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Dun Bradstreet Belgium NV

Dun Bradstreet

Dun Bradstreet (DB) has been the world's leading provider of global business information for over 180 years.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Digital package – digital omnibus

14 Oct 2025

Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) supports the European Commission's ambition to simplify and harmonise the EUs digital regulatory landscape through the Digital Omnibus initiative. As a global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, D&B recognises the transformative impact of digitalisation on both public and private sector operations. The current data acquis including the Data Governance Act, Free Flow of Non-Personal Data Regulation, and Open Data Directive alongside key legislation such as the EU AI Act, EU GDPR, ESG ratings, credit, and anti-money laundering frameworks, have evolved in silos, resulting in inconsistencies in definitions, obligations, and enforcement across Member States. This fragmentation creates legal uncertainty, increases compliance costs, and undermines the EUs digital competitiveness. We recommend that the simplification agenda be guided by the following core principles: 1. Avoiding duplication: Ensure horizontal rules do not unnecessarily overlap with existing sector-specific requirements. 2. Focusing on effectiveness: Align regulatory obligations with desired outcomes rather than prescriptive processes. 3. Ensuring proportionality: Balance regulatory benefits with compliance costs, taking into account prior investments by firms. 4. Providing legal clarity: Reduce fragmentation and uncertainty across Member States to support innovation and scale. 5. Maintaining a global perspective: Align with international standards to ensure European businesses remain globally competitive. To address the important challenges of complexity in legislation alongside the inconsistencies in obligations and enforcement, as well as to support the EU's overall aim of supporting growth and innovation, we recommend the following: 1. Consolidation of overlapping provisions into a coherent framework for data access, sharing, and re-use, with clear guidance on applicability across sectors. 2. Clarification of the distinction between personal and non-personal data, particularly for mixed datasets, to reduce legal ambiguity. 3. Recognition of legitimate interest as a valid legal basis under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for business information service providers to process public sector and non-PSI data for defined compliance and risk mitigation purposes. 4. Inclusion of sole trader data within the scope of re-usable public sector information, with recognition of their dual capacity (personal vs. business) to support transparency, creditworthiness checks, and fraud prevention. 5. Streamlining of incident and breach reporting across NIS2, DORA, and GDPR frameworks through a report once principle to reduce duplication and improve efficiency. 6. Formal recognition of business information service providers like Dun & Bradstreet as strategic partners in the EU Digital ID and Business Wallet ecosystem, helping to ensure fair competition and continued access to public sector and open data. We also urge the Commission to promote greater cooperation between national authorities to ensure consistent transposition and implementation of EU-level directives. A harmonised approach will enable trusted providers to scale innovative solutions across the Single Market, while maintaining high standards of data protection, financial integrity, and consumer trust. Dun & Bradstreet remains committed to supporting a future-proof, innovation-friendly regulatory environment that empowers responsible data use and strengthens Europes digital economy. [Please see attached document for further detail]
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