Amendment 1550· GDPR Article 88b(7a) (new)
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Text of the amendment
As tabled
Amending instruction
(7a) In Article 88b, the following paragrpah is added
Wording it would add
7a.The Commission shall, by [insert date = 3 years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the functioning of this Article, including an assessment of:
(a)the impact on user choice and competition;
(b)the effectiveness of machine-readable indications in reducing consent fatigue;
(c)the emergence of new gatekeeper risks;
(d)the impact on European media service providers; and
(e)the need for legislative amendment.'
GDPR Article 88b with this amendment
Amendment 1550 applied to the Commission proposal, no other amendment
Unchanged: (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7)
Controllers shall ensure that their online interfaces allow data subjects to:
Give consent through automated and machine-readable means, provided that the conditions for consent laid down in this Regulation are fulfilled;
decline a request for consent and exercise the right to object pursuant to Article 21(2) through automated and machine-readable means.
Controllers shall respect the choices made by data subjects in accordance with paragraph 1.
Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to controllers that are media service providers when providing a media service.
The Commission shall, in accordance with Article 10(1) of Regulation (EU) 1025/2012, request one or more European standardisation organisations to draft standards for the interpretation of machine-readable indications of data subjects’ choices. Online interfaces of controllers which are in conformity with harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union shall be presumed to be in conformity with the requirements covered by those standards or parts thereof, set out in paragraph 1.
Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply from [OP: please insert the date = 24 months following the date of entry into force of this Regulation].
Providers of web browsers, which are not SMEs, shall provide the technical means to allow data subjects to give their consent and to refuse a request for consent and exercise the right to object pursuant to Article 21(2) through the automated and machine-readable means referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, as applied pursuant to paragraphs 2 to 5 of this Article.
Paragraph 6 shall apply from [OP: please insert the date = 48 months following the date of entry into force of this Regulation].
The Commission shall, by [insert date = 3 years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the functioning of this Article, including an assessment of:
+Newthe impact on user choice and competition;
+Newthe effectiveness of machine-readable indications in reducing consent fatigue;
+Newthe emergence of new gatekeeper risks;
+Newthe impact on European media service providers; and
+Newthe need for legislative amendment.'
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Wording of the targeted provisionlaw in force, Commission proposal, latest Council text
No Council text amends Article 88b(7a) (new).
Cite this amendment
Amendment 1550 (Oliver Schenk 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), pp. 167–168
Link, short form and official text
Amendment 1550 (Oliver Schenk 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), pp. 167–168
ITRE–LIBE Amendment 1550 (CJ72-AM-791873), p. 167