GDNG (Gesundheitsdatennutzungsgesetz / German Health Data Use Act)

Germany's secondary-use health-data law, set into force in March 2024 and designed to be compatible with the EU's forthcoming European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation once that takes effect. The law's own Federal Law Gazette publication runs six articles; Article 1 contains the nine sections (§1–§9) that make up the GDNG proper.

Matters to this vault as the subject of its first Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) extension capture: Flake, Henke, Kuntz, Löbe, Pandit & Draeger's "Extending the W3C Data Privacy Vocabulary to Cover the German Health Data Use Act" (arXiv:2610.37527, 2026) formalizes 54 GDNG-related terms into a DPV extension, released as a draft with DPV 2.3. The extension's draft status is explicitly tied to one unmodeled GDNG obligation — §8's requirement to register health-data research in a WHO primary-registry network and publish results — rather than general incompleteness. The law's "Paragraph"-based (§) textual structure, rather than the "Article"-based structure DPV's existing IRI convention assumed, forced a new naming scheme in the extension (see claim-gdng-dpv-extension-p-prefixed-iri-scheme-for-german-paragraph-structure).

References

• claim-gdng-set-into-force-march-2024-anticipates-ehds
• claim-gdng-dpv-extension-p-prefixed-iri-scheme-for-german-paragraph-structure
• claim-gdng-dpv-extension-54-terms-draft-with-dpv-2-3-release
• claim-dpvcg-governance-process-for-new-dpv-legal-extensions
• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-10-29-outside-arxiv261037527-extending-the-w3c-data-privacy-vocabulary.md