Following many years of intense political debate on data protection in the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will finally become law across the EU in May 2018 and is designed to be the cornerstone of data protection in Europe. It sets out directly applicable rules on the rights of data subjects, the duties of those organisations that demand the processing of personal data and those that do the processing (data controllers and processors), international data transfers and the powers of supervisory authorities.
EDPS Opinion 36/2023 on the Proposal for a Regulation on compulsory licensing for crisis management.
EDPS Formal comments on the draft Proposal for a Commission Implementing Regulation laying down implementing technical standards for the application of Article 15(1) of Directive (EU) 2021/2167 with regard to the templates to be used by credit institutions for the provision to buyers of information on their credit exposures in the banking book.
In this issue, catch up on the EDPS' organisational changes, the Supervisor's visit to Japan for his participation in the G7 roundtable of data protection and privacy authorities, our latest Supervisory Opinions and audits, and find out how you can put data protection into practice. This issue is also part of our podcast series, the Newsletter Digest.
On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the entry into application of the General Data Protection Regulation, the European Data Protection Supervisor, the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, and the Bavarian Data Protection Commissioner organise the high-level event: “5th Anniversary of the GDPR: Still a benchmark in the EU digital landscape?”.
Presentation of the EDPS Annual Report 2022 at Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Brussels, Belgium