EU negotiators reached a provisional Data Act deal on 27 June, covering access to connected-device data, fairer sharing contracts and compensation. The Council’s announcement tied public-sector access to exceptional need, including floods and wildfires.
Photo: European flags. © Håkan Dahlström, Spain, 2010 (CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons). Resized and cropped. Historical EU illustration, not the Data Act negotiations.
The deal still needs endorsement, then formal adoption after legal-linguistic revision. It also clarifies how it relates to GDPR and the Data Governance Act.
Two barriers to using data
Parliament’s 28 June explanation connects access to connected-device data with new services, including AI, and cheaper repairs. It separately describes cloud switching designed to keep customers from being locked into a provider. Parliament also described safeguards against unlawful international data transfers by cloud providers.
These address different practical problems: access to useful information and the freedom to move processing elsewhere. A repair service needs relevant device data; a cloud customer needs a workable exit from an existing supplier.
Parliament also described trade-secret safeguards against competitors reverse-engineering devices or services. Developers considering new AI services would therefore need to establish which device data they could access and under what conditions.
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