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2022/2089(DEC) 2021 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Data Protection Supervisor

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead CONT PEKSA Mikuláš (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE) MARINESCU Marian-Jean (icon: EPP EPP), MANDA Claudiu (icon: S&D S&D), MITUȚA Alin (icon: Renew Renew), KUHS Joachim (icon: ID ID), CZARNECKI Ryszard (icon: ECR ECR), FLANAGAN Luke Ming (icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL)
Committee Opinion JURI
Committee Opinion LIBE BRICMONT Saskia (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE) José GUSMÃO (icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL), Ramona STRUGARIU (icon: RE RE)
Lead committee dossier:

Events

2023/09/29
   Final act published in Official Journal
2023/05/10
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2023/05/10
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 579 votes to 16, with 33 abstentions, to grant discharge to the European Data Protection Supervisor in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2021.

In its resolution, adopted by 577 votes to 21 with 37 abstentions, Parliament made the following observations:

Budgetary and financial management

The Supervisor's budget for 2021 amounted to EUR 19 463 193 , which represents a minimal decrease of 0.07% compared to 2020. It further notes that the budget implementation rate was 86% for the year 2021, which is a significant increase compared to 2020, when the implementation rate was 73%. In 2021, the Supervisor met or exceeded the targets set for eight of the nine key performance indicators.

Internal management, performance and control

Members acknowledge that 2021 was a challenging year, not least due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which created the immediate need to safeguard staff wellbeing and at the same time created new tasks, including the setting up the EU Digital COVID Certificate and the monitoring of Passenger Locator Forms, contact tracing apps, and other technologies used to fight against the virus, and ensuring that they were fully in line with the Union personal data protection legislation.

Parliament welcomed that the Supervisor immediately created an internal COVID-19 task force to actively monitor and assess the Union’s responses to the pandemic which has raised concerns about the protection of personal data and privacy rights of individuals.

It also welcomed that the Supervisor launched a competition to employ more specialised experts on data protection and adapted the internal organisation to reflect the increased workload on data protection. Members welcome the Supervisor’s launch of a Business Continuity and Crisis Management review exercise with relevant internal and external stakeholders following an internal assessment of the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Human resources, equality and staff well-being

At the end of 2021, the Supervisor had 132 staff members, a slight increase from the end of 2020 and a significant increase from the end of 2019 when there were 107 staff members. Members are concerned to see an increase in the number of contract staff and a decrease in the number of civil servants between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021. They encouraged the Supervisor to offer permanent contracts to its employees to guarantee business continuity and work security.

The number of EU nationalities represented in the staff had further increased to 21, compared to 20 at the end of 2020. While both senior management positions are occupied by men, women represent 75% of middle management.

Parliament welcomed the Supervisor’s focus on ensuring the mental well-being of both Supervisor and Board staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. It welcomed that the Supervisor has developed the system for flexible working arrangements and welcomed that no cases of psychological or sexual harassment were reported.

Ethical framework and transparency

The Supervisor's ethical framework, which was updated in 2019, includes, among other things, mandatory training for new staff on harassment, prevention of conflicts of interest and other ethical issues. The EDPS does not currently use the inter-institutional transparency register, but publishes on its website the EDPS' programme, recorded meetings and interventions, including meetings with interest representatives. The EDPS is invited to join the inter-institutional agreement on a mandatory transparency register.

There were no cases of staff leaving the institution in order to join the private sector in 2021 and no cases involving cooling-off periods.

Parliament also commented on digital transition, cybersecurity and data protection, buildings and security, environment and sustainability, interinstitutional cooperation and communication.

The resolution highlighted the following points in particular:

- the Supervisor continues to test and demonstrate open source tools, rather than proprietary tools, in order to maintain independence from suppliers, retain control of its technical systems, and better guarantee privacy and the protection of user data;

- it is important to adapt human and financial resources to the growing workload and to increase the Supervisor's budget: the Supervisor's workload is expected to increase further due to the growing trend towards digitalisation in the Union, the revision of the agencies' mandates and the initiatives presented by the Commission, in particular in the area of justice and home affairs, namely the opinions on Europol’s mandate, on the digital services and digital markets legislation and on the NIS 2.0 Directive, as well as the joint opinions on the artificial intelligence act and the Union's digital COVID certificate;

- the EDPS is making efforts to become a paperless institution. It continues to encourage the use of public transport, reimbursing 50% of monthly or annual season tickets;

- cooperation between the EDPS and other EU institutions, bodies and agencies, in particular the European Public Prosecutor's Office, is welcomed. The EDPS needs additional resources to monitor the European Central Bank's digital euro project. The EDPS is encouraged to continue the dialogue with Europol about the Agency's processing of large-scale data sets;

- as regards communication , the EDPS has organised several events which have helped to strengthen its role and the understanding of its mission by the general public. It prepared a public pilot phase of two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video, launched in 2022 to promote the use of decentralised, free and open technologies as alternative social networks.

