EUDPR· Article 27
Text
Article 27 EUDPR as printed in the Council text of 22 October 2026
Data protection by design and by default
Source Council, 22 October 2026. Article 27: ST 14756/26, page 152 · exact text page
Scope This text prints Article 27(1), Article 27(2) only.
Article 27(1)
Taking into account the state of the art, the cost of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risks of varying likelihood and severity for rights and freedoms of natural persons posed by the processing, with particular regard to the lists referred to in Article 39(4) and (5), the controller and the processor shall, both at the time of the determination of the means for processing and at the time of the processing itself as applicable, implement, in an effective manner, appropriate technical and organisational measures, such as pseudonymisation, which are designed to implement data-protection principles, such as data minimisation, and to integrate the necessary safeguards into the processing in order to meet the requirements of this Regulation and protect the rights of data subjects.
Article 27(2)
2.The controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that, by default, only personal data which are necessary for each specific purpose of the processing are processed. That obligation applies to the amount of personal data collected, the extent of their processing, the period of their storage and their accessibility. In particular, such measures shall ensure that by default personal data are not made accessible to an indefinite number of natural persons without the individual's intervention.
How each paragraph has changed
| What each text would do to the law in force | |||||||
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| Paragraph | Commission19 Nov 2025 | Council10 Jun 2026 | Council18 Jun 2026 | Council3 Sep 2026 | Council2 Oct 2026 | Council22 Oct 2026 | Parliamentamendments |
| Compared with | law in force | the proposal | 10 Jun text | 18 Jun text | 3 Sep text | 2 Oct text | |
| 1Paragraph 1 | No change Unchanged | No change Unchanged | Amends , changed since 10 Jun Changed | Amends Unchanged | Amends Unchanged | Amends Unchanged | 0 |
| 2Paragraph 2 | No change Unchanged | No change Unchanged | Amends , changed since 10 Jun Changed | Amends Unchanged | Amends Unchanged | Amends Unchanged | 0 |
| Provisions only Parliament would add or change1 unit | Not in the law in force or this text In neither text | Not in the law in force or this text In neither text | Not in the law in force or this text In neither text | Not in the law in force or this text In neither text | Not in the law in force or this text In neither text | Not in the law in force or this text In neither text | 1 |
Each text against the law in force: ~Amends amends the law in force=No change leaves the law in force as it is— neither the law in force nor the text has it changed from the text before
Each text against the text before it: ~Changed wording changed=Unchanged same as the text before— in neither text
What each text does
- 19 Nov 2025 Commission proposalCOM(2025) 837 No change Leaves this article as in the law in force.
- 10 Jun 2026 Council textST 10426/26 Unchanged Same as the text before.
- 18 Jun 2026 Council textST 10677/26 Changed Changes paragraphs 1 and 2. Article 27 in this text
- 27 Jul 2026 ITRE–LIBE amendments 1565–1740 to the draft reportCJ72-AM-791874 1 amendment to this article. Amendments in this document
- 3 Sep 2026 Council textST 12535/26 Unchanged Same as the text before. Article 27 in this text
- 2 Oct 2026 Council textST 13886/26 Unchanged Same as the text before. Article 27 in this text
- 22 Oct 2026 Council textST 14756/26 Unchanged Same as the text before. Article 27 in this text
Paragraph 1
Changed by the Council on 18 June
Paragraph 2
Changed by the Council on 18 June
Provisions only Parliament amendments would add or change
1 amendment on 1 unit the Commission proposal leaves unchanged
Paragraph 1a (new)New
1667 +Addition Francesco TorselliECR · ITRE–LIBE “(d) the data controller shall implement technical and organisational measures to ensure that the generation of cognitive inferences is limited to…”
(ca)
(d)the data controller shall implement technical and organisational measures to ensure that the generation of cognitive inferences is limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes pursued and is not used to exploit the data subject’s cognitive vulnerabilities.
(Our intention is to insert a paragraph (d) following paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the abovementioned article.)
Justification
This strengthens data protection by design in the age of cognitive inferences.
- Tabled by
- Francesco Torselli
- Group
- ECR
- Targets
- EUDPR Article 27 – paragraph 1a (new)
- Document
- ITRE–LIBE amendments 1565–1740 to the draft report
- Printed header
- Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 6 / Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 / Article 27 – paragraph 1a (new)