---
type: Statutory Article
title: "Article 7 — Scope of business-to-consumer and business-to-business data sharing obligations"
description: "The duties scale with the size of the party holding the data — and cannot be waived in the fine print."
resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
tags: ["eu-data-act", "chapter-ii", "scope"]
instrument: eu-data-act
article: 7
chapter: "II"
binds: []
applies_from: 2025-09-12
cross_refs: [3, 4, 5, 6]
attaches_to: []
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

Carves the Ch. II obligations' scope: micro/small enterprises are exempt (with anti-circumvention conditions); medium-sized enterprises get transitional accommodation; obligations cannot be contracted away to the user's detriment.[^eli]

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

# Plain reading

The duties scale with the size of the party holding the data — and cannot be waived in the fine print.

*Paraphrase.*

# Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter | II — [Business to Consumer and Business to Business Data Sharing](/law/eu-data-act/chapters.md) |
| Binds | No party directly; structural. |
| Applies from | 2025-09-12 |
| Cross-references | [Article 3](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-03.md), [Article 4](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-04.md), [Article 5](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-05.md), [Article 6](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-06.md) |
| Where it attaches in the building | Nowhere in the building directly. |

# Rights that rest on it

- None of the seven rights rests on this article directly.

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