keyboard_tab Data Act 2023/2854 EN
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- Article 1 Subject matter and scope
- Article 2 Definitions
- Article 3 Obligation to make product data and related service data accessible to the user
- Article 4 The rights and obligations of users and data holders with regard to access, use and making available product data and related service data
- Article 5 Right of the user to share data with third parties
- Article 6 Obligations of third parties receiving data at the request of the user
- Article 7 Scope of business-to-consumer and business-to-business data sharing obligations
- Article 8 Conditions under which data holders make data available to data recipients
- Article 9 Compensation for making data available
- Article 10 Dispute settlement
- Article 11 Technical protection measures on the unauthorised use or disclosure of data
- Article 12 Scope of obligations for data holders obliged pursuant to Union law to make data available
- Article 13 Unfair contractual terms unilaterally imposed on another enterprise
- Article 14 Obligation to make data available on the basis of an exceptional need
- Article 15 Exceptional need to use data
- Article 16 Relationship with other obligations to make data available to public sector bodies, the Commission, the European Central Bank and Union bodies
- Article 17 Requests for data to be made available
- Article 18 Compliance with requests for data
- Article 19 Obligations of public sector bodies, the Commission, the European Central Bank and Union bodies
- Article 20 Compensation in cases of an exceptional need
- Article 21 Sharing of data obtained in the context of an exceptional need with research organisations or statistical bodies
- Article 22 Mutual assistance and cross-border cooperation
- Article 23 Removing obstacles to effective switching
- Article 24 Scope of the technical obligations
- Article 25 Contractual terms concerning switching
- Article 26 Information obligation of providers of data processing services
- Article 27 Obligation of good faith
- Article 28 Contractual transparency obligations on international access and transfer
- Article 29 Gradual withdrawal of switching charges
- Article 30 Technical aspects of switching
- Article 31 Specific regime for certain data processing services
- Article 32 International governmental access and transfer
- Article 33 Essential requirements regarding interoperability of data, of data sharing mechanisms and services, as well as of common European data spaces
- Article 34 Interoperability for the purposes of in-parallel use of data processing services
- Article 35 Interoperability of data processing services
- Article 36 Essential requirements regarding smart contracts for executing data sharing agreements
- Article 37 Competent authorities and data coordinators
- Article 38 Right to lodge a complaint
- Article 39 Right to an effective judicial remedy
- Article 40 Penalties
- Article 41 Model contractual terms and standard contractual clauses
- Article 42 Role of the EDIB
- Article 43 Databases containing certain data
- Article 44 Other Union legal acts governing rights and obligations on data access and use
- Article 45 Exercise of the delegation
- Article 46 Committee procedure
- Article 47 Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2017/2394
- Article 48 Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
- Article 49 Evaluation and review
- Article 50 Entry into force and application
CHAPTER I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER II
BUSINESS TO CONSUMER AND BUSINESS TO BUSINESS DATA SHARING
CHAPTER III
OBLIGATIONS FOR DATA HOLDERS OBLIGED TO MAKE DATA AVAILABLE PURSUANT TO UNION LAW
CHAPTER IV
UNFAIR CONTRACTUAL TERMS RELATED TO DATA ACCESS AND USE BETWEEN ENTERPRISES
CHAPTER V
MAKING DATA AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC SECTOR BODIES, THE COMMISSION, THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK AND UNION BODIES ON THE BASIS OF AN EXCEPTIONAL NEED
CHAPTER VI
SWITCHING BETWEEN DATA PROCESSING SERVICES
CHAPTER VII
UNLAWFUL INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ACCESS AND TRANSFER OF NON-PERSONAL DATA
CHAPTER VIII
INTEROPERABILITY
CHAPTER IX
IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER X
SUI GENERIS RIGHT UNDER DIRECTIVE 96/9/EC
CHAPTER XI
FINAL PROVISIONS
- data
- metadata
- personal data
- non-personal data
- connected product
- related service
- processing
- data processing service
- same service type
- data intermediation service
- data subject
- user
- data holder
- data recipient
- product data
- related service data
- readily available data
- trade secret
- trade secret holder
- profiling
- making available on the market
- placing on the market
- consumer
- enterprise
- small enterprise
- microenterprise
- Union bodies
- public sector body
- public emergency
- customer
- virtual assistants
- digital assets
- on-premises ICT infrastructure
- switching
- data egress charges
- switching charges
- functional equivalence
- exportable data
- smart contract
- interoperability
- common specifications
- harmonised standard
- data 61
- user 24
- shall 24
- holder 21
- article 11
- pursuant 9
- which 8
- holders 8
- paragraph 7
- necessary 6
- relevant 6
- third 6
- confidentiality 6
- measures 6
- connected_product 6
- trade_secrets 6
- access 6
- available 6
- sharing 5
- technical 5
- competent 5
- authority 5
- basis 5
- such 5
- particular 4
- accordance 4
- share 4
- parties 4
- user’s 4
- request 4
- delay 4
- without 4
- undue 4
- from 4
- manner 3
- security 3
- under 3
- choices 3
- requested 3
- only 3
- make 3
- agree 3
- related_service 3
- where 3
- article 3
- referred 3
- economic 3
- dispute 3
- designated 3
- person 3
Article 4
The rights and obligations of users and data holders with regard to access, use and making available product data and related_service data
1. Where data cannot be directly accessed by the user from the connected_product or related_service, data holders shall make readily available data, as well as the relevant meta data necessary to interpret and use those data, accessible to the user without undue delay, of the same quality as is available to the data holder, easily, securely, free of charge, in a comprehensive, structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, where relevant and technically feasible, continuously and in real-time. This shall be done on the basis of a simple request through electronic means where technically feasible.
