Editorial policy: EU Data Act Guide

National acts add only the competent authority, the data coordinator and the penalty rules, because the Regulation is directly applicable.

The policy covers five areas: editorial independence, requests to independent providers, what the guide publishes, sources and outbound links, and corrections. How the EU Data Act itself is structured is explained on the home page.

Editorial Independence

The EU Data Act Guide Editorial Team decides alone what every page says, and no provider, law firm, platform or other company has a say in the content, its order or its wording. The publisher is eudataact.net, every page carries the byline of the editorial team, and no person or company is named as author.

No company, whether provider, vendor, consultancy or law firm, is named, ranked or recommended anywhere on the site. Prices appear only as dated public-record ranges or as the factors that shape a quote, never as a current price.

No Paid Placement, Rankings or Sponsored Content

No page on eudataact.net is for sale: providers cannot buy a place, a mention, a ranking, a link or a sponsored article. The site has no provider directories, no lists of top providers and no endorsement labels, and no page praises a provider. Whether a provider receives requests has no effect on what any page says.

How Requests to Independent Providers Work

When a reader fills in a provider match form, we pass the request to independent providers who work on the Data Act, such as lawyers and consultants, data-access and data-sharing platforms, and cloud contract and switching services. The form promises exactly this: "Describe what you need and we pass your request to independent providers who work on the Data Act." Requests and editorial content run in separate lanes.

The form promises no response time, no number of offers, no legal advice and no compliance result. The provider handles the request; the editorial team takes no part in the exchange. Form data is kept for 24 months, as the privacy page explains.

When a Provider Asks for a Listing, a Link or a Change

We decline every request from a provider to be listed, named, linked, ranked or described on the site, whatever is offered in return. A provider that receives requests is never shown to readers by name.

A provider that reports a factual error is treated like any other reader: the claim is checked against the primary source, and the page changes only if the official text supports it. A request to change how a provider's own product is described is declined, because the guide describes no product.

What the Guide Publishes and What It Leaves Out

We publish what the Data Act, its Commission guidance and the national implementation acts require, for whom and from when, and we leave out anything we cannot trace to an official source. Every status carries its date and stage: the Regulation entered into force on 11 January 2024 and has applied since 12 September 2025. Pending or draft instruments are always called pending or draft, with the issuing body and the date, and every national status is written "as of" its check date.

How Data Act instruments are written, as of 5 November 2026

The guide explains what the law requires but never tells a named organisation that it is or is not in scope, and nothing on it is legal advice. Commission guidance is labelled as non-binding wherever a page relies on it. The Commission FAQ, the other guidance documents and the Legal Helpdesk are covered in official Data Act guidance.

Sources, Citations and Outbound Links

Every legal statement on eudataact.net rests on a primary source, cited by its issuing body: EUR-Lex and the Official Journal for EU law, the Commission for its guidance, and the national gazette or competent authority for national law. Articles are cited exactly as the Regulation numbers them, for example Article 25(2)(a), and the act is always Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 of 13 December 2023.

Outbound links are followed only to the primary sources in the table. Every other external link, for example to a law firm, vendor, consultancy or news site, carries nofollow and never replaces a primary source as the basis of a legal statement.

External sources and how eudataact.net links them

The checking process is described on the methodology page, and the text and structure of the Act are set out under Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, the official text.

Corrections and Updates

When an official source changes or shows that a page is wrong, we correct the page to the official value and update its check date. A newer official source always wins over anything written before. A corrigendum in the Official Journal corrects the text; it does not amend the Regulation. Where an official document misprints a reference, as the Commission FAQ version 1.4 does with the act number, the page keeps the Official Journal value.

Pages are re-checked when one of five triggers occurs:

• adoption of the Digital Omnibus;
• an amendment of a national implementation law;
• an update of Commission guidance;
• a new version of the Commission FAQ;
• a step in an infringement procedure.

A pending proposal is rewritten as law only after its adoption is published.

How to Report an Error

Send the page address, the sentence and, where you have it, the official source to editorial@eudataact.net. Every report is checked against the primary source, whoever sends it. Other ways to reach the team are on the contact page.

What This Policy Does Not Cover

This page covers editorial decisions only; four other pages cover who runs the guide, how facts are checked, contact and personal data:

• About the EU Data Act Guide: who runs the guide
• Methodology and fact-checking: how facts are checked
• Contact: how to reach the team
• Privacy: form data and its retention