Documents
2023/05/09
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2023/03/30
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary
Details

The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Mikuláš PEKSA (Greens/EFA, CZ) on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2021, section IX - European Data Protection Supervisor.

The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament give discharge to the European Data Protection Supervisor in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2021.

Budgetary and financial management

The report notes that the Supervisor's budget for 2021 amounted to EUR 19 463 193, which represents a minimal decrease of 0.07% compared to 2020. It further notes that the budget implementation rate was 86% for the year 2021, which is a significant increase compared to 2020, when the implementation rate was 73%.

Internal management, performance and control

Members acknowledge that 2021 was a challenging year, not least due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which created the immediate need to safeguard staff wellbeing and at the same time created new tasks, including the setting up the EU Digital COVID Certificate and the monitoring of Passenger Locator Forms, contact tracing apps, and other technologies used to fight against the virus, and ensuring that they were fully in line with the Union personal data protection legislation.

The report welcomes that the Supervisor immediately created an internal COVID-19 task force to actively monitor and assess the Union’s responses to the pandemic. It also welcomes that the Supervisor launched a competition to employ more specialised experts on data protection and adapted the internal organisation to reflect the increased workload on data protection. Members welcome the Supervisor’s launch of a Business Continuity and Crisis Management review exercise with relevant internal and external stakeholders following an internal assessment of the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Human resources, equality and staff well-being

At the end of 2021, the Supervisor had 132 staff members, a slight increase from the end of 2020 and a significant increase from the end of 2019 when there were 107 staff members. Members are concerned to see an increase in the number of contract staff and a decrease in the number of civil servants between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021. They encouraged the Supervisor to offer permanent contracts to its employees to guarantee business continuity and work security.

The number of EU nationalities represented in the staff had further increased to 21, compared to 20 at the end of 2020. While both senior management positions are occupied by men, women represent 75% of middle management.

The current rules allow for teleworking up to three days a week and the Supervisor is setting up a working group to develop a strategic approach to ensure that the workload is fairly distributed among staff. No cases of psychological or sexual harassment have been reported.

Ethical framework and transparency

The Supervisor's ethical framework, which was updated in 2019, includes, among other things, mandatory training for new staff on harassment, prevention of conflicts of interest and other ethical issues. The EDPS does not currently use the inter-institutional transparency register, but publishes on its website the EDPS' programme, recorded meetings and interventions, including meetings with interest representatives. The EDPS is invited to join the inter-institutional agreement on a mandatory transparency register.

The report makes the following observations, inter alia :

- the Supervisor's workload is expected to increase further due to the growing trend towards digitalisation in the Union, the revision of the agencies' mandates and the initiatives presented by the Commission, in particular in the area of justice and home affairs, namely the opinions on Europol’s mandate, on the digital services and digital markets legislation and on the NIS 2.0 Directive, as well as the joint opinions on the artificial intelligence act and the Union's digital COVID certificate. It is important to adapt human and financial resources to the growing workload and to increase the Supervisor's budget accordingly;

- the EDPS is making efforts to become a paperless institution ;

- the report welcomes the cooperation between the Supervisor in his supervisory functions and the other EU institutions, bodies and agencies, in particular the European Public Prosecutor's Office. It welcomes the Supervisor's close monitoring of the evaluation of the European Central Bank's digital euro project. It welcomes the Supervisor's proposed initiative to create a pool of experts to support national data protection authorities in their work on investigations;

- as regards communication , the EDPS has organised several events which have helped to strengthen its role and the understanding of its mission by the general public. It prepared a public pilot phase of two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video, launched in 2022 to promote the use of decentralised, free and open technologies as alternative social networks.

Documents
2023/02/28
   EP - Vote in committee
2023/02/16
   CSL - Supplementary non-legislative basic document
Documents
2023/02/02
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2023/02/01
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2022/12/16
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2022/11/11
   CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
2022/10/12
   CofA - Court of Auditors: opinion, report
2022/10/10
   EP - BRICMONT Saskia (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE
2022/09/13
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2022/07/14
   EP - PEKSA Mikuláš (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
2022/06/23
   EC - Non-legislative basic document
2022/06/23
   EC - Non-legislative basic document published

Documents

Votes

Décharge 2021: budget général de l’UE - Contrôleur européen de la protection des données - A9-0070/2023 - Mikuláš Peksa - Proposition de décision #

2023/05/10 Outcome: +: 579, 0: 33, -: 16
DE IT FR ES PL RO NL HU PT CZ BE BG SE AT IE DK HR SK LT FI LV SI EL CY EE MT LU
Total
86
63
73
50
48
28
27
18
18
21
18
15
21
17
13
13
12
13
10
13
8
8
12
6
7
5
5
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Hungary PPE

1

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Cyprus PPE

2

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1

Malta PPE

For (1)

1

Luxembourg PPE

2
icon: S&D S&D
134

Czechia S&D

For (1)

1

Belgium S&D

2

Lithuania S&D

2

Latvia S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

2

Greece S&D

1

Cyprus S&D

2

Estonia S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1
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Italy Renew

