Data License Agreement Because of the New Data Act

On 12 September 2025, a new regulation (EU) 2023/854 (the “Data Act”) enters into force with harmonised rules on the access to and use of data from connected products such as Scania’s vehicles and power solutions units. 

The Data Act in brief

The Data Act, once in force, will apply within the EU only. Its main impact will be three-fold. 

Firstly, customers shall be entitled to access from the manufacturers of connected products certain categories of data (typically raw, non-enriched data) which is generated by their own such products and provided also that the data is available to the manufacturers.

Secondly, such access shall also be given to third parties that customers have engaged to provide services to them, to the extent that data access is required for purposes of those services. 

Thirdly, manufacturers are entitled to collect and use non-personal data from connected products for their own purposes (such as for product development) only on basis of a contract with the customer.

The Data Act applies to any customer that owns, leases, or hires a connected Scania product, and to manufacturers as well as any other entities that have the right or obligation under the Data Act to use and make available data from connected products.

Another critical aspect of the Data Act is that manufacturers, lessors and other so-called “data holders” must provide information to customers so as to explain the data capabilities of connected products and do so before these are sold or leased to the customers. Information must also be given as to where and how customers will be able to access their data from the products. Such pre-contractual information will be communicated separately by Scania.

Scania’s need of a data license agreement for the EU

Scania as well as its affiliates and business partners rely on availability to data from connected Scania products for a multitude of different internal purposes, such as research around product technology, development of new and improved products or functionality, improvement of quality and environmental friendliness in Scania products, promotion of new Scania products and services, and much more. As set out above, Scania therefore needs a contract with you in order to collect and use your data for the carrying out of such activities. The further details around categories of data concerned, the various Scania use cases and which Scania group entities we wish to cover as well as other terms and conditions follow from our comprehensive EU Data License Agreement, which Scania invites you to accept.

Note that it is important for you to make an active choice. If Scania has no input on this and fail to reach you separately, we will have to stop our internal processing and may also have to limit the provision of services to you. See more on this below.

Your own data access (including for your designated service providers) will be enabled before entry-into-force of the Data Act in September. You will separately receive more information around this. 

What happens if there is no EU Data License Agreement?

If you do not wish to enter into Scania’s EU Data License Agreement and thereby disapprove Scania’s collection and use of non-personal data from your connected Scania product for Scania’s own internal purposes, then this may in Scania’s view have several negative implications not only for us but also for you as customer. Namely:
 

1. As there are certain dependencies on data availability for development purposes in the provision of certain services to our customers, Scania may need to revise its portfolio of current connectivity as well as contracted services to you. This will be analysed on a case-by-case basis, if you reject Scania’s EU Data License Agreement, and we will contact you separately if any of your existing services will have to be terminated. Such termination will always be in accordance with the applicable contracts we have with you for the services affected.
    

2. For similar reasons, Scania might not be able to offer you new connectivity or contracted services in the future. 

    

3. As Scania’s opportunities to use data for purposes of improving functionality and quality of its products will be very limited, you might not receive optimised updates of your existing products and you may also miss the opportunity to receive the best possible Scania products and services in the future.

    

4. Scania’s ability to optimise sustainability of our existing and future products (such as for environmental friendliness) may similarly be impaired, meaning ultimately that our joint promotion of a better future is not optimised.

    

5. Scania is liable under the Data Act to share with you only such data which is available to us. Scania will use certain amounts of data from your connected Scania products in any event, such as for providing services to you (if any, and as long as they remain up and running) and from the fulfilment of mandatory obligations according to other Union law as further set out below. Such use, however, will not cover all relevant data. Without an EU Data License Agreement, the data opportunities for yourself and your designated service providers outside of Scania may consequently become more limited.

Data obligations under other Union law

Note that Scania as manufacturer of Scania-branded connected products have mandatory obligations to collect and process certain data from connected products according to other Union law (e.g. around cybersecurity, product safety, repair and maintenance information/RMI and roadworthiness verification, etc). Such obligations apply notwithstanding the Data Act, and Scania will consequently always comply with these.

Read and sign Scania’s EU Data Access Agreement in My Scania.