CHAPTER IV

DGA Article 19: Registration of recognised data altruism organisations

1. An entity which meets the requirements of Article 18 may submit an application for registration in the public national register of recognised data altruism organisations in the Member State in which it is established.

2. An entity which meets the requirements of Article 18 and has establishments in more than one Member State may submit an application for registration in the public national register of recognised data altruism organisations in the Member State in which it has its main establishment.

3. An entity which meets the requirements of Article 18 but which is not established in the Union shall designate a legal representative in one of the Member States in which the data altruism services are offered.

For the purpose of ensuring compliance with this Regulation, the legal representative shall be mandated by the entity to be addressed in addition to or instead of it by competent authorities for the registration of data altruism organisations or data subjects and data holders, with regard to all issues related to that entity. The legal representative shall cooperate with and comprehensively demonstrate to the competent authorities for the registration of data altruism organisations, upon request, the actions taken and provisions put in place by the entity to ensure compliance with this Regulation.

The entity shall be deemed to be under the jurisdiction of the Member State in which the legal representative is located. Such an entity may submit an application for registration in the public national register of recognised data altruism organisations in that Member State. The designation of a legal representative by the entity shall be without prejudice to any legal actions which could be initiated against the entity.

4. Applications for registration referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall contain the following information:

(a) the name of the entity;

(b) the entity’s legal status, form and, where the entity is registered in a public national register, registration number;

(d) the entity’s sources of income;

(e) the address of the entity’s main establishment in the Union, if any, and, where applicable, any secondary branch in another Member State or that of the legal representative;

(f) a public website where complete and up-to-date information on the entity and the activities can be found, including as a minimum the information referred to in points (a), (b), (d), (e) and (h);

(g) the entity’s contact persons and contact details;

(h) the objectives of general interest it intends to promote when collecting data;

(i) the nature of the data that the entity intends to control or process, and, in the case of personal data, an indication of the categories of personal data;

(j) any other documents which demonstrate that the requirements of Article 18 are met.

5. Where the entity has submitted all necessary information pursuant to paragraph 4 and after the competent authority for the registration of data altruism organisations has evaluated the application for registration and found that the entity complies with the requirements of Article 18, it shall register the entity in the public national register of recognised data altruism organisations within 12 weeks after the receipt of the application for registration. The registration shall be valid in all Member States.

The competent authority for the registration of data altruism organisations shall notify the Commission of any registration. The Commission shall include that registration in the public Union register of recognised data altruism organisations.

6. The information referred to in paragraph 4, points (a), (b), (f), (g) and (h), shall be published in the relevant public national register of recognised data altruism organisations.

7. A recognised data altruism organisation shall notify the relevant competent authority for the registration of data altruism organisations of any changes to the information provided pursuant to paragraph 4 within 14 days of the date of the change.

The competent authority for the registration of data altruism organisations shall notify the Commission of each such notification by electronic means without delay. Based on such a notification, the Commission shall update the public Union register of recognised data altruism organisations without delay.

What this article means in practice

Written by Engage Compliance. The text above is the article itself, reproduced from its official source and unchanged. Everything in this section is ours, and last read against the current text on 2026-09-07.

Article 19 is how an organization gets on the public register of recognised data altruism organisations. Paragraph 3 is the provision a non-EU organization needs: it designates a legal representative in a Member State where it offers data altruism services, and that designation is what lets it apply for registration there at all.

Who it binds

An entity meeting the Article 18 requirements that wants to be a recognised data altruism organisation. Article 18 is the gate, so an entity that does not meet it is not in scope of Article 19 at all.
An entity meeting Article 18 but not established in the Union has to designate a legal representative in one of the Member States where the services are offered (Article 19(3)).
An entity with establishments in more than one Member State applies in the one holding its main establishment (Article 19(2)).
Registration is voluntary in the sense that Article 19(1) says an entity may apply, but the recognised status and the label that goes with it are only available through it.

What it makes somebody do

You, the entity, if outside the Union. Designate a legal representative in one of the Member States where the data altruism services are offered (Article 19(3)).
You, the entity. Mandate the representative to be addressed in addition to or instead of you by the competent authorities for registration, and by data subjects and data holders, on all issues related to you (Article 19(3)).
You, the entity. Submit the application with the information Article 19(4) lists, including your legal status, your statutes where appropriate, your sources of income and the address of the representative (Article 19(4)(e)).
The representative. Cooperate with the competent authorities and comprehensively demonstrate to them, on request, what you have done and put in place to comply (Article 19(3)).

What it does not say

It does not make the representative responsible for the entity's compliance with Article 18. The representative demonstrates and is addressed; meeting the requirements stays with the entity.
It does not move liability. Article 19(3) says the designation is without prejudice to any legal action which could be initiated against the entity.
The sources-of-income disclosure in Article 19(4)(d) is not optional detail. A data altruism organisation's funding is part of what registration examines, which is a meaningfully more intrusive application than the Article 11 notification.
It is not the same appointment as Article 11(3). The counterparty is the authority for registration of data altruism organisations rather than the authority for data intermediation services, and the two regimes have different conditions.

How it sits beside the other mandates

Article 18 is what Article 19 registers against. Reading Article 19 without Article 18 gives you the procedure without the test.
Article 11(3) is the sibling appointment for data intermediation. An organization running an intermediation service and a data altruism programme needs both, and the same person can hold both only if both mandates are given.
Article 20 sets the transparency requirements a registered body then carries, so registration is the start of an ongoing obligation rather than the end of an application.

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