EDRi urged the Council to demand a proper scrutiny of the Digital Omnibus proposal
The Digital Omnibus proposal fails to comply with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Better Regulation rules, EDRi urged the Council to send the proposal back to the Commission for proper scrutiny and comprehensive assessments.
Ahead of the European Council’s meeting in December, we addressed a letter to the Representatives of EU Member States regarding the Digital Omnibus proposal, raising serious concerns about both its process and substance.
Civil society, alongside the EDPS and EDPB, highlighted that the proposal risks weakening fundamental rights, reducing transparency, and undermining accountability across the GDPR, ePrivacy rules, and the AI Act. The accelerated timeline, lack of evidence-based impact assessments, and deregulatory approach could lead to intrusive data collection, profiling, and discriminatory outcomes.
The Digital Omnibus proposal fails to comply with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Better Regulation rules, we urged the Council to send the proposal back to the Commission for proper scrutiny and comprehensive assessments.
Europe’s digital governance must remain rights-based, evidence-driven, and coherent: this step would reaffirm the Union’s commitment to rights-based lawmaking and create space for a structured and evidence-based discussion on how to improve implementation and enforcement of existing laws.
