---
type: Right
title: "You can send it to anyone — even their competitor."
description: "Point at a third party; the vendor must deliver your data to them on the same terms."
tags: ["right", "eu-data-act"]
instrument: eu-data-act
articles: [5, 6]
applies_from: 2025-09-12
attaches_to: ["cloud", "third-party", "web-client"]
pairs_with: ["gdpr"]
legal_review: none
# Dated phases, for the rulebook's time axis. Every date is one of the
# Act's milestones; verify checks it.
phases:
  - { date: 2025-09-12, what: "Applies" }
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"
  - id: prototype
    resource: "https://github.com/DavidJCrawford/stewardship-explorer/blob/main/src/data/rights.json"
    title: "stewardship-explorer rights.json"
---

# The right

**You can send it to anyone — even their competitor.** Point at a third party; the vendor must deliver your data to them on the same terms.

A rival analytics platform, an energy optimiser, your own consultant: you designate, they receive. The receiving party carries duties too — purpose-bound use, no cloning the product it came from.[^eli]

# The law behind it

[Article 5](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-05.md), [Article 6](/law/eu-data-act/articles/article-06.md). Applies from 2025-09-12.

# Where it lives in the building

[cloud](/building/components/cloud.md), [third-party](/building/components/third-party.md), [web-client](/building/components/web-client.md)

# The wider rulebook

[gdpr](/law/wider-rulebook/gdpr.md)

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