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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2009 - 2014 Plenary sitting A7-0402/2013 21.11.2013 ***I REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) (COM(2012)0011 – C7-0025/2012 – 2012/0011(COD)) Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Rapporteur: Jan Philipp Albrecht RR\1010934EN.doc PE501.927v05-00 EN United in diversity EN PR_COD_1amCom Symbols for procedures * Consultation procedure *** Consent procedure ***I Ordinary legislative procedure (first reading) ***II Ordinary legislative procedure (second reading) ***III Ordinary legislative procedure (third reading) (The type of procedure depends on the legal basis proposed by the draft act.) Amendments to a draft act In amendments by Parliament, amendments to draft acts are highlighted in bold italics. Highlighting in normal italics is an indication for the relevant departments showing parts of the draft act which may require correction when the final text is prepared – for instance, obvious errors or omissions in a language version. Suggested corrections of this kind are subject to the agreement of the departments concerned. The heading for any amendment to an existing act that the draft act seeks to amend includes a third line identifying the existing act and a fourth line identifying the provision in that act that Parliament wishes to amend. Passages in an existing act that Parliament wishes to amend, but that the draft act has left unchanged, are highlighted in bold. Any deletions that Parliament wishes to make in such passages are indicated thus: [...]. PE501.927v05-00 2/623 RR\1010934EN.doc EN CONTENTS Page DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION ................................. 5 EXPLANATORY STATEMENT .......................................................................................... 198 OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS .......... 205 OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRY, RESEARCH AND ENERGY .......... 223 OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE INTERNAL MARKET AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ....................................................................................................................... 401 OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AFFAIRS ................................................. 520 PROCEDURE ........................................................................................................................ 623 RR\1010934EN.doc 3/623 PE501.927v05-00 EN PE501.927v05-00 4/623 RR\1010934EN.doc EN DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) (COM(2012)0011 – C7-0025/2012 – 2012/0011(COD)) (Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading) The European Parliament, – having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2012)0011), – having regard to Article 294(2) and Articles 16(2) and 114(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C7-0025/2012), – having regard to Article 294(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, – having regard to the reasoned opinions submitted, within the framework of Protocol No 2 on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, the German Bundesrat, the French Senate, the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Swedish Parliament, asserting that the draft legislative act does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity, – having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committe of 23 May 20121, – after consulting the Committee of the Regions, – having regard to the opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor of 7 March 2012, – having regard to the opinion of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights of 1 October 2012, – having regard to Rule 55 of its Rules of Procedure, – having regard to the report of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the opinions of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Legal Affairs (A7-0402/2013), 1. Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set out; 1 OJ C 229, 31.7.2012, p. 90. RR\1010934EN.doc 5/623 PE501.927v05-00 EN 2. Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend its proposal substantially or replace it with another text; 3. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments. Amendment 1 Proposal for a regulation Recital 14 Text proposed by the Commission Amendment (14) This Regulation does not address (14) This Regulation does not address issues of protection of fundamental rights issues of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms or the free flow of data and freedoms or the free flow of data related to activities which fall outside the related to activities which fall outside the scope of Union law, nor does it cover the scope of Union law. Regulation (EC) No processing of personal data by the Union 45/2001 of the European Parliament and institutions, bodies, offices and agencies, of the Council1 should be brought in line which are subject to Regulation (EC) No with this Regulation and applied in 45/200144, or the processing of personal accordance with this Regulation. data by the Member States when carrying out activities in relation to the common foreign and security policy of the Union. ____________ ______________ 44 OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1. 1 Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data (OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1). Amendment 2 Proposal for a regulation Recital 15 Text proposed by the Commission Amendment (15) This Regulation should not apply to (15) This Regulation should not apply to processing of personal data by a natural processing of personal data by a natural person, which are exclusively personal or person, which are exclusively personal, PE501.927v05-00 6/623 RR\1010934EN.doc EN domestic, such as correspondence and the family-related, or domestic, such as holding of addresses, and without any correspondence and the holding of gainful interest and thus without any addresses or a private sale and without any connection with a professional or connection with a professional or commercial activity. The exemption commercial activity. However, this should also not apply to controllers or Regulation should apply to controllers processors which provide the means for and processors which provide the means processing personal data for such for processing personal data for such personal or domestic activities. personal or domestic activities. Amendment 3 Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 Text proposed by the Commission Amendment (18) This Regulation allows the principle (18) This Regulation allows the principle of public access to official documents to be of public access to official documents to be taken into account when applying the taken into account when applying the provisions set out in this Regulation. provisions set out in this Regulation. Personal data in documents held by a public authority or public body may be disclosed by that authority or body in accordance with Union or Member State law regarding public access to official documents, which reconciles the right to data protection with the right of public access to official documents and constitutes a fair balance of the various interests involved. Amendment 4 Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 Text proposed by the Commission Amendment (20) In order to ensure that individuals are (20) In order to ensure that individuals are not deprived of the protection to which not deprived of the protection to which they are entitled under this Regulation, the they are entitled under this Regulation, the processing of personal data of data subjects processing of personal data of data subjects residing in the Union by a controller not residing in the Union by a controller not established in the Union should be subject established in the Union should be subject to this Regulation where the processing to this Regulation where the processing RR\1010934EN.doc 7/623 PE501.927v05-00 EN activities are related to the offering of activities are related to the offering of goods or services to such data subjects, or goods or services, irrespective of whether to the monitoring of the behaviour of such connected to a payment or not, to such data subjects. data subjects, or to the monitoring of such data subjects. In order to determine whether such a controller is offering goods or services to such data subjects in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller is envisaging the offering of services to data subjects residing in one or more Member States in the Union. Amendment 5 Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 Text proposed by the Commission Amendment (21) In order to determine whether a (21) In order to determine whether a processing activity can be considered to processing