The management of the National Center for Personal Data Protection participated at the 57th Plenary Session of the European Data Protection Board

The National Center for Personal Data Protection (NCPDP), for information purpose, communicates about the participation of National Center for Personal Data Protection management at the 57th Plenary Session of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which was held on 18 November 2021, at Brussels, Belgium.

During the Plenary, the EDPB adopted several documents, among which:

·        Guidelines on the interplay between Art. 3 and Chapter V GDPR. By clarifying the interplay between the territorial scope of the GDPR (Art. 3) and the provisions on international transfers in Chapter V, the Guidelines aim to assist controllers and processors in the EU in identifying whether a processing operation constitutes an international transfer, and to provide a common understanding of the concept of international transfers. The Guidelines will be subject to public consultation until the end of January.

·        Statement on the European Commission’s Digital Services Package and Data Strategy. In its statement, the EDPB reiterates its call for a ban on any use of Artificial Intelligence for an automated recognition of human features in publicly accessible spaces and urges the co-legislator to consider a phase-out leading to a prohibition of targeted advertising on the basis of pervasive tracking while the profiling of children should overall be prohibited.

·        Finally, the EDPB nominated two representatives from the Belgian and Hessen (DE) SA to take part in the 6th Joint Review of the EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) Agreement.

The NCPDP, as national supervisory authority for personal data processing, emphasizes the importance of the participation of the Republic of Moldova in the Plenary Sessions organized by the EDPB, as well as the weight of adopted documents.