Delegated act on data access under the Digital Services Act (DSA)

This delegated act complements the DSA rules that oblige VLOPs and VLOSEs to grant access to researchers to publicly available data on their platforms. This will allow research on the systemic risks and on the mitigation measures in the European Union, overall contributing to the monitoring of the online environment and, therefore, to a safer online world.

The delegated act lays down the technical conditions and harmonises the procedures for the management of the data access process. Moreover, it sets out which information Digital Services Coordinators (DSCs), VLOPs and VLOSEs must make public to facilitate vetted researchers' applications to access relevant datasets.

With the adoption of the delegated act, the Commission also launched the DSA data access portal where researchers interested in accessing data under the new mechanism can find information and exchange with VLOPs, VLOSEs and DSCs on their data access applications.