Country
🇦🇹 Austria
National party
NEOS – Das Neue Österreich
Current EP group
Renew
Renew Europe Group
Ballot-by-ballot record
7 material plenary votes
Initial regulation
2020/0259(COD)
Created the temporary ePrivacy derogation that allowed providers to voluntarily scan private communications for CSAM.
Adopt the temporary scanning derogation.
Reject the temporary scanning derogation.
Extension mandate
2023/0452(COD)
Authorized Parliament to enter negotiations on extending the temporary scanning derogation. This was a negotiating mandate, not final adoption.
Advance negotiations to extend the derogation.
Reject the extension negotiating mandate.
Extension adopted
2023/0452(COD)
Finally adopted the agreement extending the temporary scanning derogation.
Adopt the extension of the derogation.
Reject the extension of the derogation.
Restricted extension
2025/0429(COD)
Adopted Parliament’s first-reading position for a more restricted extension of the voluntary detection rules.
Adopt the restricted extension.
Reject the restricted extension.
Commission proposal
2025/0429(COD)
Put the Commission’s prolongation proposal to a final vote. Parliament rejected it.
Prolong the voluntary detection derogation.
Reject the proposed prolongation.
Council rejection
2025/0429(COD)
Asked Parliament to reject the Council position. Because this was a rejection motion, a raw FOR vote opposed the scanning measure.
Reject the Council position.
Keep the Council position in play.
Amended rejection
2025/0429(COD)
Asked Parliament to reject its amended, more limited position. A raw FOR vote opposed even that extension; a raw AGAINST vote retained it.
Reject Parliament’s amended extension.
Retain Parliament’s amended extension.
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