---
type: Statutory Article
title: "Article 32 — International governmental access and transfer"
description: "The sovereignty backstop: your data cannot be quietly reached across borders through your provider."
resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
tags: ["eu-data-act", "chapter-vii", "safeguards"]
instrument: eu-data-act
article: 32
chapter: "VII"
binds: ["dps-provider"]
applies_from: 2025-09-12
cross_refs: [28]
attaches_to: ["cloud", "cloud-ai"]
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

Providers must take all reasonable measures (technical, organisational, legal) to prevent international governmental access/transfer of non-personal data held in the EU that would conflict with Union or national law; foreign judgments/decisions are enforceable only via international agreements or narrow conditions, with minimisation and notification duties.[^eli]

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

# Plain reading

The sovereignty backstop: your data cannot be quietly reached across borders through your provider.

*Paraphrase.*

# Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter | VII — [Unlawful International Governmental Access and Transfer of Non-Personal Data](/law/eu-data-act/chapters.md) |
| Binds | [Data Processing Service Provider](/law/eu-data-act/actors.md) |
| Applies from | 2025-09-12 |
| Cross-references | [Article 28](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-28.md) |
| Where it attaches in the building | [cloud](/building/components/cloud.md), [cloud-ai](/building/components/cloud-ai.md) |

# Rights that rest on it

- [Your data can't be quietly reached across borders.](/rights/borders.md)

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