News Implementation of the Data Governance Act in the Portuguese legal system 24/01/2025

It has been published in Diário da República, Decree-Law no. 2/2025, of 23 January, that ensures the implementation in the internal Portuguese legal order of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on European data governance and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 (Data Governance Act).

This Decree-Law:

• Establishes the competent body to support public sector bodies, the single information point, the competent authorities for data intermediation services and the competent authority for the registration of data altruism organisations; and
• Define the sanctioning regime arising from the provisions of the Data Governance Regulation, referring, in the event of any gaps, to the Legal Regime for Economic Administrative Offences, approved by Decree-Law no. 9/2021, of 29 January, in its current wording.

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