Texts to 22 Oct 2026

Amendment 1063· GDPR Article 9(5a) (new)

Addition

Tabled by
Julie Rechagneux and 8 others (ECR, PfE)Julie Rechagneux, Mélanie Disdier, Aleksandar Nikolic, Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Alexandre Varaut, Fabrice Leggeri, Marion Maréchal, António Tânger Corrêa, Christophe Bay
Committee and document
ITRE–LIBE·amendments 1053–1260 to the draft report (CJ72-AM-791073, PE791.073v01-00)·27 July 2026
Source
Official text, pp. 11–12·printed header: Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b / Regulation (EU) 2016/679 / Article 9 – paragraph 5a (new)
Targets
Article 9(5a) (new) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Text of the amendment

As tabled

Wording it would add

5a.‘Where the processing referred to in point k of paragraph 2 is carried out in the context of an AI regulatory sandbox established under Article 57 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, or in the context of testing in real world conditions under Article 60 of that Regulation, the processing shall comply with the conditions and safeguards laid down, respectively, in Article 59 and in Articles 60 and 61 of that Regulation. In particular, the personal data shall be processed in a functionally separate, isolated and protected environment under the control of the controller; effective monitoring and response mechanisms shall be in place to identify and mitigate high risks to the rights and freedoms of the data subjects and, where necessary, to stop the processing; and any personal data shall be deleted once the participation in the sandbox or the testing has terminated.’

GDPR Article 9 with this amendment

Amendment 1063 applied to the Commission proposal, no other amendment

Unchanged: (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5)
1.

Processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.

2.

Paragraph 1 shall not apply if one of the following applies:

(a)

the data subject has given explicit consent to the processing of those personal data for one or more specified purposes, except where Union or Member State law provide that the prohibition referred to in paragraph 1 may not be lifted by the data subject;

(b)

processing is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising specific rights of the controller or of the data subject in the field of employment and social security and social protection law in so far as it is authorised by Union or Member State law or a collective agreement pursuant to Member State law providing for appropriate safeguards for the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject;

(c)

processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person where the data subject is physically or legally incapable of giving consent;

(d)

processing is carried out in the course of its legitimate activities with appropriate safeguards by a foundation, association or any other not-for-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim and on condition that the processing relates solely to the members or to former members of the body or to persons who have regular contact with it in connection with its purposes and that the personal data are not disclosed outside that body without the consent of the data subjects;

(e)

processing relates to personal data which are manifestly made public by the data subject;

(f)

processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity;

(g)

processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, on the basis of Union or Member State law which shall be proportionate to the aim pursued, respect the essence of the right to data protection and provide for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject;

(h)

processing is necessary for the purposes of preventive or occupational medicine, for the assessment of the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services on the basis of Union or Member State law or pursuant to contract with a health professional and subject to the conditions and safeguards referred to in paragraph 3;

(i)

processing is necessary for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, such as protecting against serious cross-border threats to health or ensuring high standards of quality and safety of health care and of medicinal products or medical devices, on the basis of Union or Member State law which provides for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the data subject, in particular professional secrecy;

(j)

processing is necessary for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) based on Union or Member State law which shall be proportionate to the aim pursued, respect the essence of the right to data protection and provide for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and the interests of the data subject.

(k)

processing in the context of the development and operation of an AI system as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 or an AI model, subject to the conditions referred to in paragraph 5.

(l)

processing of biometric data is necessary for the purpose of confirming the identity of a data subject (verification), where the biometric data or the means needed for the verification is under the sole control of the data subject.

3.

Personal data referred to in paragraph 1 may be processed for the purposes referred to in point (h) of paragraph 2 when those data are processed by or under the responsibility of a professional subject to the obligation of professional secrecy under Union or Member State law or rules established by national competent bodies or by another person also subject to an obligation of secrecy under Union or Member State law or rules established by national competent bodies.

4.

Member States may maintain or introduce further conditions, including limitations, with regard to the processing of genetic data, biometric data or data concerning health.

5.

For processing referred to in point (k) of paragraph 2, appropriate organisational and technical measures shall be implemented to avoid v the collection and otherwise processing of special categories of personal data. Where, despite the implementation of such measures, the controller identifies special categories of personal data in the datasets used for training, testing or validation or in the AI system or AI model, the controller shall remove such data. If removal of those data requires disproportionate effort, the controller shall in any event effectively protect without undue delay such data from being used to produce outputs, from being disclosed or otherwise made available to third parties.

5a.

‘Where the processing referred to in point k of paragraph 2 is carried out in the context of an AI regulatory sandbox established under Article 57 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, or in the context of testing in real world conditions under Article 60 of that Regulation, the processing shall comply with the conditions and safeguards laid down, respectively, in Article 59 and in Articles 60 and 61 of that Regulation. In particular, the personal data shall be processed in a functionally separate, isolated and protected environment under the control of the controller; effective monitoring and response mechanisms shall be in place to identify and mitigate high risks to the rights and freedoms of the data subjects and, where necessary, to stop the processing; and any personal data shall be deleted once the participation in the sandbox or the testing has terminated.’

New

Full text on the GDPR Article 9 page

Justification

The processing of personal data for the development of AI systems must be accompanied by robust safeguards, in particular as regards special categories of personal data. This amendment specifies the organisational and technical measures to be implemented, provides objective criteria for assessing whether the removal of inadvertently collected special categories of data would require a disproportionate effort, and subjects the removal itself to a requirement of promptness. It further establishes a graduated approach: where the processing takes place within an AI regulatory sandbox or in the course of testing in real world conditions, it must comply with the conditions and safeguards laid down, respectively, in Articles 59, 60 and 61 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, thereby importing the risk-control mechanisms of that Regulation — isolated processing environments, effective monitoring and response mechanisms, and deletion upon completion. Where the controller is a small or medium-sized enterprise or a small mid-cap, the measures are to be applied in a manner adapted to its capacities, without reducing the protection afforded to data subjects. This ensures coherence with the Artificial Intelligence Act while supporting innovation, in particular by smaller Union operators.

Target

Wording of the targeted provisionlaw in force, Commission proposal, latest Council text

No Council text amends Article 9(5a) (new).

Cite this amendment

Amendment 1063 (Julie Rechagneux and others), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 1053–1260 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-791073, PE791.073v01-00, 27 July 2026), pp. 11–12

Link, short form and official text
Reference

Amendment 1063 (Julie Rechagneux and others), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 1053–1260 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-791073, PE791.073v01-00, 27 July 2026), pp. 11–12

Short form

ITRE–LIBE Amendment 1063 (CJ72-AM-791073), p. 11

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