Amendment 1161· GDPR Article 22(3)
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Text of the amendment
As tabled
Amending instruction
7a. In Article 22, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
Paragraph 3 as it would read
In the cases referred to in points (a) and (c) of paragraph 1, the data controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain meaningful human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to challenge the decision taken in their regard.
Meaningful human intervention, on the part of the controller, requires that the human reviewer reviews the accuracy of the data, the logic involved in the decision and the consequences of the decision, not merely the output of the system.
The human reviewer shall have the competence, training and authority necessary to exercise that function, including for overriding automated decisions. The human reviewer shall enjoy protection from dismissal or its equivalent, disciplinary measures and other adverse treatment where they exercise their functions.
GDPR Article 22 with this amendment
Amendment 1161 applied to the Commission proposal, no other amendment
Unchanged: (1)
A decision which produces legal effects for a data subject or similarly significantly affects him or her may be based solely on automated processing, including profiling, only where that decision:
is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller regardless of whether the decision could be taken otherwise than by solely automated means;
is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or
is based on the data subject’s explicit consent.
In the cases referred to in points (a) and (c) of paragraph 21, the data controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain meaningful human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contestchallenge the decision taken in their regard.
Meaningful human intervention, on the part of the controller, requires that the human reviewer reviews the accuracy of the data, the logic involved in the decision and the consequences of the decision, not merely the output of the system.
The human reviewer shall have the competence, training and authority necessary to exercise that function, including for overriding automated decisions. The human reviewer shall enjoy protection from dismissal or its equivalent, disciplinary measures and other adverse treatment where they exercise their functions.
~AmendedUnchanged: (4)
Decisions referred to in paragraph 2 shall not be based on special categories of personal data referred to in Article 9(1), unless point (a) or (g) of Article 9(2) applies and suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests are in place.
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Justification
Sub-paragraph 3 based on Article 10(2) of the Platform Workers Directive (EU) 2024/2831.
Target
Wording of the targeted provisionlaw in force, Commission proposal, latest Council text
Law in forceGDPR, Article 22(3)
In the cases referred to in points (a) and (c) of paragraph 2, the data controller shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.
No Council text amends Article 22(3).
Cite this amendment
Amendment 1161 (Markéta Gregorová), 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. 90–91
Link, short form and official text
Amendment 1161 (Markéta Gregorová), 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. 90–91
ITRE–LIBE Amendment 1161 (CJ72-AM-791073), p. 90