EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, CONTENT AND
TECHNOLOGY
The Director-General
Brussels, 30 March 2026
Their Excellencies the Permanent
Representatives of the Member
States to the European Union
Their Excellencies the Ambassadors
of the missions of the EEA
countries to the European Union
Subject: Appointment or reconfirmation of EU Member State members and
EEA Country observers to the Data Policy Committee
Your Excellencies,
Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act) (1) confers implementing powers on the
Commission for the adoption of implementing acts, in accordance with Article 291(2) of
the TFEU. For this purpose, the Regulation provides that the Commission shall be assisted
by a committee (the ‘Data Policy Committee’) within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No
182/2011 (2).
The Data Policy Committee was already established by Regulation (EU) 2022/868 (Data
Governance Act) (3).
Following the above, a number of implementing acts need to be adopted by the
Commission in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 46(2) of
the Data Act.
(1) Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2023 on
harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 and
Directive (EU) 2020/1828 (Data Act)
(2) Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying
down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the
Commission’s exercise of implementing powers
(3) 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)
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111
Office: L-51 09/DCS – Tel. direct line +32 229-91069
Considering that the Data Policy Committee was last convened in 2023, you are invited to
update the information on your representatives to the Committee by confirming the current
representative(s) or by appointing new representative(s).
EU Member States are kindly requested to communicate the names and contact details of
their appointed member(s) of the Committee to
[email protected] within 2
weeks of receipt of this letter.
Similarly, EEA countries are kindly requested to communicate the names and contact
details of their appointed observer(s) of the Committee to the same address within the
same timeframe.
Indicatively, the committee will likely be convened in April 2026.
For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact
[email protected]
from DG CNECT, Unit G.1.
Yours sincerely,
Roberto Viola
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Cc: BATISTA Filipe; BEZZINA Claire; BJÖRESTEN Nina (Permanent Representation of Sweden = Représentation permanente de Suède); BLARY Benoît; BRUNS Eike;
[email protected]; CANECKY Marek; DANMARK NIELSEN Maria (Permanent Representation of Denmark = Représentation permanente du Danemark); DIMITROVA Kalina; GARBARCZYK Piotr (Permanent Representation of Poland = Représentation permanente de la Pologne); HR - ZIZA NEVENKA; KAIVOLA Tuomas; KANBERGA Zita; KLEMENCIC Christoph; KOTTRA Gergo (Permanent Representation of Hungary = Représentation permanente de la Hongrie); LEBON Mignon; LOIZOS SOLOMOU; MORTHENS Sóley Gréta Sveinsdóttir (Embassy of Iceland = Ambassade d'Islande); NATIVI Stefano; Anna-Liisa Pärnalaas;
[email protected]; ROMERO DUPLA Carlos (Permanent Representation of Spain = Représentation permanente d'Espagne); SCHMITZ Thomas; SERWIR Sofie (Permanent Representation of Belgium = Représentation permanente de la Belgique); SIMONAITIS Mindaugas (Permanent Representation of Lithuania = Représentation permanente de la Lituanie); TIŠLER Tomas (Permanent Representation of Slovenia = Représentation permanente de la Slovénie);
[email protected]; VERONIKA Chvala Vinklarkova (Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU)
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