CFAs: Digital Solutions Program for Regulatory Compliance through Data

Deadline: 2-Sep-25

The European Commission (EC) is accepting applications for the Digital Solutions Program for Regulatory Compliance through Data.

Objectives

• This objective will support projects testing digital solutions for transmitting information relevant for compliance with EU legislation (e.g. regulations on environmental issues) and automate the compliance process for several use cases. These projects will target regulatory reporting requirements, from aggregate data (e.g., company balance sheets) to detailed data (e.g., transactions, events, and product registrations). The aim is to leverage advanced technologies, including data capturing technologies, automatic transmission, analysis, cloud storage, and encryption, to ensure data security, confidentiality, and regulatory compliance. The strong focus should be given to privacy preserving technologies to ensure trust between the reporting entity and regulatory authorities, safeguarding data confidentiality while enabling secure and efficient compliance processes.
• Additionally, the projects will identify burdensome administrative challenges in the selected sectors that could be addressed by automated data-driven solutions, while close collaboration with reporting entities will be essential to enable direct communication with regulatory agencies for automated updates and ensure compliance with evolving regulations.

Scope

• The activities funded under this initiative will focus on the following aspects:
  • Technical aspects:
    • Utilize advanced technologies such as privacy-preserving technologies, data capturing technologies, automatic transmission and analysis, cloud storage and encryption for data security and compliance with regulations.
    • Implement comprehensive APIs to enable real-time compliance and self-compliance checks.
    • Employ machine learning algorithms for automated monitoring and reporting.
    • Where possible use precisely defined concepts available in the data catalogue entries of Common European Data Spaces enabling deterministic data collection.
    • Establish direct communication channels with regulatory authorities for automated updates and reporting, keeping the system updated with changing regulations (e.g. by expressing the reporting requirements in machine readable and executable way).
    • Ensure robust access control and maintain audit trails for transparency and accountability.
    • The list of selected sectors with significant administrative burden:
      • agriculture,
      • environment,
      • manufacturing,
      • healthcare,
      • energy, and
      • construction

Funding Information

• EUR 8 000 000

Outcomes and Deliverables 

• The objective is to deliver three to four projects that demonstrate the streamlining of regulatory reporting through automated and trusted sharing of compliance data. Each project will address the governance, technical, legal, and processing aspects of the solution.

Targeted Stakeholders

• National and EU authorities (as data users)/regulatory agencies public and private entities, businesses, farmers, etc/providers of compliance data (data holders), data sharing organisations, universities.

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
  • be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
    • non-EU countries (except for topics with restrictions)
    • listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation).
• Please note however that following topic is subject to restrictions due to security reasons:
  • DIGITAL-2025-AI-SUPPLY-08-Apply AI: GenAI for the public administrations
  • Only the following countries are eligible: EU Member States, EEA countries (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and Switzerland.
  • Entities must not be directly or indirectly controlled from a country that is not an eligible country unless the granting authority agrees to allow for exceptional participation on the basis of a guarantee.

For more information, visit EC.