Règlement (UE) 2018/1725

The EDPS Annual Report 2025 looks back over a year when our work was characterised by the operationalisation of our expanding mandate, guided by our strategic principles: Foresight, Action and Solidarity.

This year’s highlights include:

• the expansion of the AI Unit and activities;
• a record 145 legislative consultations;
• increased scrutiny of international data transfers and large-scale IT systems in the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies;
• analysis and foresight related to emerging technologies.

The digital future is here. We are guiding the EU administration through this transformation with expertise and an unwavering focus on your rights.

EDPS Decision 46/2026 authorises the use of an administrative arrangement based on the EDPS Model Administrative Arrangement for transfers of personal data from the European Medicines Agency to the Council of Europe European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare, pursuant to Article 48(3)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. The authorisation concerns transfers of personal data in the in the context of the Cooperation Agreement between the parties on the sampling and testing programme for medicines.

Supervisory Opinion 07/2026 on the draft internal rules concerning the provision of information to data subjects and the restriction of certain data subjects’ rights in relation to the processing of personal data by the European Commission for the purpose of the investigation, enforcement and monitoring under the foreign subsidies regulation (case 2026-0397).

Supervisory Opinion 06/2026 on the draft internal rules concerning the provision of information to data subjects and the restriction of certain data subjects’ rights in relation to the processing of personal data by the European Commission for the purpose of the investigation, enforcement and monitoring under the Digital Markets Act (Case 2026-0326).