EU Parliament's IMCO Committee and NOYB publish Digital Omnibus reports
25/02/2026 | European Parliament
A comprehensive report commissioned by the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) examines whether the Digital Omnibus proposals amount to administrative simplification or to more substantive changes to digital safeguards for data, privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence (AI).
One of the principal areas of debate involves a proposed shift to a relative definition of personal data, which would exclude information that an entity cannot reasonably identify. However, recent reports suggest that the Council of the European Union has withdrawn this proposal in preference for maintaining the original EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) text. Other proposals covered in the report include extending the data breach notification window from 72 to 96 hours, establishing a Single Entry Point for incident reporting across multiple regulations, allowing the processing of personal data for model training under legitimate interests, and deferring high-risk AI compliance deadlines to late 2027. The report also addresses concerns about downgrading AI literacy requirements from mandatory to encouraged, the potential impact of changes to individual rights, effects on legal certainty, and complications with tracking cookie fatigue.
A separate report by the Austrian privacy and digital rights advocacy group NOYB. The latest report from NOYB builds on its 71-page analysis published at the end of 2025, supplementing it with comments following the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Joint Opinion issued in February.
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