Digital Omnibus proposal· Recital 21
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Recital 21 Digital Omnibus proposal as printed in the Council text of 22 October 2026
Source Council, 22 October 2026. Recital 21: ST 14756/26, page 15 · exact text page
Both Directive (EU) 2019/1024 and Chapter II of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 regulate the re-use of public sector information for innovation purposes. The interplay of the two sets of rules has created legal uncertainty, mainly for public sector bodies. An alignment of the rules in one legal instrument is therefore necessary to bring further legal coherence and certainty.
How the recital changed
Each text against the text before it
| Recital | Commission19 Nov 2025Rec 21 | Council21 May 2026 | Council10 Jun 2026Rec 21 | Council18 Jun 2026Rec 21 | Council3 Sep 2026Rec 21 | Council2 Oct 2026Rec 21 | Council22 Oct 2026Rec 21 |
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| Compared with | law in force | the proposal | 21 May text | 10 Jun text | 18 Jun text | 3 Sep text | 2 Oct text |
| Recital 21 | 21 Added | In neither text | 21 Unchanged | 21 Unchanged | 21 Unchanged | 21 Unchanged | 21 Unchanged |
Each text against the text before it: +Added in this text, not in the text before=Unchanged same as the text before— in neither text
Parliament amendments
6 amendments to this recital
4 amendments would delete the whole recital: members of S&D and Greens/EFA, and the JURI rapporteur.
| Type | The Left | S&D | Greens/EFA | NI | Rapporteur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| − Deletion | · | 1 | 2 | · | 1 |
| ~ Alternative | 1 | · | · | 1 | · |
By political group
- − Deletion S&D 1 Greens/EFA 2 Rapporteur 1
- ~ Alternative The Left 1 NI 1
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9 −Deletion Brando Benifei (rapporteur)Rapporteur · JURI Deletes the recital
(21) Both Directive (EU) 2019/1024 and Chapter II of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 regulate the re-use of public sector information for innovation purposes. The interplay of the two sets of rules has created legal uncertainty, mainly for public sector bodies. An alignment of the rules in one legal instrument is therefore necessary to bring further legal coherence and certainty.- Rapporteur
- Brando Benifei
- Group
- Rapporteur
- Targets
- Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 21
- Document
- JURI draft opinion
- Source
- Official text, page 13
- Printed header
- Recital 21
102 −Deletion David CormandGreens/EFA · JURI Deletes the recital
(21) Both Directive (EU) 2019/1024 and Chapter II of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 regulate the re-use of public sector information for innovation purposes. The interplay of the two sets of rules has created legal uncertainty, mainly for public sector bodies. An alignment of the rules in one legal instrument is therefore necessary to bring further legal coherence and certainty.- Tabled by
- David Cormand
- Group
- Greens/EFA
- Targets
- Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 21
- Document
- JURI amendments 69–296 to the draft opinion
- Source
- Official text, page 35
- Printed header
- Recital 21
152 −Deletion David CormandGreens/EFA · IMCO Deletes the recital
(21) Both Directive (EU) 2019/1024 and Chapter II of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 regulate the re-use of public sector information for innovation purposes. The interplay of the two sets of rules has created legal uncertainty, mainly for public sector bodies. An alignment of the rules in one legal instrument is therefore necessary to bring further legal coherence and certainty.- Tabled by
- David Cormand on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
- Group
- Greens/EFA
- Targets
- Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 21
- Document
- IMCO amendments 125–328 to the draft opinion
- Source
- Official text, page 28
- Printed header
- Recital 21
175 −Deletion Elena Sancho Murillo +6S&D · ITRE–LIBE Deletes the recital
(21) Both Directive (EU) 2019/1024 and Chapter II of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 regulate the re-use of public sector information for innovation purposes. The interplay of the two sets of rules has created legal uncertainty, mainly for public sector bodies. An alignment of the rules in one legal instrument is therefore necessary to bring further legal coherence and certainty.- Tabled by
- Elena Sancho Murillo, Marina Kaljurand, Brando Benifei, José Cepeda, Lina Gálvez, Francisco Assis, Alex Agius Saliba
- Group
- S&D
- Targets
- Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 21
- Document
- ITRE–LIBE amendments 79–250 to the draft report
- Source
- Official text, page 97
- Printed header
- Recital 21
176 ~Alternative João OliveiraThe Left · ITRE–LIBE “interest into account. Action should be taken to promote data or document re-use models that are based on open licences, including for non-commercial…”
(21) Both Directive (EU) 2019/1024 and Chapter II of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 regulate the re-use of public sector information
for innovation purposes.The interplay of the two sets of rules has created legal uncertainty, mainly for public sector bodies.The interplay of the two sets of rules could be clarified and consolidated to ensure that the conditions for re-use are objective, transparent, proportionate, democratic and consistent with standardised open licences, and take the public interest into account. Action should be taken to promote data or document re-use models that are based on open licences, including for non-commercial users, researchers, civil society organisations, public interest bodies and community-led open knowledge projects. Public sector bodies should pursue open data regimes except where they determine that the data or documents in question contain information comprising certain categories of protected data.An alignment of the rules in one legal instrument is therefore necessary to bring further legal coherence and certainty.In those circumstances, they should limit public access thereto and consider making the data available for re-use in a protected format. Re-use regimes should seek to safeguard the public domain, the open licence status of the data or documents in question, interoperability, and the capacity for open knowledge projects to re-use and disseminate data and documents from the public sector.- Tabled by
- João Oliveira
- Group
- The Left
- Targets
- Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 21
- Document
- ITRE–LIBE amendments 79–250 to the draft report
- Printed header
- Recital 21
177 ~Alternative Diana Iovanovici ŞoşoacăNI · ITRE–LIBE “so as to improve European sustainability and boost competitiveness at Union level”
(21) Both Directive (EU) 2019/1024 and Chapter II of Regulation (EU) 2022/868 regulate the re-use of public sector information for innovation purposes. The interplay of the two sets of rules has created legal uncertainty, mainly for public sector bodies. An alignment of the rules in one legal instrument with standard and clear wordings is therefore necessary to bring further legal coherence and certainty so as to improve European sustainability and boost competitiveness at Union level.
- Tabled by
- Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă
- Group
- NI
- Targets
- Digital Omnibus proposal Recital 21
- Document
- ITRE–LIBE amendments 79–250 to the draft report
- Source
- Official text, page 98
- Printed header
- Recital 21