The record today

The record today

What changed in the Chat Control record, day by day, newest first. Every line has a date and a source. When a day brings nothing new, it says so.

The full story of each document is on the tracker; where each government stands is on the governments page.

  • AnalysisA new record note sets out what the Council has made public about its “possible detection package”: the agenda of 20 October and the title of a paper, and nothing else. Neither paper for that day is public and no outcome has been published. Brussels Record has asked the Council for access to both papers.Source: “Chat Control: a ‘possible detection package’ on the Council’s agenda, and nothing published”, Brussels Record, 22 October 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 22 October 2026. No government changed its position. The Council’s register lists no new paper on the regulation since WK 15702/26 of 14 October. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. No date has been published for a seventh trilogue. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881 was still not on its page on 22 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • CouncilNothing has been published from the two Council meetings on the regulation convened for 20 October: the police working party on “a possible detection package” and the justice and home affairs counsellors on the state of play. The register lists no new paper on the file since WK 15702/26 of 14 October, and both papers for that day remain not public.Source: Council public register, file 2022/0155(COD), checked 21 October 2026.
  • GovernmentRomania has a government again. Parliament invested Luca Niculescu’s cabinet on 20 October by 280 votes to 58, after more than five months of caretaker rule. Marian Neacșu is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs, and Radu Marinescu Minister of Justice. Romania stays recorded as supporting mandatory scanning until the new government states a line in the Council.Source: Euronews, 21 October 2026; Romanian government, cabinet.
  • GovernmentIn Sweden, the Speaker gave Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist of the Centre Party an exploratory mandate on 19 October, to test whether a government the Riksdag can tolerate can be formed. She is to report by 26 October.Source: Riksdag, 19 October 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 21 October 2026. No government changed its position. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. No date has been published for a seventh trilogue. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881 was still not on its page on 21 October; the page still shows 24 September. The documents list now also includes the presidency’s overview 13051/26 of 29 September, which the tracker already cited.

