Amendment 186· Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 24a (new)

(24a)Techniques such as anonymisation, differential privacy, generalisation, suppression, randomisation, synthetic data and other state-of-the-art privacy-preserving methods can facilitate the secure use and re-use of data. Member States should support public sector bodies in applying such techniques so as to make more data available for sharing. Where appropriate, those techniques should be combined with data protection impact assessments and other safeguards, including processing in secure environments provided or controlled by public sector bodies, in particular for the re-use of personal data and commercially confidential data for research, innovation and statistical purposes. Any processing of personal data should comply with Articles 6 and, where applicable, 9 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.