Texts to 22 Oct 2026

Amendment 1169· GDPR Article 29a (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. 100–101·printed header: Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 7 b (new) / Regulation (EU) 2016/679 / Article 29a (new)
Targets
Article 29a (new) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Text of the amendment

As tabled

Amending instruction

7b. The following article is added

Article it would add

Article 29a

Application of pseudonymisation and identification of a natural person:

1.Controllers and processors may apply pseudonymisation in order to reduce the risks to the data subjects concerned and to comply with their obligations under this Regulation, in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information. The Commission may adopt implementing acts to specify means and criteria to determine whether a natural person is identifiable, including through personal data having undergone data resulting from pseudonymisation, account shall be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out or online identifiers, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly no longer constitutes personal data for certain entities.

2.The application of pseudonymisation to personal data may, depending on the circumstances of the case and provided that appropriate technical and organisational measures are put in place and are such as to prevent the data in question from being attributed to the data subject, effectively prevent persons other than the controller from identifying the data subject in such a way that, for them, the data subject is not or is no longer identifiable.

3.Where a person other than the controller referred to in paragraph 2 discloses, transmits or otherwise makes such data available to a third party and it cannot be ruled out that this third party possesses or can obtain means reasonably likely to enable the data subject to be identified, both the transmission of the data to this third party and the subsequent processing of the data by this third party is to be considered as processing of data relating to an identifiable natural person.

Wider passage printed with the amendment

(new)

GDPR Article 29a with this amendment

Amendment 1169 applied to the Commission proposal, no other amendment

1.

Controllers and processors may apply pseudonymisation in order to reduce the risks to the data subjects concerned and to comply with their obligations under this Regulation, in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information. The Commission may adopt implementing acts to specify means and criteria to determine whether a natural person is identifiable, including through personal data having undergone data resulting from pseudonymisation, account shall be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out or online identifiers, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly no longer constitutes personal data for certain entities.

New
2.

The application of pseudonymisation to personal data may, depending on the circumstances of the case and provided that appropriate technical and organisational measures are put in place and are such as to prevent the data in question from being attributed to the data subject, effectively prevent persons other than the controller from identifying the data subject in such a way that, for them, the data subject is not or is no longer identifiable.

New
3.

Where a person other than the controller referred to in paragraph 2 discloses, transmits or otherwise makes such data available to a third party and it cannot be ruled out that this third party possesses or can obtain means reasonably likely to enable the data subject to be identified, both the transmission of the data to this third party and the subsequent processing of the data by this third party is to be considered as processing of data relating to an identifiable natural person.

New

Full text on the GDPR Article 29a page

Target

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

No Council text amends Article 29a (new).

Cite this amendment

Amendment 1169 (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. 100–101

Link, short form and official text
Reference

Amendment 1169 (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. 100–101

Short form

ITRE–LIBE Amendment 1169 (CJ72-AM-791073), p. 100

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