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Transparency

Last updated: 15 May 2026. This page collects in one place everything a reader needs to audit the independence of eupublicdata: ownership, funding, editorial control, potential conflicts. Some of this is also stated on /about/ and /methodology/; the canonical version lives here.

Ownership

eupublicdata is operated by a single Italian VAT-registered freelancer based in Carpi (MO), Italy. There are no investors, shareholders, parent company or holding entity. There is no editorial board distinct from the operator at the time of writing.

Funding

• Infrastructure costs (domain, Cloudflare Pages tier, database tier) are paid personally by the operator out of pocket. They are in the order of a few hundred euro per year.
• No grants. No EU funding. No member-state funding. No municipal funding.
• No party-political funding. No advocacy-NGO funding. No foundation funding.
• No sponsored content. No paid placement. No native advertising. No affiliate links.
• No advertising network is integrated at this time. If that ever changes — for example, a privacy-respecting display-ad network alongside the editorial layer — a notice will appear here and in the privacy policy before it goes live.

Editorial independence

No source institution (Eurostat, Frontex, EUAA, IOM, UNHCR, OECD, the Commission DGs, the Council, the Parliament, member-state statistical offices) has any role in deciding what eupublicdata publishes, how it presents data, what wording is used or what is omitted. Source institutions are not consulted before publication and have no review rights.

If an institution flags an error, we treat it on the same footing as any other correction request — verified, then published transparently.

Conflicts of interest

The operator declares the following at the time of this version of the page:

• No current consulting engagement with any EU institution, member-state government, or political party.
• No current consulting engagement with any organisation whose activity is covered by eupublicdata (lobby groups, public-affairs firms, trade associations registered in the EU Transparency Register, bidders on TED notices we surface).
• Sibling sites are operated under separate domains (the IT/ES/BR/MX/EU family). They share infrastructure templates with eupublicdata but are editorially independent and commercially separate.

If the operator takes on an engagement that could plausibly be perceived as a conflict, it will be disclosed here, and the affected coverage area will either be paused or annotated with a visible note on the relevant pages until the engagement ends.

AI and automation disclosure

eupublicdata uses automated pipelines to fetch, normalise and bake the dataset of record from public APIs and bulk downloads. Editorial copy — chart titles, headlines, glossary entries, descriptive paragraphs — is drafted with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by a human before publication. Nothing is published autonomously without human sign-off. Dataset values themselves are never generated, inferred or filled by an LLM; they come directly from the named upstream source.

Data collected about visitors

See the privacy policy and cookie policy. The short version: no tracking cookies, no ad networks, no profiling, optional privacy-friendly analytics.