  • DocumentThe Council has published the summary record of the Permanent Representatives Committee meeting of 23 September. Under item 9, “Preparation for the trilogue”, with the presidency’s note 13158/26, it records one line: “The Committee prepared the forthcoming trilogue on 29 September 2026.”Source: Council, summary record 13602/26, 15 October 2026, item 9.
  • GovernmentSweden’s Speaker, Andreas Norlén, spoke with the party leaders by telephone after the Riksdag rejected Magdalena Andersson as Prime Minister. He continues informal talks and will announce the next step in forming a government at a press conference on Monday 19 October at 13:30.Source: Riksdag, 16 October 2026.
  • GovernmentRomania’s Parliament has set the date: the proposed ministers are heard in committee on 19 and 20 October, and both chambers vote on Luca Niculescu’s government in a joint sitting on Tuesday 20 October at 14:00.Source: Cotidianul, 15 October 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 17 October 2026. No government changed its position. The Council’s register lists no new paper on the regulation since WK 15702/26 of 14 October, and neither paper for 20 October is public. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. No date has been published for a seventh trilogue. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881 was still not on its page on 17 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • DocumentThe paper for the counsellors’ meeting on 20 October at 14:30 is now in the Council’s register: WK 15702/26 of 14 October, “State of play and way forward”. It is not public; the register says its content is not accessible.Source: Council public register, file 2022/0155(COD), checked 15 October 2026.
  • Council20 October has a second meeting on the regulation, in the morning. A notice of 9 October calls justice and home affairs counsellors and experts in the Law Enforcement Working Party (Police) to meet at 10:00 for a “Technical discussion on a possible detection package”, on WK 15701/2026. The notice is public; the paper is not. We found the notice on 15 October.Source: Council, CM 4513/26, 9 October 2026.
  • GovernmentSweden’s Riksdag rejected Magdalena Andersson as Prime Minister: 99 votes for, 248 against, 2 absent. The Speaker may put forward up to four candidates; if all fail, an extra election must be held within three months. He will now consider the next steps; more information is due on Friday 16 October. Sweden stays recorded as supporting mandatory scanning until a new government states a line in the Council.Source: Riksdag, the vote and the next steps, 15 October 2026.
  • GovernmentIn Romania, Prime Minister-designate Luca Niculescu submitted his programme and list of ministers to Parliament. Proposed: Marian Neacșu (PSD), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs, and Radu Marinescu (PSD), Minister of Justice. Parliament’s leaders are to set the hearings and the investiture vote; political sources quoted by HotNews expect the vote on Tuesday 20 October.Source: HotNews.ro, 15 October 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 15 October 2026. No government changed its position between 12 and 15 October. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. No date has been published for a seventh trilogue. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881 was still not on its page on 15 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 11 October 2026. No government changed its position. The Council’s register lists no new document on the regulation since WK 15701/26 of 9 October, and the paper for the counsellors’ meeting of 20 October, WK 15702/2026, has not been issued. Sweden’s parliament has not yet voted on a new prime minister, and Romania’s has not yet voted on a new government. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881 was still not on its page on 11 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • CouncilThe Council has called the justice and home affairs counsellors to meet on the regulation on 20 October at 14:30. The notice of 9 October lists one substantive item, the “state of play of the interinstitutional negotiations and next steps”, with a paper, WK 15702/2026, marked “to be issued”.Source: Council, CM 4514/26, 9 October 2026.
  • DocumentThe Council’s register lists a new working paper on the regulation, WK 15701/26 of 9 October, “Technical discussion on a possible detection package”, for a meeting on 20 October. It is not public; the register says its content is not accessible. Detection in private messages is the question the sixth trilogue left open.Source: Council public register, file 2022/0155(COD), checked 10 October 2026.
  • AnalysisTwo new pages on the record. A record note sets out why counts of the governments against Chat Control differ: nine are on record against mandatory scanning, four voted against the Council’s mandate in November 2025, one voted against Chat Control 1.0 in July 2026, and one is on record for scanning suspects only. A blocking minority calculator applies the Council’s voting rules to the 27 records. Seven country pages now open with a short summary in the country’s language: Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain.Source: “How many governments oppose Chat Control? It depends on the question” and the blocking minority calculator, Brussels Record, 10 October 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 10 October 2026. No government changed its position. In Sweden, Expressen reported on 7 October that the Speaker is preparing a vote on Magdalena Andersson as prime minister in the week of 12 October, at the earliest on Wednesday 14 October (Nyhetsbyrån Direkt). In Romania, the vote on Luca-Alexandru Niculescu’s government has not taken place; political sources quoted by Libertatea expect it on 19 October (Ziarul Profit). Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881 was still not on its page on 10 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 9 October 2026. No government changed its position. The Council’s register lists no new document on the regulation since 1 October, and the outcome of the counsellors’ meeting of 5 October has not been published. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, due on 1 October, was still not on its page on 9 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • CheckedThis check covers 7 and 8 October. All 27 country pages checked; each now shows 8 October 2026. No government changed its position. The Council’s register lists no new document on the regulation since 1 October, and the outcome of the counsellors’ meeting of 5 October has not been published. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. Romania’s prime minister-designate, Luca-Alexandru Niculescu, has begun consultations with the parliamentary parties (Romania Insider, 8 October); Parliament has not yet voted on a cabinet. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, due on 1 October, was still not on its page on 8 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • GovernmentRomania: President Nicușor Dan designated Luca-Alexandru Niculescu as candidate for Prime Minister, after Parliament rejected Siegfried Mureșan’s cabinet on 30 September. Romania stays recorded as for; a nomination does not change a recorded position.Source: Presidency of Romania, decree of 6 October 2026.
  • GovernmentLatvia: President Edgars Rinkēvičs said he will entrust Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs with forming the next government. The formal nomination can only follow once the new Saeima has met, on 3 November, and the current government has resigned. Latvia stays recorded as for.Source: LSM, 6 October 2026.
  • CorrectionLatvia: on the provisional result, the United List won 41 of the 100 seats, not 42 as recorded on 5 October from the count at 99.9 %. Corrected on the Latvia page, in the 5 October entry below and on the homepage.Source: LSM, 5 October 2026, from the Central Election Commission’s provisional composition.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 6 October 2026. No government changed its position. The Council’s register lists no new document on the regulation since 1 October, and no outcome of the counsellors’ meeting of 5 October has been published. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, due on 1 October, was still not on its page on 6 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • CouncilThe Council’s register lists two working papers for today’s meeting of justice and home affairs counsellors on the regulation: WK 15082/26 of 30 September, “Outcome of the 6th trilogue on 29 September 2026 and way forward”, and WK 14760/26 of 25 September, “Documents for the trilogue on 29 September 2026”. Neither is public; the register says their content is not accessible.Source: Council public register, file 2022/0155(COD), checked 5 October 2026.
  • DocumentThe Council has circulated the Czech Chamber of Deputies’ resolution 107 of 17 September to the delegations as ST 13900/26 of 1 October, with an English courtesy translation. The resolution, already on Czechia’s page, rejects any form of general content detection in interpersonal communication services and any blanket undermining of end-to-end encryption.Source: Council, ST 13900/26, 1 October 2026.
  • GovernmentLatvia: in the Saeima election of 3 October, Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’s United List won 41 of the 100 seats with 35 % of the vote, on the provisional result (corrected on 6 October from 42, the count at 99.9 %). The President nominates a candidate to form the next government, which needs a majority in the Saeima. Latvia stays recorded as for, the line its delegation took in June 2026 under Kulbergs; an election alone does not change a recorded position.Source: LSM, 4 October 2026; provisional result: LSM, 5 October 2026.
  • AnalysisA record note sums up the count of 3 October: on record, one government for scanning only suspects (Poland), thirteen for keeping voluntary scanning of everyone broad, four for limits and nine with nothing on record, with the documents behind each figure.Source: “Only one of 27 governments is on record for scanning suspects only”, Brussels Record, 5 October 2026.
  • CheckedMonday check of all 27 country pages, one by one: position and evidence, minister, permanent representation and sources. No government changed its position, and no minister on the file or permanent representative changed. Added from the missions’ own pages: the deputy permanent representatives of Bulgaria, Petya Vassileva, and Cyprus, Constantinos Christofides. The Latvian election above was missed by the checks of 3 and 4 October and is added today. Each country page now shows 5 October 2026. Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is still from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, due on 1 October, was still not on its page on 5 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • CouncilThe Council’s General Secretariat has called the justice and home affairs counsellors (CSA Regulation) to meet in Brussels on Monday 5 October at 14:30. The agenda has one item on the regulation: “Outcome of the trilogue on 29 September 2026 and next steps”. No document is listed under it, and no date has been set for the next political trilogue.Source: Council, CM 4365/26, 1 October 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 4 October 2026. No government changed its position. No new document from the Parliament since its statement of 30 September; Patrick Breyer’s last post on the regulation is from 30 September and netzpolitik.org’s from 1 October. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, due on 1 October, was still not on its page on 4 October; the page still shows 24 September.