2. Users and data holders may contractually restrict or prohibit accessing, using or further sharing data, if such processing could undermine security requirements of the connected_product, as laid down by Union or national law, resulting in a serious adverse effect on the health, safety or security of natural persons. Sectoral authorities may provide users and data holders with technical expertise in that context. Where the data holder refuses to share data pursuant to this Article, it shall notify the competent authority designated pursuant to Article 37.
3. Without prejudice to the user’s right to seek redress at any stage before a court or tribunal of a Member State, the user may, in relation to any dispute with the data holder concerning the contractual restrictions or prohibitions referred to in paragraph 2:
| (a) | lodge, in accordance with Article 37(5), point (b), a complaint with the competent authority; or |
| (b) | agree with the data holder to refer the matter to a dispute settlement body in accordance with Article 10(1). |
4. Data holders shall not make the exercise of choices or rights under this Article by the user unduly difficult, including by offering choices to the user in a non-neutral manner or by subverting or impairing the autonomy, decision-making or choices of the user via the structure, design, function or manner of operation of a user digital interface or a part thereof.
5. For the purpose of verifying whether a natural or legal person qualifies as a user for the purposes of paragraph 1, a data holder shall not require that person to provide any information beyond what is necessary. Data holders shall not keep any information, in particular log data, on the user’s access to the data requested beyond what is necessary for the sound execution of the user’s access request and for the security and maintenance of the data infrastructure.
6. Trade secrets shall be preserved and shall be disclosed only where the data holder and the user take all necessary measures prior to the disclosure to preserve their confidentiality in particular regarding third parties. The data holder or, where they are not the same person, the trade_secret holder shall identify the data which are protected as trade_secrets, including in the relevant meta data, and shall agree with the user proportionate technical and organisational measures necessary to preserve the confidentiality of the shared data, in particular in relation to third parties, such as model contractual terms, confidentiality agreements, strict access protocols, technical standards and the application of codes of conduct.
7. Where there is no agreement on the necessary measures referred to in paragraph 6, or if the user fails to implement the measures agreed pursuant to paragraph 6 or undermines the confidentiality of the trade_secrets, the data holder may withhold or, as the case may be, suspend the sharing of data identified as trade_secrets. The decision of the data holder shall be duly substantiated and provided in writing to the user without undue delay. In such cases, the data holder shall notify the competent authority designated pursuant to Article 37 that it has withheld or suspended data sharing and identify which measures have not been agreed or implemented and, where relevant, which trade_secrets have had their confidentiality undermined.
8. In exceptional circumstances, where the data holder who is a trade_secret holder is able to demonstrate that it is highly likely to suffer serious economic damage from the disclosure of trade_secrets, despite the technical and organisational measures taken by the user pursuant to paragraph 6 of this Article, that data holder may refuse on a case-by-case basis a request for access to the specific data in question. That demonstration shall be duly substantiated on the basis of objective elements, in particular the enforceability of trade_secrets protection in third countries, the nature and level of confidentiality of the data requested, and the uniqueness and novelty of the connected_product, and shall be provided in writing to the user without undue delay. Where the data holder refuses to share data pursuant to this paragraph, it shall notify the competent authority designated pursuant to Article 37.
9. Without prejudice to a user’s right to seek redress at any stage before a court or tribunal of a Member State, a user wishing to challenge a data holder’s decision to refuse or to withhold or suspend data sharing pursuant to paragraphs 7 and 8 may:
| (a) | lodge, in accordance with Article 37(5), point (b), a complaint with the competent authority, which shall, without undue delay, decide whether and under which conditions data sharing is to start or resume; or |
| (b) | agree with the data holder to refer the matter to a dispute settlement body in accordance with Article 10(1). |
10. The user shall not use the data obtained pursuant to a request referred to in paragraph 1 to develop a connected_product that competes with the connected_product from which the data originate, nor share the data with a third party with that intent and shall not use such data to derive insights about the economic situation, assets and production methods of the manufacturer or, where applicable the data holder.
11. The user shall not use coercive means or abuse gaps in the technical infrastructure of a data holder which is designed to protect the data in order to obtain access to data.
12. Where the user is not the data subject whose personal data is requested, any personal data generated by the use of a connected_product or related_service shall be made available by the data holder to the user only where there is a valid legal basis for processing under Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and, where relevant, the conditions of Article 9 of that Regulation and of Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC are fulfilled.
13. A data holder shall only use any readily available data that is non-personal data on the basis of a contract with the user. A data holder shall not use such data to derive insights about the economic situation, assets and production methods of, or the use by, the user in any other manner that could undermine the commercial position of that user on the markets in which the user is active.
14. Data holders shall not make available non-personal product data to third parties for commercial or non-commercial purposes other than the fulfilment of their contract with the user. Where relevant, data holders shall contractually bind third parties not to further share data received from them.
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