The Data Act has applied since 12 September 2025: users can demand access to connected-product data, B2B sharing terms face fairness rules, and cloud customers hold switching rights.
What changed
Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (the Data Act) entered into force on 11 January 2024 and has applied since 12 September 2025. It gives users — consumers and businesses — the right to access the data produced through their use of connected products and related services, enables business users in sectors such as manufacturing and agriculture to access performance data from industrial equipment, sets safeguards and fairness rules for data-sharing contracts, and establishes the framework for customers to switch effectively between data-processing (cloud) services. The Commission has announced guidance on reasonable compensation for mandatory business-to-business data sharing.
Why it matters
The Data Act's rights are exercisable now: a customer can invoke data access or cloud-switching provisions today, and a contract term that fails the fairness rules does not become safer by predating awareness of them. For product and cloud businesses this is a live contractual and operational exposure, not a future deadline.
Who is affected
Manufacturers of connected products and providers of related services (data-access duties), data holders negotiating B2B sharing terms, and data-processing service providers (switching and contract obligations) — with legal teams owning the repapering and product teams the access mechanics.
Roleslegal teamscompliance teamsproduct leadsprocurement teams
Organisationsmanufacturers of connected productsdata holderscloud providersdata recipients
What to check next
- Confirm you can operationally answer a user's data-access request for your connected products and related services
- Review B2B data-sharing contracts against the Data Act's fairness and safeguard provisions
- Check cloud contracts — as customer and as provider — against the switching and exit requirements
- Identify which datasets from your products count as in-scope product or related-service data
- Document how access requests, refusals and compensation are handled
Key dates
- 2024-01-11Entry into force
- 2025-09-12Data Act applies
Source. EUR-Lex — Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act) ↗
Document: Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 — CELEX 32023R2854
Verified by Trusq against this source on 4 Jul 2026. Trusq publishes only what it can trace to an official source; the source text prevails. Not legal advice.
Document: Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 — CELEX 32023R2854
Verified by Trusq against this source on 4 Jul 2026. Trusq publishes only what it can trace to an official source; the source text prevails. Not legal advice.