The management of the National Center for Personal Data Protection participated at the 69th 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 69th Plenary Session of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which was held on 12-13 September at Brussels, Belgium.
During the Plenary, the EDPB adopted several documents, among which:
- A Statement on the European Commission’s proposal for an EU Police Cooperation Code. This proposal aims to enhance law enforcement cooperation across Member States, in particular the information exchange between the competent authorities. The code is comprised of three main measures: proposal for a Prüm II Regulation, proposal for a Police Information Exchange Directive and the proposal for a Council Recommendation on operational police cooperation.
- EDPB decided upon the topic for its second coordinated enforcement action, which will concern the designation and position of the data protection officer. In a coordinated action, the EDPB prioritises a certain topic for data protection authorities (DPAs) to work on at the national level. The results of these national actions are then bundled and analysed, generating deeper insight into the topic and allowing for targeted follow-up on both the national and the EU level. This new coordinated action follows the EDPB’s decision to set up a Coordinated Enforcement Framework (CEF) in October 2020. The CEF is a key action of the EDPB under its 2021-2023 Strategy, together with the creation of a Support Pool of Experts. The two initiatives aim to streamline enforcement and cooperation among DPAs.
- The EDPB met with representatives from civil society organisations to discuss the challenges posed to enforcement cooperation by different procedural approaches in national law. This is a next step towards the EDPB’s objective to develop an overview of such challenges, as set out in its Vienna Statement on enforcement cooperation.
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.