Information about Data Protection and Data Governance


Information related to Data Act and other Policy Frameworks


Information related to Ethics and Consumer Rights


Resources and information on Data Protection

FAME is a joint effort of world-class experts in data management, data technologies, the data economy, and digital finance.

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework of the EU and Economic Area that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information from individuals who lives but also when they are outside of the European Union (EU).

The DATA Act entered into force on 11 January 2024. It is a law that aims to make information on federal expenditures more easily accessible and transparent. The Data Act Regulates and Harmonise rules on fair access to and use of data addressing the challenges and unleash the opportunities presented .

On 25 November 2020, The European Commission published the Data Governance Act (DGA) in response to the public consultation on the European Strategy for Data, which was the first deliverable under the European strategy for data protection and became applicable in September 2023.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a EU regulation that aims at strengthening the IT security of financial entities such as banks, insurance companies and investment firms and making sure that the financial sector in Europe is able to stay resilient in the event of a severe operational disruption.

The Network and Information Security (NIS) version 2 Directive (NIS2) establish a high common level of cybersecurity and is the first piece of EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity, The specific aim is to achieve a high common level of cybersecurity across the Member States.

The existing regulatory framework applicable to authorization and supervision of payment institutions and e-money institutions (EMIs) currently anchored in PSD2 and the second E-Money Directive (EMD2) will be merged into a single rule book comprised of PSD3 and PSR.

The Consumer Rights Directive applies to most contracts between traders and consumers and applied to all contracts issued after 13 June 2014. The Consumer Right Directive enhances consumer rights by setting rules on information provision, withdrawal rights and contractual provisions.

The Directive on open data and the re-use of public sector information, also known as the Open Data Directive, entered into force on 16 July 2019. The Open Data Directive aims to make public sector data more accessible across the EU. By promoting the availability of high-value data sets.

The FAME Regulatory Compliance tool is NOT giving legal advice in the formal sense, but providing succinct legal information that can facilitate regulatory compliance in relation to use cases and scenarios within the FAME project pilots and for their participant stakeholders and the project partner’s participants, these scenarios and the pilots can be seen as reference but neither the partners nor the creators of this online tool are responsible or liable for other uses beyond demonstration purposes.