Article 1 Subject matter and scope
Article 1 Subject matter and scope 1. This Regulation lays down harmonised rules on making on: (a) the design of connected products to allow access to data generated by the use of a connected product or generated during the provision of related service available services to the user of that product; (b) data holders making available data they accessed from a connected product or service, on generated during the making data available by provision of a related service to data holders subjects, users or to data recipients, and on at the making request of the user or data subject; (c) fair contractual terms for data sharing agreements; (d) the making available by of data holders to public sector bodies or Union institutions, agencies or bodies, where there is an exceptional need, need in the public interest; (e) facilitating switching between data processing services; (f) introducing safeguards against unlawful international governmental access to non-personal data; and (g) providing for the performance development of a task carried out interoperability standards and common specifications for data to be transferred and used. 1a. This Regulation covers personal and non-personal data, including the following types of data or in the public interest: 2 following contexts: (a) Chapter II applies to accessible data obtained, collected or otherwise generated by connected products or generated during the provision of related services; (b) Chapter III applies to any private sector data subject to statutory data sharing obligations; (c) Chapter IV applies to any private sector data accessed and used on the basis of contractual agreements between businesses; (d) Chapter V applies to any private sector non-personal data; (e) Chapter VI applies to any data and services processed by data processing services; (f) Chapter VII applies to any non-personal data held in the Union by providers of data processing services. 2. This Regulation applies to: (a) manufacturers of connected products and suppliers providers of related services placed on the market in the Union irrespective of their place of establishment and the users of such connected products or services; related services or in the case of personal data, identified or identifiable natural persons the data obtained, collected, or generated by the use, relates to ; (b) users of connected products or related services in the Union and data holders , irrespective of their place of establishment, that make data available to data recipients in the Union; Union or in the case of personal data, identified or identifiable natural persons the data obtained, collected, or generated by the use, relates to ; (c) data recipients in the Union to whom data are made available; (d) public sector bodies of a Member State and Union institutions, agencies or bodies that request data holders to make data available where there is an exceptional need to that data for the performance of a specific task carried out in the public interest and the data holders that provide those data in response to such request; (e) providers of data processing services , irrespective of their place of establishment, offering such services to customers in the Union. 3 3. Union law on the protection of personal data, privacy and confidentiality of communications and integrity of terminal equipment shall apply to any personal data processed in connection with the rights and obligations laid down in this Regulation. The obtaining, collection, or generation of personal data through the use of a product or related service shall require a legal basis pursuant to applicable data protection law. This Regulation shall does not affect constitute a legal basis for the applicability processing of personal data. This Regulation is without prejudice to Union law on the protection of personal data, data and privacy , in particular Regulation (EU) 2016/679 , Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, and Directive 2002/58/EC, including the rules concerning the powers and competences of supervisory authorities. In the event of a conflict between this Regulation and Union law on the protection of personal data or privacy or national law adopted in accordance with such Union law, the relevant Union or national law on the protection of personal data or privacy shall prevail. Insofar as the rights laid down in Chapter II of this Regulation are concerned, and where users are the data subjects of personal data data, subject to the rights and obligations under that Chapter, the provisions of this Regulation shall complement and particularise the right of data portability under Article 20 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. 4 No provision of this Regulation shall be applied or interpreted in such a way as to diminish or limit the right to the protection of personal data or the right to privacy and confidentiality of communications. 4. This Regulation shall not affect Union and national legal acts providing for the sharing, access and use of data for the purpose of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal or administrative offences or the execution of criminal or administrative penalties, including Regulation (EU) 2021/784 of the European Parliament and of the Council (29) and the [e-evidence proposals [COM(2018) 225 and 226] once adopted, and international cooperation in that area. This Regulation shall not affect the collection, sharing, access to and use of data under Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing and Regulation (EU) 2015/847 of the European Parliament and of the Council on information accompanying the transfer of funds. This Regulation shall not affect the competences of the Member States regarding activities concerning public security, defence, national security, customs and tax administration and the public health and the safety of citizens in accordance with Union law. This Regulation shall not apply to data collected or generated in the context of defence-related activities or by defence products or services or by products or services deployed and used for defence purposes. 4a. This Regulation complements and does not affect the applicability of Union law aiming to promote the interests of consumers and to ensure a high level of consumer protection, to protect their health, safety and economic interests, including Directives 2005/29/EC, 2011/83/EU and 93/13/EEC. 4b. Data holders shall not be obliged to provide access to data to any natural or legal person, entity or body outside the Union, unless requested by the user or otherwise provided by the Union law or national law implementing the Union law. 4c. The obligations set out in the Regulation shall not preclude voluntary lawful reciprocal non personal data sharing between users, data holders and data recipients, agreed in contracts.