Amendment 578· Data Act Article 2(54)
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Text of the amendment
As tabled
Wordingagainst the Commission’s
54. ‘secure processing environment’ means the physical or virtual environment and organisational means to ensure compliance with Union law in particular with regard to data subjects’ rights, intellectual property rights, and commercial and statistical confidentiality, integrity and accessibility, as well as with applicable national law, and to allow the entity providing the secure processing environment to determine and supervise all data processing actions, including the display, storage, download and export of data and the calculation of derivative data through computational algorithms, ensuring governance, access control, traceability, anonymisation, data minimisation, data protection impact assessments and compliance with security requirements, business confidentiality and protection of data subject rights, as well as interoperability with other secure processing environments, within an EU-wide framework;
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Justification
Proper supervision of all data processing actions is necessary, while ensuring data protection in accordance with the legislation in force and without prejudice to data subjects.
Target
Wording of the targeted provisionlaw in force, Commission proposal, latest Council text
Commission proposalCOM(2025) 837
(54) ‘certain categories of protected data’ means data and documents held by public sector bodies which are protected on the grounds of (a) commercial confidentiality, including business, professional and company secrets; (b) statistical confidentiality; (c) the protection of intellectual property rights of third parties; or (d) the protection of personal data, insofar as such data fall outside the scope of Section 2 of Chapter VIIc;
Council text of 22 October 2026ST 14756/26, Article 2(53)
(53) ‘certain categories of protected data’ means data held by public sector bodies which are protected on the grounds of
(a)commercial confidentiality, including business, professional and company secrets;
(b)statistical confidentiality;
(c)the protection of intellectual property rights of third parties; or
(d)the protection of personal data, insofar as such data fall outside the scope of Section 2 of Chapter VIIc;
Cite this amendment
Amendment 578 (Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 527–776 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-791071, PE791.071v01-00, 27 July 2026), pp. 32–33
Link, short form and official text
Amendment 578 (Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă), European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, amendments 527–776 to the draft report on COM(2025) 837 (CJ72-AM-791071, PE791.071v01-00, 27 July 2026), pp. 32–33
ITRE–LIBE Amendment 578 (CJ72-AM-791071), p. 32