Amendment 1296· GDPR Article 41a(4)
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Wordingagainst the Commission’s
(4) The Commission shall closely involve the EDPB in the preparations of the implementing acts. The EPDB shall issue an opinion, which shall be made public, on the draft implementing acts within a deadline of 8 weeks as of the receipt of the draft from the Commission.
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GDPR Article 41a with this amendment
Amendment 1296 applied to the Commission proposal, no other amendment
Unchanged: (1), (2) and (3)
The Commission may adopt implementing acts to specify means and criteria to determine whether data resulting from pseudonymisation no longer constitutes personal data for certain entities.
For the purpose of paragraph 1 the Commission shall:
assess the state of the art of available techniques;
develop criteria and or categories for controllers and recipients to assess the risk of re-identification in relation to typical recipients of data.
The implementation of the means and criteria outlined in an implementing act may be used as an element to demonstrate that data cannot lead to reidentification of the data subjects.
The Commission shall closely involve the EDPB in the preparations of the implementing acts. The EPDB shall issue an opinion, which shall be made public, on the draft implementing acts within a deadline of 8 weeks as of the receipt of the draft from the Commission.
~AmendedUnchanged: (5)
The Implementing Acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 93(3).
Target
Wording of the targeted provisionlaw in force, Commission proposal, latest Council text
No Council text amends Article 41a(4).
Cite this amendment
Amendment 1296 (Tomas Tobé and others), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 1261–1564 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-791873, PE791.873v01-00, 27 July 2026), p. 21
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Amendment 1296 (Tomas Tobé and others), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 1261–1564 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-791873, PE791.873v01-00, 27 July 2026), p. 21
ITRE–LIBE Amendment 1296 (CJ72-AM-791873), p. 21