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Texts to 22 Oct 2026

Data Act· Article 32o

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Article 32o Data Act as printed in the Council text of 3 September 2026

Source Council, 3 September 2026. Article 32o: ST 12535/26, page 85 · Article 32o · pp. 85–86 · exact text page

Dropped

This Council draft drops the change the Commission proposed. It deletes nothing from the law in force. The dropped wording reappears, merged and changed, in Article 32la of this draft.

The tracker does not establish the wording of Article 32o in the Council text of 2 October 2026 (ST 13886/26); see its Article 32la.

How the article has changed

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Each text against the law in force: +Adds adds a provision the law in force lacks— neither the law in force nor the text has it changed from the text before

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What each text does

  1. 19 Nov 2025 Commission proposalCOM(2025) 837 Adds Adds the article. Article 32o in this text
  2. 10 Jun 2026 Council textST 10426/26 Dropped Drops the article. Article 32o in this text
  3. 18 Jun 2026 Council textST 10677/26 No amendment to this article. Article 32o in this text
  4. 16 Jul 2026 IMCO amendments 125–328 to the draft opinionIMCO-AM-790905 1 amendment to this article. Amendments in this document
  5. 27 Jul 2026 ITRE–LIBE amendments 777–1052 to the draft reportCJ72-AM-791072 1 amendment to this article. Amendments in this document
  6. 3 Sep 2026 Council textST 12535/26 No amendment to this article. Article 32o in this text
  7. 2 Oct 2026 Council textST 13886/26 No amendment to this article.
  8. 22 Oct 2026 Council textST 14756/26 No amendment to this article.

Article 32o: Text of the article

Added by the Commission · dropped by the Council on 10 June

Wording moved Article 32la in the Council texts of 10 June, 18 June and 3 September 2026 takes this wording, merged with Article 32ab, with changes.

  • (1) becomes 1.
  • (2) becomes 2.merged with Article 32ab(1) and (2)
  • (3) becomes 3.
  • (4): not carried overno paragraph of its own; the same review by an impartial body is part of Article 32ab(3), now paragraph 4
  • (5): not carried overdoes not recur in Article 32la
  • (6) becomes 5.
How the wording moved

A merge with changes. Paragraphs (1), (3) and (6) of Article 32o become paragraphs 1, 3 and 5 of Article 32la. Paragraph 1 now reads ‘the data or document’ for ‘the document’, and paragraph 3 drops from its first sentence the listed grounds in Articles 32i and 32n and adds the competent body in its second. Paragraph (2) merges with Article 32ab(1) and (2) into paragraph 2, which sets new time limits: in principle 20 working days, at most two months for particularly complex requests and three months for requests relating to protected data. Paragraph (4) has no paragraph of its own, because the same review by an impartial body is part of Article 32ab(3), now paragraph 4. Paragraph (5), on practical arrangements, does not recur in Article 32la.

Provisions only Parliament amendments would add or change

2 amendments on 1 unit the Commission proposal leaves unchanged

Paragraph 3Not amended by the Commission2 proposals

  1. 305 Alternative Virginie JoronPfE · IMCO “defence or economic security referred to in”

    (3) In the event of a negative decision, the public sector bodies shall communicate the grounds for refusal to the applicant on the basis of the relevant provisions of the access regime in that Member State or the provisions of this Regulation, in particular pointsArticle 32i(2)(a) to (c) of paragraph 2 ofand Article 32i and points (3)(a) to (d), reasons of paragraphpublic 3security ofdefence or economic security referred to in Article 32i(2)(c) or Article 32n32m (general principle ODD Section). Where a negative decision is based on pointArticle 32i(3)(d) of paragraph 3 of Article 32i, the public sector body shall include a reference to the natural or legal person who is the rightsholder, where known, or alternatively to the licensor from which the public sector body has obtained the relevant material. Libraries, including university libraries, museums and archives, shall not be required to include such a reference.

    Tabled by
    Virginie Joron
    Group
    PfE
    Targets
    Data Act Article 32o(3)
    Document
    IMCO amendments 125–328 to the draft opinion
    Printed header
    Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 / Regulation 2023/2854 / Article 32 o
  2. 817 Alternative Julie Rechagneux +7ECR, PfE · ITRE–LIBE “the grounds of public security, defence or economic security referred to in Article 32i(2)(c)”

    (3) In the event of a negative decision, the public sector bodies shall communicate the grounds for refusal to the applicant on the basis of the relevant provisions of the access regime in that Member State or the provisions of this Regulation, in particular points (a) to (c) of paragraph 2 of Article 32i and points (a) to (d) of paragraph 3 of Article 32i, the grounds of public security, defence or economic security referred to in Article 32i(2)(c), or Article 32n (general principle ODD Section). Where a negative decision is based on point (d) of paragraph 3 of Article 32i, the public sector body shall include a reference to the natural or legal person who is the rightsholder, where known, or alternatively to the licensor from which the public sector body has obtained the relevant material. Libraries, including university libraries, museums and archives, shall not be required to include such a reference.

    Tabled by
    Julie Rechagneux, Mélanie Disdier, Aleksandar Nikolic, Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Alexandre Varaut, Fabrice Leggeri, Marion Maréchal, Christophe Bay
    Group
    ECR, PfE
    Targets
    Data Act Article 32o(3)
    Document
    ITRE–LIBE amendments 777–1052 to the draft report
    Printed header
    Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 / Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 / Article 32o – paragraph 3