---
type: Statutory Article
title: "Article 43 — Databases containing certain data"
description: "A vendor cannot rebuild the possession moat by declaring the event log a 'protected database'. That door is closed by name."
resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
tags: ["eu-data-act", "chapter-x", "ip"]
instrument: eu-data-act
article: 43
chapter: "X"
binds: []
applies_from: 2025-09-12
cross_refs: [4, 5]
attaches_to: ["cloud", "head-end"]
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

The sui generis database right (Directive 96/9/EC) does not apply to databases containing data obtained from or generated by connected products or related services, insofar as it would obstruct users' rights under this Regulation.[^eli]

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

# Plain reading

A vendor cannot rebuild the possession moat by declaring the event log a 'protected database'. That door is closed by name.

*Paraphrase.*

# Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter | X — [Sui Generis Right Under Directive 96/9/EC](/law/eu-data-act/chapters.md) |
| Binds | No party directly; structural. |
| Applies from | 2025-09-12 |
| Cross-references | [Article 4](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-04.md), [Article 5](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-05.md) |
| Where it attaches in the building | [cloud](/building/components/cloud.md), [head-end](/building/components/head-end.md) |

# Rights that rest on it

- [The event log isn't their database — it's your data.](/rights/event-log.md)

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