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(a)

manufacturers of connected products placed on the market in the Union and providers of related services, irrespective of the place of establishment of those manufacturers and providers;

(b)

users in the Union of connected products or related services as referred to in point (a);

(c)

data holders, irrespective of their place of establishment, that make data available to data recipients in the Union;

(d)

data recipients in the Union to whom data are made available;

(e)

public sector bodies, the Commission, the European Central Bank and Union bodies that request data holders to make data available where there is an exceptional need for those data for the performance of a specific task carried out in the public interest and to the data holders that provide those data in response to such request;

(f)

providers of data processing services, irrespective of their place of establishment, providing such services to customers in the Union;

(g)

participants in data spaces and vendors of applications using smart contracts and persons whose trade, business or profession involves the deployment of smart contracts for others in the context of executing an agreement.