  • GovernmentSweden: on 2 October the Speaker of the Riksdag, Andreas Norlén, asked Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson to resume, from 5 October, her talks on forming a government the Riksdag can tolerate. She is to report by 12 October; a vote on the prime minister follows once the task is completed.Source: Sveriges riksdag, notice, 2 October 2026.
  • AnalysisWho is on record for scanning only people under suspicion, and who for voluntary scanning of everyone: 1 government for suspects only (Poland), 13 for keeping voluntary scanning of everyone broad, 4 for limits without asking for suspects only, and 9 with nothing on record. Each row has its source; the count is now on the governments page.Sources: German government reports published by netzpolitik.org on 20 March, 12 June and 2 July 2026; dpa, 29 September 2026.
  • GovernmentGermany, added late: on 29 September dpa reported an internal government position paper saying voluntary searching by providers must not depend on prior permission or similar restrictions; Berlin opposes search plans approved by a national judicial or independent administrative authority. We missed the report that day; it is now on Germany’s page.Source: beck-aktuell (dpa), 29 September 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 3 October 2026. No government changed its position. No new document from the Council or the Parliament since the Parliament’s statement of 30 September. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, due on 1 October, was still not on its page on the morning of 3 October; the page was last updated on 24 September. On the governments page, the button that opens the table of MEP votes had not worked since 29 September because of a stray tag; fixed on 3 October.

