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Data Act — Regulation (EU) 2023/2854

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Overview

This Regulation establishes harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data generated by connected products and related services, facilitates switching between data processing services, introduces safeguards against unlawful third-party access to non-personal data, and promotes interoperability standards. (Art. 1 Art. 4)

It applies to manufacturers of connected products and providers of related services, users and data holders, data recipients, public sector bodies requesting data in exceptional needs, providers of data processing services, and smart contract participants in the Union. (Art. 1 Art. 3)

Key points

  • Manufacturers and designers must ensure that connected products and related services allow users to easily, securely, and freely access product and related service data by default. (Art. 3)
  • Data holders must make readily available data accessible to users and, upon request, to third parties under fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory, and transparent conditions. (Art. 4 Art. 5 Art. 8)
  • Unfair contractual terms regarding data access and use unilaterally imposed on an enterprise are not binding on that enterprise. (Art. 13)
  • Public sector bodies, the Commission, the European Central Bank, and Union bodies may request data holders to make data available where there is an exceptional need to carry out a specific public interest task. (Art. 14 Art. 15)
  • Providers of data processing services must remove obstacles to effective switching, eliminate switching charges progressively by 2027, and ensure functional equivalence. (Art. 23 Art. 29 Art. 30)

Structure

The Regulation is organised into eleven chapters covering general provisions, business-to-consumer and business-to-business data sharing, obligations for data holders under Union law, unfair contractual terms, data access for public bodies under exceptional needs, switching between data processing services, unlawful international governmental access, interoperability, implementation and enforcement, sui generis database rights, and final provisions.

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Articles

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