Amendment 1597· GDPR Article 88d (new)
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Text of the amendment
As tabled
Amending instruction
15b. A new Article 88d is added after Article 88c
Wording it would add
Article 88d Processing of personal data in industrial operational environments
1.Where personal data are generated or collected by industrial machinery, industrial equipment, production systems or industrial internet-of-things devices in the course of their operation in an industrial operational environment, and are processed by a controller or processor solely for the purposes of operating, maintaining, monitoring, improving or securing such machinery, equipment, systems or devices, Articles 15 to 22, Article 30 and Article 35 shall not apply, provided that the conditions laid down in paragraph 2 are met.
2.Paragraph 1 shall apply only where the controller or processor, as applicable, implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are pseudonymised, or that any identifiers that are not strictly needed for the purposes described in paragraph 1 are removed, and are not processed for the purpose of evaluating the performance, behaviour or conduct of an identified or identifiable natural person, and are not used to take a decision producing legal effects concerning a data subject or similarly significantly affecting him or her within the meaning of Article 22(1).
3.This Article shall not apply to the processing of special categories of personal data referred to in Article 9(1), nor to personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10.
GDPR Article 88d with this amendment
Amendment 1597 applied to the Commission proposal, no other amendment
Where personal data are generated or collected by industrial machinery, industrial equipment, production systems or industrial internet-of-things devices in the course of their operation in an industrial operational environment, and are processed by a controller or processor solely for the purposes of operating, maintaining, monitoring, improving or securing such machinery, equipment, systems or devices, Articles 15 to 22, Article 30 and Article 35 shall not apply, provided that the conditions laid down in paragraph 2 are met.
+NewParagraph 1 shall apply only where the controller or processor, as applicable, implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are pseudonymised, or that any identifiers that are not strictly needed for the purposes described in paragraph 1 are removed, and are not processed for the purpose of evaluating the performance, behaviour or conduct of an identified or identifiable natural person, and are not used to take a decision producing legal effects concerning a data subject or similarly significantly affecting him or her within the meaning of Article 22(1).
+NewThis Article shall not apply to the processing of special categories of personal data referred to in Article 9(1), nor to personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in Article 10.
+NewJustification
Industrial machinery, production systems and IIoT devices generate operational data that may incidentally include identifiers such as user IDs, staff numbers or logs. Where processing is solely for operating, maintaining, improving or securing equipment, and not for monitoring workers or taking decisions about individuals, selected GDPR duties can be disproportionate. The amendment creates a narrow risk-based exemption, requiring pseudonymisation or identifier removal, excluding Article 9/10 data and preserving core GDPR principles, lawful basis and security duties.
Target
Wording of the targeted provisionlaw in force, Commission proposal, latest Council text
No Council text amends Article 88d (new).
Cite this amendment
Amendment 1597 (Axel Voss), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 1565–1740 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-791874, PE791.874v01-00, 27 July 2026), pp. 37–39
Link, short form and official text
Amendment 1597 (Axel Voss), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 1565–1740 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-791874, PE791.874v01-00, 27 July 2026), pp. 37–39
ITRE–LIBE Amendment 1597 (CJ72-AM-791874), p. 37