---
type: Statutory Article
title: "Article 14 — Obligation to make data available on the basis of an exceptional need"
description: "The state can ask — but only through the narrow gate of exceptional need, defined next door."
resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
tags: ["eu-data-act", "chapter-v", "public-sector"]
instrument: eu-data-act
article: 14
chapter: "V"
binds: ["data-holder", "public-body"]
applies_from: 2025-09-12
cross_refs: [15, 17]
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

Data holders (other than small/micro enterprises) must make data available to public sector bodies, the Commission, the ECB or Union bodies that demonstrate an exceptional need to use it.[^eli]

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

# Plain reading

The state can ask — but only through the narrow gate of exceptional need, defined next door.

*Paraphrase.*

# Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter | V — [Making Data Available to Public Sector Bodies, the Commission, the ECB and Union Bodies on the Basis of an Exceptional Need](/law/eu-data-act/chapters.md) |
| Binds | [Data Holder](/law/eu-data-act/actors.md), [Public Sector Body](/law/eu-data-act/actors.md) |
| Applies from | 2025-09-12 |
| Cross-references | [Article 15](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-15.md), [Article 17](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-17.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