Procedure

Digital Services Act and fundamental rights issues posed

2020/2022(INI)·9th term·CULT / IMCO / LIBE·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): PEETERS Kris (EPP)
Summary

Own-initiative report on the Digital Services Act and the fundamental rights issues it poses. Amendments stress fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, privacy and data protection, keeping legal content online, judicial review of content-removal measures and limits on transferring public-authority tasks to private firms, transparency and appeal rights, protection of children, codes of conduct and self-regulation, the precedence of sector-specific rules, and compliance with the GDPR.

Procedure timeline

  1. Committee amendments tabled
    28 Apr 2020 – 24 Jun 2020
  2. Plenary vote — Passed
    20 Oct 2020 · On the resolution (the text as a whole)
  3. Procedure completed
397
Amendments
distinct, in window
84
Members
tabled at least one
3
Committee(s)
28 Apr 2020 – 24 Jun 2020
Dates

Plenary votes

1 roll-call votes

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  1. 20 Oct 2020Main votePassedoutcome from totals
    On the resolution (the text as a whole)
    Official label: Résolution · what was voted ↗
    566 for45 against80 abstentions12 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Official amendment documents

Full record

Members who amended this procedure

84 Members · by amendment count
1🇪🇪
Marina KALJURAND
Socialists & Democrats · Estonia
52
2🇸🇮
Tanja FAJON
Socialists & Democrats · Slovenia
52
3🇷🇴
Tudor CIUHODARU
Socialists & Democrats · Romania
52
4🇫🇷
Raphaël GLUCKSMANN
Socialists & Democrats · France
52
5🇩🇪
Patrick BREYER
Greens / EFA · Germany
46(46 solo)
6🇩🇪
Cornelia ERNST
The Left (GUE/NGL) · Germany
40
7🇪🇸
Pernando BARRENA ARZA
The Left (GUE/NGL) · Spain
40
8🇮🇪
Clare DALY
The Left (GUE/NGL) · Ireland
37
9🇧🇪
Kris PEETERS
European People's Party (EPP) · Belgium
33(1 solo)
10🇩🇪
Moritz KÖRNER
Renew Europe · Germany
26(26 solo)
11🇵🇹
Paulo RANGEL
European People's Party (EPP) · Portugal
25
12🇩🇪
Birgit SIPPEL
Socialists & Democrats · Germany
23
13🇨🇿
Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ
European People's Party (EPP) · Czechia
21
14🇫🇷
Anne-Sophie PELLETIER
The Left (GUE/NGL) · France
21
15🇵🇱
Beata KEMPA
European Conservatives & Reformists · Poland
20
16🇵🇱
Patryk JAKI
European Conservatives & Reformists · Poland
20
17🇮🇹
Brando BENIFEI
Socialists & Democrats · Italy
17(1 solo)
18🇫🇷
Fabienne KELLER
Renew Europe · France
16
19🇫🇷
Nathalie LOISEAU
Renew Europe · France
16
20🇫🇷
Sylvie GUILLAUME
Socialists & Democrats · France
15
21🇪🇸
Clara AGUILERA
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
14
22🇩🇪
Alexandra GEESE
Greens / EFA · Germany
14(14 solo)
23🇬🇷
Alexis GEORGOULIS
The Left (GUE/NGL) · Greece
13(13 solo)
24🇷🇴
Maria GRAPINI
Socialists & Democrats · Romania
13
25🇪🇸
Adriana MALDONADO LÓPEZ
Socialists & Democrats · Spain
12

The amendments, in full text

397 amendments

Every amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.

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