Article 9 — Compensation for making data available
Digital & dataLevel 1RegulationData ActApplies from 12 Sep 2025Official source
1.Any compensation agreed upon between a data holder and a data recipient for making data available in business-to-business relations shall be non- discriminatory and reasonable and may include a margin.
2.When agreeing on any compensation, the data holder and the data recipient shall take into account in particular:
3.The compensation referred to in paragraph 1 may also depend on the volume, format and nature of the data.
4.Where the data recipient is an SME or a not-for-profit research organisation and where such a data recipient does not have partner enterprises or linked enterprises that do not qualify as SMEs, any compensation agreed shall not exceed the costs referred to in paragraph 2, point (a).
5.The Commission shall adopt guidelines on the calculation of reasonable compensation, taking into account the advice of the European Data Innovation Board (EDIB) referred to in Article 42.
Chapter III — Obligations for data holders obliged by Union law to make data available
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