Amendment 404· Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 43c (new)
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Text of the amendment
As tabled
Wording it would add
(43c)Interference with the confidentiality of metadata or interference with the protection of information stored in and related to users’ terminal equipment should only be considered to be lawful where it is strictly proportionate and necessary to protect an interest which is essential for the life of the data subject or that of another natural person. Such interference based on the vital interest of another natural person should take place only in a specific case and where the processing cannot be manifestly based on another legal basis.
Target
Wording of the targeted provisionlaw in force, Commission proposal, latest Council text
No Council text amends Recital 43c (new).
Cite this amendment
Amendment 404 (Marina Kaljurand and others), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 401–526 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-790968, PE790.968v01-00, 27 July 2026), pp. 5–6
Link, short form and official text
Amendment 404 (Marina Kaljurand and others), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 401–526 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-790968, PE790.968v01-00, 27 July 2026), pp. 5–6
ITRE–LIBE Amendment 404 (CJ72-AM-790968), p. 5