---
type: Statutory Article
title: "Article 6 — Obligations of third parties receiving data at the request of the user"
description: "The receiving party is a steward too: purpose-bound, no onward leakage, no cloning the product it came from."
resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
tags: ["eu-data-act", "chapter-ii", "sharing", "safeguards"]
instrument: eu-data-act
article: 6
chapter: "II"
binds: ["third-party"]
applies_from: 2025-09-12
cross_refs: [5]
attaches_to: ["cloud-ai", "third-party"]
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

Third parties may process received data only for the purposes and under the conditions agreed with the user, must not use it to profile people (save as needed for the service), pass it on without agreement, or use it to develop competing connected products; they must apply agreed protections and delete when required.[^eli]

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

# Plain reading

The receiving party is a steward too: purpose-bound, no onward leakage, no cloning the product it came from.

*Paraphrase.*

# Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter | II — [Business to Consumer and Business to Business Data Sharing](/law/eu-data-act/chapters.md) |
| Binds | [Third Party / Data Recipient](/law/eu-data-act/actors.md) |
| Applies from | 2025-09-12 |
| Cross-references | [Article 5](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-05.md) |
| Where it attaches in the building | [cloud-ai](/building/components/cloud-ai.md), [third-party](/building/components/third-party.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