Article 135 · Public Procurement Data Space

1.The Public Procurement Data Space (the ‘PPDS’) established by the Commission and built on the eProcurement ontology and the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets (FAIR) principles, shall be a central repository of procurement information originating from all NPPDS for the monitoring of public procurement procedures and contracts at Union level.

2.Member States shall provide procurement information available through the NPPDS to the PPDS within ten days from availability of the procurement information pursuant to Article 134. The procurement information shall be considered to be received only once it has been validated according to the technical validation requirements set up by the Union. To this end, the NPPDS shall receive a confirmation of the validation. The procurement information shall remain available to the PPDS at least ten years from the date it has been made available.

3.The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts specifying the procurement information which shall be provided by the Member States through the PPDS including its technical format, the minimum publication terms for procurement information not designated as publicly available and the source of the technical validation requirements according to paragraph 2. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 143(2).

4.Access to procurement information that is not designated as publicly available shall be restricted to persons having the necessary access rights granted by the Commission. Where a Member State requests access rights for a national public authority to procurement information from another Member State, it shall obtain access rights only once the other Member State approves the access.

5.The Commission may grant access to the PPDS to Union institutions within the meaning of Article 2, point (73) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509, Executive Agencies and Union bodies within the meaning of Articles 68, 69 and 70 of that Regulation, to the European Public Prosecutors Office, to the European Anti-Fraud Office and to the European Central Bank, corresponding to their respective needs and purposes.