---
type: Statutory Article
title: "Article 50 — Entry into force and application"
description: "The clock: live since September 2025, design duties from September 2026, charge-free switching from January 2027 (Art. 29), and the fine print of old contracts caught from September 2027."
resource: "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng"
tags: ["eu-data-act", "chapter-xi", "final", "scope"]
instrument: eu-data-act
article: 50
chapter: "XI"
binds: []
applies_from: 2024-01-11
cross_refs: [3, 12, 13, 29]
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

In force 11 January 2024; applies from 12 September 2025. Art. 3(1) applies to connected products and related services placed on the market after 12 September 2026. Ch. III applies to sharing obligations entering into force after 12 September 2025. Ch. IV applies to contracts concluded after 12 September 2025, and from 12 September 2027 also to qualifying earlier contracts (indefinite duration, or expiring ≥10 years from 11 January 2024).[^eli]

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

# Plain reading

The clock: live since September 2025, design duties from September 2026, charge-free switching from January 2027 (Art. 29), and the fine print of old contracts caught from September 2027.

*Paraphrase.*

# Facts

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter | XI — [Final Provisions](/law/eu-data-act/chapters.md) |
| Binds | No party directly; structural. |
| Applies from | 2024-01-11 |
| Cross-references | [Article 3](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-03.md), [Article 12](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-12.md), [Article 13](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-13.md), [Article 29](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-29.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