Amendment 474· Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 46b (new)
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Text of the amendment
As tabled
Wording it would add
(46b)The processing of personal data should not give rise to profiling or to manipulative techniques contrary to Union law, in particular as regards behavioural targeting and the protection of children; the prohibitions and safeguards of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 continue to apply. Scientific research does not include processing whose principal object is to observe, profile or influence the behaviour of natural persons for commercial purposes, in particular behavioural advertising or the commercial targeting of individuals, even where scientific methods are used; this is without prejudice to fundamental or applied research, including where it delivers benefits in the general interest.
Justification
The broadening of research purposes must not allow processing whose principal object is behavioural targeting to be re-labelled as scientific research. The criterion retained is the principal object of the processing, not the method employed.
Target
Wording of the targeted provisionlaw in force, Commission proposal, latest Council text
No Council text amends Recital 46b (new).
Cite this amendment
Amendment 474 (Julie Rechagneux 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), p. 65
Link, short form and official text
Amendment 474 (Julie Rechagneux 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), p. 65
ITRE–LIBE Amendment 474 (CJ72-AM-790968), p. 65