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Recital 66

Recital 66

Health data access bodies should ensure that secondary use is transparent by providing public information about the data permits granted and their justifications, the measures taken to protect the rights of natural persons, the means for natural persons to exercise their rights in relation to secondary use, and the outcomes of secondary use including through links to scientific publications. Where appropriate, that information on the outcomes of secondary use should also include a lay summary to be provided by the health data user. Those transparency obligations complement the obligations laid down in Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. The exceptions provided for in Article 14(5) of that Regulation could apply. Where such exceptions do apply, the transparency obligations established in this Regulation should contribute to ensuring fair and transparent processing as referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, for example through providing information on the purpose of the processing and the data categories processed, thereby enabling natural persons to understand whether their data are being made available for secondary use pursuant to data permits.