Activities of Saskia BRICMONT related to 2021/2114(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020, Section IX –European Data Protection Supervisor
Amendments (4)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. RegretNotes that the Court of Auditors’ (the Court’s) report on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2020 does not contain any remarks about the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS);
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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3. Highlights the key role of the EDPS in the Union justice and home affairs framework, ensuring the full respect for the right of privacy and data protection; notes the numerous unparalleled questions the EDPS was fa by Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies; appreciates the work of the EDPS with regards to monitoring and ensuring complianced with in its supervisory role with regards todata protection rules by Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies, such as Europol, Eurojust and the European Public Prosecutor’'s Office (the EPPO); appreciates the support offered by the EDPS to the EPPO with regards to the establishment of its personal data procreminds that the workload of the EDPS has increased in the last years and is expected to further increase due to the growing digitalisation trend in the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies, as well as the revision of the mandates of the bodies, offices and agencies and the initiatives presented by the Commission; underlines the importance of the budget of the EDPS matching its tasks and prioritiess ing rules; order to enable the EDPS to fulfil the duties entrusted to it;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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4. Welcomes the EDPS response to the new privacy and data protection challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, namely immediately establishing an internal task force to actively monitor and assess governmental and private responses to the outbreakfollow developments and to prepare for the future of data protection and privacy after the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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5. Welcomes the EDPS Strategy 2020-2024 and the supervisory and advisory role that the EDPS fulfils, especially sharing knowledge on monitoring Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies’ compliance with the “Schrems II” judgement1 in relation to transfers of personal data to third countries. _________________ 1Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 16 July 2020, Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems, C-311/18, ECLI:EU:C:2020:559.