cbg-meb.nl

Context

www.cbg-meb.nl is the website of the Medicines Evaluation Board of the Netherlands (College ter Beoordeling van Geneesmiddelen / Medicines Evaluation Board). The data controller is CBG-MEB, a government body. The site is informational: information on medicines, their evaluation, and registration.

Scan: 40 requests to 3 domains, homepage, captured in a clean Edge browser without a VPN or ad blocker. The site runs on the government platform Platform Rijksoverheid Online and uses its centralized web statistics.

Who receives the data

There are no third-party recipients.

The only external service is the Dutch government’s centralized web-statistics platform, built on Piwik PRO. It is configured anonymously: the IP address is anonymized, and there is no link to identity. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no advertising networks, no social media pixels, no session recording, and no third-party trackers.

Was there a consent banner

A full consent banner is not required here. The statistics tool is configured as anonymized and, under the rules, is exempt from consent: it does not intrude on privacy, does not set tracking cookies, and does not link data to identity. Not a single cookie was set during the entire session.

The policy explicitly states this: Piwik PRO is used for web statistics in anonymous mode, visitor-behavior research is conducted anonymously, and cookies that don’t intrude on privacy do not require consent.

What fires before consent

Only anonymized government statistics. Before any interaction, a single external service fires — the government’s centralized web-statistics platform, in anonymous mode and without tracking cookies. The scan contains no Google analytics, no advertising domains, no social plugins, and no session recording.

Conclusion

Cbg-meb.nl is a model of how a government site should be set up. The only external service is the Dutch government’s centralized web-statistics platform, configured anonymously: with IP anonymization and no link to identity. There is no third-party advertising, no Google analytics, no social media pixels, and no session recording whatsoever, and no cookies are set. The key takeaway for the reader: a government institution, particularly a healthcare regulator, can manage perfectly well with anonymized government statistics alone, and here that is achieved without a single third-party tracker. The correctness of this setup is also confirmed by the policy, which describes the statistics as anonymous and exempt from consent. No violations were recorded.