Changes from plenary report to adopted text

RemovedDRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

AddedP10_TA(2026)0070

Changedon the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amendingAmending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application

Removed(COM(2025)0797 – C100370/2025 – 2025/0429(COD))

AddedCommittee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

AddedPE784.310

AddedAmendments adopted by the European Parliament on 11 March 2026 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application (COM(2025)0797 – C10-0370/2025 – 2025/0429(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: first reading)

Change 1

RemovedThe European Parliament,

AddedRegulation (EU) 2021/1232

Removed– having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2025)0797),

AddedArticle -1 (new), Article 3 - paragraph 1 - point a: Article -1 / In Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/1232, point (a) is replaced by the following: / (i) strictly necessary for the use of specific technology for the sole purpose of detecting and removing known online child sexual abuse material and reporting it to law enforcement authorities and to organisations acting in the public interest against child sexual abuse; / (iii) limited to content data that are strictly necessary for the purpose set out in point (i); / (v) not applied to interpersonal communications to which end-to-end encryption is, has been or will be applied;

Removed– having regard to Article 294(2) and Article 16(2) and Article 114(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C100370/2025),

AddedRegulation (EU) 2021/1232

Removed– having regard to Article 294(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

AddedArticle -1 a (new), Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i a (new): Article -1a / In Article 3(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2021/1232, the following point is inserted: / “(ia) targeted, specified and limited to individual users, a specific group of users, either as such or as subscribers to a specific channel of communication, in respect of whom there are reasonable grounds of suspicion for a link, even an indirect one, with child sexual abuse material, and which have been identified by the competent judicial authority;”

Removed– having regard to Rule 60 of its Rules of Procedure,

AddedRegulation (EU) 2021/1232

Removed– having regard to the report of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (A10-0040/2026),

AddedArticle -1 b (new), Article 3 - paragraph 1 - point b: Article -1b / In Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/1232, point (b) is replaced by the following: / (b) the technologies used for the purpose set out in point (a)(i) of this paragraph are in accordance with the state of the art in the industry and are the least privacy-intrusive, including with regard to the principle of data protection by design and by default laid down in Article 25 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and, to the extent that they are used to scan text in communications, they are not able to deduce the substance of the content of the communications but are solely able to detect patterns which point to possible online child sexual abuse, and, where such technologies are used for the detection of solicitation of children or previously unidentified online child sexual abuse material, such use shall be limited to cases where the provider has received a concrete report or notification from a user, a trusted flagger, or an organisation acting in the public interest against child sexual abuse concerning a specific communication, account or interaction indicating a reasonable suspicion of online child sexual abuse, and the detection shall be strictly limited to what is necessary in relation to that reported case.

Removed1. Rejects the Commission proposal;

AddedRegulation (EU) 2021/1232

Removed2. Calls on the Commission to withdraw its proposal;

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1, Article 10 - second subparagraph: It shall apply until 3 August 2027.

Removed3. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.