---
type: Statutory Article
title: "Article 5 — Right of the user to share data with third parties"
description: "Your data goes wherever you point — including to the vendor's competitor. Lock-in by possession is repealed; being worth choosing is what remains."
resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
tags: ["eu-data-act", "chapter-ii", "sharing"]
instrument: eu-data-act
article: 5
chapter: "II"
binds: ["data-holder", "user", "third-party"]
applies_from: 2025-09-12
cross_refs: [4, 6, 8]
attaches_to: ["cloud", "cloud-ai", "meter", "third-party", "web-client"]
legal_review: none
generated: { by: claude-code/opus-5.5, at: "2026-10-09T00:00:00Z" }
status: draft
sources:
  - id: eli
    resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
    title: "Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, Official Journal"
  - id: prototype
    resource: "https://github.com/DavidJCrawford/stewardship-explorer/blob/main/src/data/act.json"
    title: "stewardship-explorer act.json (author's summaries, July 2026)"
---

# Precise reading

On the user's request (or a party acting on their behalf), the data holder must make readily available data available to a third party the user designates — same terms as Art. 4 (without undue delay, same quality, machine-readable, continuous/real-time where applicable). Gatekeeper platforms (DMA) are not eligible third parties.[^eli]

*A faithful summary of the operative demand, not the statutory text.*

# Plain reading

Your data goes wherever you point — including to the vendor's competitor. Lock-in by possession is repealed; being worth choosing is what remains.

*Paraphrase.*

# Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter | II — [Business to Consumer and Business to Business Data Sharing](/law/eu-data-act/chapters.md) |
| Binds | [Data Holder](/law/eu-data-act/actors.md), [User](/law/eu-data-act/actors.md), [Third Party / Data Recipient](/law/eu-data-act/actors.md) |
| Applies from | 2025-09-12 |
| Cross-references | [Article 4](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-04.md), [Article 6](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-06.md), [Article 8](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-08.md) |
| Where it attaches in the building | [cloud](/building/components/cloud.md), [cloud-ai](/building/components/cloud-ai.md), [meter](/building/components/meter.md), [third-party](/building/components/third-party.md), [web-client](/building/components/web-client.md) |

# Rights that rest on it

- [You can send it to anyone — even their competitor.](/rights/share.md)

[^eli]: Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, Official Journal