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Subject matter and scope
This Regulation lays down the practical and operational arrangements for the functioning of a reliable and secure information sharing system, hereinafter ‘AGORA’, for supervision, investigation, enforcement and monitoring under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.
Information sharing system
1. The information sharing system AGORA is hereby established. 2. AGORA is a software application accessible via the Internet, and the tool used for the exchange of information, including, where necessary, personal data, which would otherwise take place via other means, including regular mail or electronic mail. 3. AGORA shall be used for the exchange of information, including the exchange of information containing personal data, between Digital Services Coordinators, the Commission, and the European Board for Digital Services (‘the Board’), as well as with other competent authorities that are granted access to AGORA to carry out the tasks conferred upon them in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, in relation to the supervision, investigation, enforcement and monitoring of that regulation.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, in addition to the definitions set out in Article 3 and 49(1) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, and Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, the following definitions shall apply: a) ‘AGORA’ means the information sharing system established and maintained by the Commission to support all communications pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 between AGORA actors for the supervision, investigation, enforcement and monitoring under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065; b) ‘AGORA actor’ means the Digital Services Coordinators, the Commission, the Board, or other competent authorities that are or may be granted access to AGORA where necessary for them to carry out the tasks conferred on them in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2022/2065; c) ‘AGORA user’ means a natural person working under the authority of an AGORA actor, and registered as such in AGORA, for the purpose of performing the tasks conferred on the AGORA actor by Regulation (EU) 2022/2065; d) ‘AGORA administrator’ means an AGORA user appointed by an AGORA actor for the purpose of managing AGORA for that actor.
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