  • ParliamentThe Parliament published its rapporteur’s statement on the trilogue on 30 September. Javier Zarzalejos (EPP, Spain) says the two sides agreed on the tasks of the future EU Centre, so the Commission can soon launch the selection of its seat. The Centre would receive providers’ reports, check that they are not unfounded and pass them to the authorities; keep a database of indicators of known abuse material; and search publicly accessible content for known and new material, under safeguards that include guidelines drawn up with the Commission and the European Data Protection Supervisor. A fundamental rights officer would monitor the Centre, and a Victims Consultative Forum would give victims a voice. The statement does not mention detection orders. Work on the rest of the regulation continues with the Irish presidency, he says. The entry for 30 September below, which said the Parliament had published no outcome, missed this release.Source: European Parliament, press release, 30 September 2026.
  • Pressnetzpolitik.org reports that the round on 29 September brought no agreement on the central question, the scanning of private chats, and that agreement was reached only on the EU Centre, as the rapporteur announced. Some points on publicly accessible content, such as images in public cloud storage or on social media, are settled; whether detection orders would be issued by independent courts or administrative authorities, and which services they would cover, was also negotiated. No date has been set for the next political trilogue; technical negotiations run alongside the political rounds.Source: netzpolitik.org, 1 October 2026.
  • CouncilJustice ministers met in Luxembourg. The Council’s main results of the meeting do not mention the regulation; under other business, ministers heard the Commission on simplification and on pre-trial detention, and France on data retention.Source: Council of the EU, Justice and Home Affairs Council (Justice), main results, 2 October 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 2 October 2026. No government changed its position. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, due on 1 October, was still not on its page at 16:30 Brussels time on 2 October; the page was last updated on 24 September.

  • ParliamentThe Parliament’s rapporteur, Javier Zarzalejos (EPP, Spain), welcomed on 30 September the agreement reached at the trilogue of 29 September on the tasks of the future EU Centre: checking providers’ reports and passing them to the authorities, and searching public content for abuse material itself, under the oversight of a fundamental rights officer. According to Agence Europe, the agreement allows the Commission to formally launch the selection of the Centre’s seat.Source: Agence Europe, 1 October 2026; MLex, 30 September 2026.
  • PressAgence Europe reports an agreement in principle on detection orders for large platforms covering public content, and that the date of the next trilogue has not been confirmed. Former MEP Patrick Breyer wrote on 30 September that orders for public content could reach any hosting service regardless of size, and that he expects the next trilogue in November; the two accounts differ on both points. Both say private messages remain unresolved.Source: Agence Europe, 1 October 2026; Patrick Breyer, 30 September 2026.
  • CouncilHome affairs ministers met in Luxembourg. The Council’s main results of the meeting do not mention the regulation or the trilogue; under other business, ministers heard the Commission, Germany, Greece and France on other topics.Source: Council of the EU, Justice and Home Affairs Council, main results, 1 October 2026.
  • GovernmentRomania: after the vote of 30 September, President Nicușor Dan announced consultations with the parties on Monday 5 October and a new nomination for Prime Minister the same afternoon. The caretaker government stays in office meanwhile.Source: Economedia, 30 September 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 1 October 2026. No government changed its position. The Commission’s list of organisations under Regulation (EU) 2026/1881, due on 1 October, was not on its page by 16:45.

  • TrilogueFormer MEP Patrick Breyer, who campaigns against the regulation, reported that the sixth trilogue ended late on 29 September without agreement on scanning private messages: the Parliament’s negotiators refused the Council’s “search plans” and insisted that scanning of private communications stay limited to people linked to child sexual abuse. He reports a preliminary agreement on publicly accessible content only, including orders to hosting services to scan public uploads for known material, technical talks on private content in October and a new attempt at a deal in November. Neither the Council nor the Parliament had published an outcome by 17:45 Brussels time. Correction, 2 October: the Parliament had published its rapporteur’s statement that day; see 2 October.Source: Patrick Breyer, “Chat Control 2.0 Trilogue Update: No mass scanning deal for now”, 30 September 2026.
  • DocumentThe presidency’s overview for this week’s Justice and Home Affairs Council, Council document 13051/26 of 29 September, records that a trilogue “was organised on 29 September 2026 dedicated to reaching general political agreement on detection obligations and own-initiative searches”. By 7:20 Brussels time on 30 September neither the Council nor the Parliament had published its outcome.Source: Council document 13051/26, 29 September 2026.
  • CouncilThe programme for this week’s Justice and Home Affairs Council, published on 30 September, does not list the regulation as a separate item. Under any other business, in public sessions on 1 and 2 October, the presidency updates ministers on current legislative proposals; its written overview for this Council, document 13051/26, records the 29 September trilogue. Press conferences follow at about 18:00 on 1 October and 15:45 on 2 October.Source: Council media advisory, 30 September 2026.
  • GovernmentRomania: Parliament rejected the cabinet proposed by Siegfried Mureșan, with 182 votes in favour where 233 were needed. The caretaker government of Ilie Bolojan stays in office, and the country page keeps its label: Romania’s line is known only from Council minutes, and no new government has stated a position.Source: Romania Insider, 30 September 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 30 September 2026. No government changed its position.

