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ePrivacy· Article 4

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Article 4 ePrivacy as printed in the Council text of 22 October 2026

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Source Council, 22 October 2026. Article 4: ST 14756/26, page 156 · exact text page

The Council draft deletes this provision and supplies no replacement wording. Open the official source to read the instruction in context.

The amending passage as printed

1. Article 4 is deleted;

The Council text of 2 October 2026 (ST 13886/26) has a record for Article 4 without wording to compare; see its Article 4.

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What each text does

  1. 19 Nov 2025 Commission proposalCOM(2025) 837 Deletes Deletes the article. Article 4 in this text
  2. 21 May 2026 Council textST 9547/26 Unchanged Same as the text before.ST 9547/26 reproduces only some of the proposal’s changes, so this comparison applies only those it shows or visibly drops. It says nothing about the others. Article 4 in this text
  3. 8 Jun 2026 IMCO draft opinion · Alex Agius Saliba (rapporteur)IMCO-PA-789877 1 amendment to this article. Amendments in this document
  4. 10 Jun 2026 Council textST 10426/26 Unchanged Same as the text before. Article 4 in this text
  5. 18 Jun 2026 Council textST 10677/26 Unchanged Same as the text before. Article 4 in this text
  6. 27 Jul 2026 ITRE–LIBE amendments 1565–1740 to the draft reportCJ72-AM-791874 1 amendment to this article. Amendments in this document
  7. 3 Sep 2026 Council textST 12535/26 Back to law in force Takes the article back to the law in force. Article 4 in this text
  8. 2 Oct 2026 Council textST 13886/26 Deleted Deletes the article. Article 4 in this text
  9. 22 Oct 2026 Council textST 14756/26 Unchanged Same as the text before. Article 4 in this text

Article 4: Text of the article

Deleted by the Commission · back to the law in force on 3 September · deleted by the Council on 2 October

Parliament amendments 2

2 would delete the provision. Deletion amendments come from ECR and PfE, and from the IMCO rapporteur’s draft opinion.

  1. 122 Deletion Alex Agius Saliba (rapporteur)Rapporteur · IMCO Deletes the proposed article

    1. Article 4 is deleted;

    Rapporteur
    Alex Agius Saliba
    Group
    Rapporteur
    Targets
    ePrivacy Directive Article 4
    Document
    IMCO draft opinion
    Printed header
    Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point 1 / Directive 2002/58/EC / Article 4
  2. 1711 Deletion Julie Rechagneux +7ECR, PfE · ITRE–LIBE Deletes the proposed article

    1. Article 4 is deleted;

    Justification

    Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC is maintained. The transfer of the terminal regime to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 must not have the effect of repealing the specific protection which the ePrivacy Directive affords to the integrity of terminal equipment, which applies irrespective of whether the information stored or accessed constitutes personal data. Maintaining Article 5(3) preserves the protection of legal persons and of information which is not personal data, which would otherwise be left without any protection.

    Tabled by
    Julie Rechagneux, Mélanie Disdier, Aleksandar Nikolic, Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Alexandre Varaut, Fabrice Leggeri, Marion Maréchal, Christophe Bay
    Group
    ECR, PfE
    Targets
    ePrivacy Directive Article 4
    Document
    ITRE–LIBE amendments 1565–1740 to the draft report
    Printed header
    Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point 1 / Directive 2002/58/EC / Article 4