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Technical audit · 16.06.2026

cbg-meb.nl

Website of the Medicines Evaluation Board of the Netherlands
NL

Cbg-meb.nl is the website of the Medicines Evaluation Board of the Netherlands (the government medicines regulator). Homepage scan: 40 requests total, 3 domains. This is an exemplary, restrained government site. The only external contact is the Dutch government's centralized web-statistics platform, built on Piwik PRO in anonymized mode: with IP-address anonymization and no link to identity. The scan shows no Google Analytics, no Facebook, no advertising, no session recording, and no third-party trackers. Not a single cookie was set during the session. The policy explicitly describes the statistics as anonymous and privacy-non-intrusive, and therefore exempt from consent. No violations were recorded.

Request timeline

1273 ms · government web statistics
The Dutch government's centralized web-statistics platform loads, built on Piwik PRO. This is the only external service on the site.
1672 ms · pageview sent
The statistics tool sends pageview data. The request goes out without parameters tied to a visitor identifier, consistent with the stated anonymized mode.
statistics anonymized, no cookie set
The statistics tool is configured as anonymized: IP is anonymized, and there is no link to identity. Under the rules, such statistics are exempt from consent. Not a single cookie was set during the session.

Declared versus actual

✓ Government statistics (Piwik PRO) — declared

Detected trackers

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.

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.

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.

Evidence

How to verify: download the file and compute its checksum — sha256sum file.har (Linux, macOS) or certutil -hashfile file.har SHA256 (Windows); it must match the one shown. The conclusions apply to the scope of this measurement — see the limitations of the method.

Original (audit)
HAR file: nl/cbg-meb-nl-2026-06-16.har
SHA-256: bf78cd843d1002d42785fd506f95fa3ed3d9e4fb36f63516530f97fb92d1eed1
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.
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I request access to my personal data processed in connection with the website cbg-meb.nl.

1. Categories of data and purposes of processing (Art. 15(1)(a)-(c))
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2. Recipients, retention periods, and transfers outside the EEA (Art. 15(1)(c)-(d), 46)
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