§ Data Governance Act · ePrivacy Directive COMPARISON

Data Governance Act vs ePrivacy Directive: Where They Overlap and Conflict

3 overlaps, 1 conflicts and 2 gaps mapped between Data Governance Act and ePrivacy Directive in the Fontvera regulatory corpus.

Summary

Data Governance Act and ePrivacy Directive both apply across European business activity, but they were drafted at different times with different policy goals. This page summarises every article-level crossref between the two in the Fontvera corpus.

3 overlaps mean the same conduct triggers obligations in both regimes — design controls once, document twice. 1 conflicts mean the two regulations push in opposite directions on a specific question. 2 gaps mean one regulation leaves something on a topic the other addresses.

Who this applies to
Compliance teams who need to map a single control framework onto both Data Governance Act and ePrivacy Directive.
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In depth

Summary statistics

Overlaps: 3 · Conflicts: 1 · Gaps: 2

6 article-level crossrefs catalogued between Data Governance Act and ePrivacy Directive from the Fontvera EU regulatory corpus. Article numbers are verbatim from the underlying obligation_crossrefs table; descriptions are extracted, not paraphrased.

All crossrefs between these regulations

Article (A)Article (B)TypeSeverityDescription
Data Governance Act Art 7ePrivacy Directive Art 5overlapmedium[entity affected: Public sector bodies / Competent bodies] Both regulations require entities handling data to implement technical measures that preserve privacy, confidentiality, and integrity, such a
Data Governance Act Art 7ePrivacy Directive Art 9overlapmedium[entity affected: Competent bodies / Service providers] Both regulations mandate mechanisms to obtain consent from data subjects or users for data processing or re-use, ensuring that consent is a prer
Data Governance Act Art 13ePrivacy Directive Art 15overlaplow[entity affected: Data protection authorities / Working Party] Both regulations require cooperation and information exchange between data protection authorities and other relevant sectoral authorities
Data Governance Act Art 4ePrivacy Directive Art 5conflicthigh[entity affected: Public sector bodies] The DGA promotes broad data re-use and transparency for public sector data, while ePrivacy strictly prohibits interception or storage of communications without
Data Governance Act Art ?ePrivacy Directive Art ?gaphigh[entity affected: Data intermediation service providers] Neither regulation explicitly addresses the specific privacy impact assessments required for data intermediaries handling sensitive e-communica
Data Governance Act Art ?ePrivacy Directive Art ?gapmedium[entity affected: Data altruism organisations] While DGA regulates data altruism registration and ePrivacy regulates consent, there is no clear guidance on how data altruism organisations must handle

Conflicts explained

The 1 article-level conflicts between Data Governance Act and ePrivacy Directive mean a control that satisfies one can pull the wrong way on the other:

Which regulation takes precedence

EU law does not lay down a universal precedence rule between Data Governance Act and ePrivacy Directive. In practice three resolution approaches apply: lex specialis (the more specific provision wins when both purport to govern the same conduct); regulator guidance (EDPB, EBA, ESMA and the AI Office have all issued joint readings on overlapping articles — check the most recent applicable opinion); and document the choice (when the regulations leave the call to the controller, the audit defence is your written reasoning, not the regulator's silence). Where the corpus surfaces a conflict rather than an overlap, treat that as an escalation path to legal — not a control-design question.

What this means for your compliance team

Treat the 3 overlaps as design opportunities — one control, two regulatory anchors. Treat the 1 conflicts as escalation paths to legal: the regulations themselves don't resolve them, you do, and you document the reasoning. The 2 gaps point at scenarios where one regulation is silent while the other speaks — assume the regulator who has the explicit rule will win.

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§ What Fontvera found

Documents in our corpus

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