Procedure

Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - European Data Protection Supervisor

2025/2154(DEC)·10th term·CONT / LIBE·DEC

Summary

This dossier is the 2024 discharge for the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Amendments note the EDPS's new role under the Artificial Intelligence Act and its AI unit, time taken to handle complaints, staff mission costs, the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on contract costs, decisions on remotely proctored EPSO examinations and a Commission advertising campaign on the platform X, and open-source EU-based cloud solutions.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
29 Oct 2025 – 28 Jan 2026
Plenary vote — Adopted
29 Apr 2026 · On the motion for a resolution · the text as a whole

Amendments

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Members

tabled at least one

Committees

29 Oct 2025 – 28 Jan 2026

Dates

Plenary votes

2 roll-call votes

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29 Apr 2026Rejected
On amendment 2 · text to be inserted after paragraph 20
Official label: Après le § 20 - Am 2 · what was voted ↗
217 for425 against3 abstentions74 did not vote
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29 Apr 2026Main voteAdopted
On the motion for a resolution · the text as a whole
Official label: Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte) · what was voted ↗
528 for59 against62 abstentions70 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Plenary amendments2 tabled on this text

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

Amendment 1PfEMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 23 a (new)
Amendment
23 a. Recalls that the EDPS issued a decision on a complaint concerning a targeted advertising campaign conducted by the Commission on the social media platform X; recalls that the EDPS concluded that the Commission had infringed several provisions of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 by unlawfully processing personal data, including special categories of data such as political opinions and religious beliefs, without a valid legal basis;
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Amendment 2ECRMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 20 a (new)
Amendment
20 a. Deplores the European Data Protection Supervisor’s reprimand of 8 January 2025 to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) concerning the sharing of operational data on human smuggling networks and irregular migrants with Europol; stresses that the right to data protection under Article 8 of the Charter and the supposed “freedom of movement” of illegal migrants are not absolute and may be limited under Article 52(1) where such limitations are provided for by law and are necessary and proportionate to protect the Union’s external borders and combat cross-border crime, in line with Article 3(2) TEU and Article 67(3), Article 77, Article 79(2), point (c), and Article 87(2), po…
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