Activities of Saskia BRICMONT related to 2023/2138(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget for the financial year 2022, Section IX – European Data Protection Supervisor
Amendments (4)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Welcomes that this conference contributed to the Commission proposal for a Regulation laying down additional procedural rules relating to the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation1a; points out that once that procedures Regulation is adopted, the secretariat of the European Data Protection Board, which is provided by the EDPS, will need significant staff reinforcement; _________________ 1a COM(2023)348
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the training provided to EUIs, the Memorandum of Understanding signed by EDPS and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in December 2022; welcomes specifically the EDPS’s participation in the Coordinated Supervision Committee (CSC) ensuring the coordinated supervision of Europol, Eurojust and EPPO; underlines the importance of EDPS supervision and enforcement work to ensure that EUIs operating in the police and justice area fully comply with the applicable EU data protection acquis; recalls that on 1 April 2022, the EDPS issued a reprimand to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) for moving to the cloud without proper data protection assessment, in breach of the Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2018/1725;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. NotStresses the follow-up done by the EDPS regarding the citizen’s data access request; highlights that EDPS issued a decision in the case before all facts had been checked and established; notes with concern that the EDPS decision has been challenged by both the complainant and Europol; acknowledges that the EDPS review is currently suspended due to the matter being heard by a national Court; urges EDPS to review its rules of procedure of ensuring and timely review of complaints by citizens, taking into account all relevant information and to inform the discharge authority on the progress made in this areaimportance to adapt human and financial resources to the increasing EDPS workload and to increase the Supervisor's budget accordingly; recognises the need for additional technical qualified employees to ensure the proper follow-up of the EDPS tasks, including citizen’s data access request;