the performance of any of the tasks conferred on it in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, any information, document, finding, statement, or certified true copy which it has received in AGORA, on the same basis as similar information obtained in its own country, for purposes compatible with those for which the data were originally collected and in accordance with relevant EU and national laws.