  • GovernmentSweden: Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson said on 28 September that there is currently no possibility for her to form a government, and returned the task. The Speaker, Andreas Norlén, meets the party leaders on 30 September; the Kristersson government stays in office meanwhile, and the country page keeps its label until a new government states a position.Source: Euronews and The Local, 28 September 2026.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked; each now shows 29 September 2026. No government changed its position. By 20:00 Brussels time neither the Council nor the Parliament had published anything on the sixth trilogue, planned for today; this page is updated as soon as either does.

  • DocumentPatrick Breyer’s Chat Control page also lists a Commission presentation of 15 September, document WK 14059/26. It is not public, and its content is not known. We missed this entry yesterday; it is now in the tracker.Source: Patrick Breyer, “Chat Control”, timeline entry for 15 September 2026.
  • GovernmentThe Netherlands: in written answers of 18 September, Justice Minister David van Weel told the Tweede Kamer there is “no room” to support proposals that make end-to-end encryption impossible, impose mandatory detection on all citizens’ private communications, or require detection in encrypted services that in practice only client-side scanning could carry out.Source: Tweede Kamer, answers to MP Barbara Kathmann, 18 September 2026, translated from Dutch.
  • ParliamentCzechia: the European Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies adopted resolution 107 on 17 September. It rejects any form of general content detection in interpersonal communication services, “so-called Chat Control”, and any blanket undermining of end-to-end encryption, and supports targeted, judicially reviewable and voluntary tools.Source: Chamber of Deputies, resolution 107 (PDF), 17 September 2026, translated from Czech.
  • GovernmentRomania: Parliament votes on 30 September on the government proposed by Siegfried Mureșan, with Mircea Abrudean as Interior Minister.Source: HotNews, 25 September and 26 September 2026.
  • CorrectionPortugal: Justice Minister Rita Alarcão Júdice has been in office since 2 April 2024 and was reappointed on 5 June 2025. Until today the country page gave 5 June 2025 as her start date.Source: Portuguese government, XXIV Constitutional Government.
  • CorrectionWho decides, by name: the list of ministers on record still counted Germany and Slovenia among the governments against mandatory scanning, contrary to the count on the same page. Germany is now listed as conditional, and Slovenia with Belgium and Portugal as having no settled position. The count, nine governments with 32.9 % of the EU population, does not change.Source: Where the 27 governments stand; changelog of Chat Control: who decides, by name.
  • CorrectionTracker: the procedure steps called the Council position of 26 November 2025 a ministers’ mandate. It was agreed by member states’ representatives in the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper), not by ministers.Source: Council of the EU, press release, 26 November 2025: “EU member states’ representatives agreed on the Council position”.
  • CheckedAll 27 country pages checked against their sources; each now shows 28 September 2026. Nothing new on netzpolitik.org, on EDRi’s site or in the Council’s public register.

  • DocumentA four-column table of 11 September with the outcome of the technical meeting of 10 September, document WK 13816/26, is listed on Patrick Breyer’s Chat Control page. It is not public, and its content is not known.Source: Patrick Breyer, “Chat Control”, timeline entry for 11 September 2026.
  • CheckedNothing new in the Council’s public register, on netzpolitik.org or in EDRi’s document pool.

  • CouncilThe child sexual abuse regulation is not on the provisional agenda of the Justice and Home Affairs Council of 1 and 2 October in Luxembourg.Source: Council document CM 4127/1/26 REV 1 of 24 September 2026.
  • CommentPatrick Breyer argues that broad “search plans” covering “parts of a service” can still result in “scanning the chats of every user in the EU”.Source: Patrick Breyer, “Chat Control”, updated September 2026.

  • DocumentThe presidency’s “State of play and way forward”, document 11956/26 of 10 September, marked LIMITE, enters the record. Of the 14 governments that answered the July reflection paper, “most Member States responding are in principle opposed to the concept of targeting detection to specific users”.Source: Council document 11956/26, obtained and published by Agence Europe.

  • PressAgence Europe reports that, faced with deadlock over detection, the Irish presidency seeks to refine its approach between public and private content.Source: Agence Europe, 22 September 2026 (subscription).
  • CommentIn Sweden, Henrik Alexandersson argues that the Council’s compromise could allow continued scanning of everyone’s messages without suspicion, with authorisation given, for example, month by month.Source: Femte juli, 22 September 2026, in Swedish.

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