Amendment 401· Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 43

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(43) In order to provide a strong and coherent data protection framework in the Union, the necessary adaptations of Directive (EU) 2016/680 and any other Union legal act applicable to such processing of personal data should follow after the adoption of this regulation, in order to allow for their application as close as possible to the entry into application of the amendments to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. Any following adaption of Directive (EU) 2016/680 should not impair the ability of competent authorities to process personal data collected in the context of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of specific criminal offences in order to develop an understanding of criminal activities and to make links between different criminal offences detected. Moreover, any concurrent adaptation of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 shall not impair the processing of personal data for the purpose of preventing threats to public security, internal security of Union institutions and bodies, or other important objectives of general public interest of the Union or of a Member State, in particular the objectives of the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the Union or an important economic or financial interest of the Union or of a Member State.

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