---
type: Statutory Article
title: "Article 9 — Compensation for making data available"
description: "Data access has a price tag, but a regulated one: cost-based for the small, transparent for everyone."
resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
tags: ["eu-data-act", "chapter-iii", "fairness"]
instrument: eu-data-act
article: 9
chapter: "III"
binds: ["data-holder"]
applies_from: 2025-09-12
cross_refs: [8]
attaches_to: ["cloud"]
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

Compensation agreed between holder and recipient must be non-discriminatory and reasonable, and may include a margin — except toward SMEs and non-profit research, where it may not exceed the cost of making data available. Calculation transparency is required.[^eli]

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

# Plain reading

Data access has a price tag, but a regulated one: cost-based for the small, transparent for everyone.

*Paraphrase.*

# Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter | III — [Obligations for Data Holders Obliged to Make Data Available Pursuant to Union Law](/law/eu-data-act/chapters.md) |
| Binds | [Data Holder](/law/eu-data-act/actors.md) |
| Applies from | 2025-09-12 |
| Cross-references | [Article 8](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-08.md) |
| Where it attaches in the building | [cloud](/building/components/cloud.md) |

# Rights that rest on it

- [Take-it-or-leave-it data clauses can't bind you.](/rights/fair-terms.md)

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