Requesting data sharing

Prerequisites

Before you request data sharing you must complete the following:

  1. Understand the risks of data sharing, see Data sharing risks.
  2. Understand what you want to achieve, see Planning for data sharing.
  3. Decide which data sharing subscription you need, see Data sharing subscriptions.
  4. A Data Interchange system set up, see Data Interchange.
  5. Data Subscriptions set up, see Data Subscription.

Request process

After completing the Prerequisites, participants formally request pre-production data sharing by:

Production implementation requires a separate letterhead and agreement between all parties.

  1. Copying the content of the relevant template into your company's letterhead, see Data sharing request templates.
  • Participant companies with the same ABN for all participant IDs only need a single request from the company registered for their participant IDs.
  • If there are two (or more) companies (that is, having different ABNs), each company must provide a request to AEMO's Support Hub, on their respective company letterhead. It must be signed at senior management level and detail their specific circumstances. Below is an example of the authorisation required.
  • Nominating a business contact with the authority to request or authorise the sharing of private data from one business entity to another.
  • Nominating a technical contact to implement data sharing at the participant ID site.
  • Nominating the earliest date for implementation in pre-production.

AEMO process

After confirming full agreement by all affected parties, on or after the requested implementation date, AEMO processes the data sharing request into pre-production and advises the requester.