Privacy in the EU Institutions

Guidelines concerning the processing of health data in the workplace by Community institutions and bodies

Opinion of 24 September 2009 on the notification for prior checking regarding FRA's selection and recruitment of its temporary and contractual agents (Case 2008-589)

This Report, which covers 2008 as the fourth full year of activity of the EDPS, concludes the first EDPS mandate and provides an opportunity to take stock of developments since the start.

The report shows that significant progress was achieved both in the EDPS supervisory and advisory tasks. Most Community institutions and bodies are making good progress in ensuring compliance with data protection rules, but there are still great challenges ahead. The EDPS supervision work is therefore putting more emphasis on measuring the level of compliance in practice, in particular through more systematic verifications on the spot, and on monitoring the implementation of recommendations in prior checking.

The EDPS also further improved his performance as an advisor to the European institutions and submitted opinions on an increasing number of legislative proposals. The majority of the EDPS opinions continued to concern issues related to the area of freedom, security and justice. Other subjects, such as e-privacy, public access to documents, the establishment of information systems and access to those systems, cross-border healthcare and new technologies were also quite prominent.

You can obtain a paper version of this Annual Report on EU Bookshop.

Letter regarding a consultation on special ID cards issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for non Portuguese staff

Opinion of 21 September 2009 on the notification for prior checking on the "Disciplinary Board" case (Case 2009-087)