Texts to 22 Oct 2026

Amendment 1597· GDPR Article 88d (new)

Addition

Tabled by
Axel Voss (EPP)
Committee and document
ITRE–LIBE·amendments 1565–1740 to the draft report (CJ72-AM-791874, PE791.874v01-00)·27 July 2026
Source
Official text, pp. 37–39·printed header: Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 15 b (new) / Regulation (EU) 2016/679 / Article 88d (new)
Targets
Article 88d (new) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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

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.

New
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).

New
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.

New

Full text on the GDPR Article 88d page

Justification

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
Reference

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

Short form

ITRE–LIBE Amendment 1597 (CJ72-AM-791874), p. 37

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