Texts to 22 Oct 2026

Digital Omnibus proposal· Recital 44b

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Recital 44b Digital Omnibus proposal as printed in the Council text of 22 October 2026

Source Council, 22 October 2026. Recital 44b: ST 14756/26, page 46 · exact text page

With a view to reducing the compliance burden and providing legal clarity, and given that certain purposes of processing pose a low risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects or that such processing may be necessary to provide a service requested by a subscriber or user, it is necessary to define a limitative list of purposes for which the processing should be permitted without consent. As regards storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in a terminal equipment, and subsequent processing that is necessary for those purposes, the Directive should therefore provide that such processing is lawful, including when being carried out jointly with or on the behalf of a controller. For example a media service provider, may mandate a third party, such as a market research company, to carry out such processing.

How the recitals changed

Each text against the text before it

Recital Commission19 Nov 2025Rec 44Council21 May 2026Rec 44Council10 Jun 2026Rec 44–44cCouncil18 Jun 2026Rec 44–44cCouncil3 Sep 2026Rec 44–44gCouncil2 Oct 2026Rec 44–44gCouncil22 Oct 2026Rec 44–44g
Compared withlaw in forcethe proposal21 May text10 Jun text18 Jun text3 Sep text2 Oct text
Recital 44 44 Added 44 Changed 44 Changed 44 Unchanged 44 Unchanged 44 Changed 44 Unchanged
Recital 44a In neither text In neither text 44a Added 44a Unchanged 44a Unchanged 44a Unchanged 44a Unchanged
Recital 44b In neither text In neither text 44b Added 44b Changed 44b Changed keeps the first three sentences 44b Unchanged 44b Unchanged
Recital 44c In neither text In neither text In neither text In neither text 44c Added Some sentences moved 44c Unchanged 44c Unchanged
Recital 44d In neither text In neither text In neither text In neither text 44d Added 44d Changed keeps the first five sentences 44d Unchanged
Recital 44e (new in ST 13886/26) In neither text In neither text In neither text In neither text In neither text 44e Added Some sentences moved 44e Unchanged Wording check
Recital 44e In neither text In neither text In neither text In neither text 44e Added 44f Changed 44f Unchanged
Recital 44f In neither text In neither text In neither text In neither text 44f Added 44g Changed 44g Unchanged
Recital 44g In neither text In neither text 44c Added 44c Unchanged 44g Unchanged 44g Changed 44g Unchanged

Each text against the text before it: +Added in this text, not in the text before~Changed wording changed=Unchanged same as the text before— in neither text

Wording moved the wording comes from a different earlier recital Wording check the wording is closer to a different earlier recital

Parliament amendments propose other recitals under these numbers: Recital 44a (new).

Renumbering and wording

3 September to 2 October 2026

ST 13886/26 renumbers the 3 September recitals 44e and 44f as 44f and 44g and adds a new recital 44e.

2 October recitalRenumbered fromWording
44 3 September 44same number Changed from 3 September recital 44
44a 3 September 44asame number Same wording as 3 September recital 44a
44b 3 September 44bsame number Same wording as 3 September recital 44b
44c 3 September 44csame number Same wording as 3 September recital 44c
44d 3 September 44dsame number Changed from 3 September recital 44d
44eRecital 44e (new in ST 13886/26) no earlier recital New in this text Some sentences moved from 3 September recital 44d (sentences 6 to 10)
44fRecital 44e 3 September 44erenumbered in this text Changed from 3 September recital 44e
44gRecital 44f 3 September 44frenumbered in this text Changed from 3 September recital 44f
44g 3 September 44gsame number Changed from 3 September recital 44g