EU Data Act Switching Clause Lint

Your exit clause was probably written before Chapter VI of the Data Act applied. Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 has applied since 12 September 2025, and from 12 January 2027 a provider may charge nothing at all for switching. Most terms files in most repositories still say 90 days' notice, a six-month transition, a two-week download window and an egress price per gigabyte. AI drafting assistants reproduce that shape, because that is what the pre-2025 templates look like.

This extension reads contract text - terms.md, msa.md, the DPA, the reseller annex - and names the clauses Chapter VI no longer allows, one line at a time, each with its article number and the wording that replaces it.

What it checks (20 rules)

The charge rule is date-aware: run it today and it counts the days left until 12 January 2027; run it after that date and the same clause is reported as an error rather than a warning.

Example

The bundled sample contract _fixtures/dirty.md produces 21 findings - 14 errors and 7 warnings across all 20 rules. The corrected version, _fixtures/clean.md, produces 0. Two of the findings read:

L5   error   Art. 25(2) - Notice period of 90 days to start switching. Chapter VI caps the notice
             period for initiating switching at two months (Art. 25(2)).
L10  warn    Art. 29 - This contract still prices leaving. Switching charges must be zero from
             12 January 2027 - 121 days from 2026-09-13.

Free and paid

Free, no key: check the file open in the editor. Every finding in that file, with its article, its line and the replacement wording. That is a complete job - one contract, checked.

Paid, $29 once: the workspace sweep and the dated report. One command runs the same 20 checks over every contract file in the workspace and writes a dated Markdown report with a per-file table - the artefact you hand to counsel or attach to a tender answer. One licence key per person or team seat. Get a key: https://getreadystack.com/api/buy/cl/polar_cl_PQWEmhUFLQJSTpOot3FMujKCDC8ALMzB8eBRl2DyIVx

Yardstick: an EU technology lawyer reviewing the exit clauses of one cloud contract bills at EUR 250-450 per hour.

Commands

• Data Act Switching: Check This File - free
• Data Act Switching: Sweep Workspace and Write Report - paid
• Data Act Switching: Enter Licence Key

Browser version

The same engine, one page, nothing uploaded: https://getreadystack.com/tools/data-act-switching-lint

Not legal advice

The extension reports text against the wording of Chapter VI of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854. It is a reading aid for the people who maintain the files, not an opinion on your contract.