Amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers' regulations No.553

The draft regulation “Amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers’ September 6, 2022 regulations No. 553 ‘Requirements for the administrator of the top-level domain “.lv” and electronic numbering system registry and the procedure for its recognition’” (24-TA-1834) has been submitted for public participation on the TAP portal until August 28, 2024 (read)

In Latvia, the Cabinet of Ministers regulation will be important to industry, as it will implement Article 28 of the NIS2 Directive. The regulation will establish the obligations of top-level domain registry operators and domain name registration service providers:

• to collect certain categories of data and guarantee their integrity and availability,
  
• to develop policies and procedures for the accurate and complete collection and maintenance of domain name registration data, as well as for the prevention and correction of inaccurate registration data in accordance with data protection laws,
  
• to adopt and implement reasonable procedures for domain name registration data verification,
  
• to make publicly available domain name registration data that are not personal data,
  
• to ensure legitimate access requestors’ access to registration data and timely accessibility,
  
• to cooperate to avoid multiple data collection.