2

Poland Renew

1

Hungary Renew

1
3

Austria Renew

For (1)

1

Ireland Renew

2

Croatia Renew

For (1)

1

Lithuania Renew

1

Finland Renew

2

Latvia Renew

For (1)

1

Slovenia Renew

2

Greece Renew

1

Estonia Renew

3

Luxembourg Renew

2
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68

Italy Verts/ALE

3

Poland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Romania Verts/ALE

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Portugal Verts/ALE

1

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Belgium Verts/ALE

3

Sweden Verts/ALE

3

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Ireland Verts/ALE

2

Denmark Verts/ALE

1

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2

Finland Verts/ALE

3
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57

Germany ECR

1

Netherlands ECR

4

Bulgaria ECR

1

Sweden ECR

3

Croatia ECR

1

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1

Lithuania ECR

1

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2

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1
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Netherlands The Left

For (1)

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3

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Netherlands NI

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Abstain (1)

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1
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1

Estonia ID

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1

A9-0070/2023 - Mikuláš Peksa - Proposition de résolution #

2023/05/10 Outcome: +: 577, 0: 37, -: 21
DE IT FR PL ES RO NL HU PT CZ BG SE BE AT IE DK SK LT HR FI SI LV EL CY EE MT LU
Total
88
64
74
48
52
29
28
18
18
21
15
21
17
17
13
13
13
10
12
13
8
8
12
6
7
5
5
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Hungary PPE

1

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Cyprus PPE

2

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1

Malta PPE

For (1)

1

Luxembourg PPE

2
icon: S&D S&D
134

Czechia S&D

For (1)

1

Belgium S&D

For (1)

1

Lithuania S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

2

Latvia S&D

2

Greece S&D

1

Cyprus S&D

2

Estonia S&D

2

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1
icon: Renew Renew
92

Italy Renew

2

Poland Renew

1

Hungary Renew

1
3

Austria Renew

For (1)

1

Ireland Renew

2

Lithuania Renew

1

Croatia Renew

For (1)

1

Finland Renew

2

Slovenia Renew

2

Latvia Renew

For (1)

1

Greece Renew

1

Estonia Renew

3

Luxembourg Renew

2
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
69

Italy Verts/ALE

3

Poland Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Romania Verts/ALE

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Portugal Verts/ALE

1

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Sweden Verts/ALE

3

Belgium Verts/ALE

3

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Ireland Verts/ALE

2

Denmark Verts/ALE

1

Lithuania Verts/ALE

2

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3
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57

Germany ECR

1

Bulgaria ECR

1

Sweden ECR

3

Slovakia ECR

For (1)

1

Lithuania ECR

1

Croatia ECR

1

Finland ECR

2

Latvia ECR

For (1)

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33

Netherlands The Left

For (1)

1

Portugal The Left

3

Czechia The Left

1

Sweden The Left

For (1)

1

Belgium The Left

For (1)

1

Ireland The Left

Abstain (2)

4

Denmark The Left

1

Finland The Left

For (1)

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2
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36

France NI

Abstain (1)

3

Netherlands NI

Against (1)

1

Slovakia NI

Against (1)

Abstain (1)

2

Croatia NI

Against (1)

Abstain (1)

2

Latvia NI

Abstain (1)

1
icon: ID ID
53

Czechia ID

Against (2)

2

Austria ID

3

Denmark ID

Against (1)

1

Estonia ID

Abstain (1)

1
AmendmentsDossier
16 2022/2089(DEC)
2022/12/06 LIBE 16 amendments...
source: 739.651

History

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  • The European Parliament adopted by 579 votes to 16, with 33 abstentions, to grant discharge to the European Data Protection Supervisor in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2021.
  • In its resolution, adopted by 577 votes to 21 with 37 abstentions, Parliament made the following observations:
  • Budgetary and financial management
  • The Supervisor's budget for 2021 amounted to EUR 19 463 193 , which represents a minimal decrease of 0.07% compared to 2020. It further notes that the budget implementation rate was 86% for the year 2021, which is a significant increase compared to 2020, when the implementation rate was 73%. In 2021, the Supervisor met or exceeded the targets set for eight of the nine key performance indicators.
  • Internal management, performance and control
  • Members acknowledge that 2021 was a challenging year, not least due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which created the immediate need to safeguard staff wellbeing and at the same time created new tasks, including the setting up the EU Digital COVID Certificate and the monitoring of Passenger Locator Forms, contact tracing apps, and other technologies used to fight against the virus, and ensuring that they were fully in line with the Union personal data protection legislation.
  • Parliament welcomed that the Supervisor immediately created an internal COVID-19 task force to actively monitor and assess the Union’s responses to the pandemic which has raised concerns about the protection of personal data and privacy rights of individuals.
  • It also welcomed that the Supervisor launched a competition to employ more specialised experts on data protection and adapted the internal organisation to reflect the increased workload on data protection. Members welcome the Supervisor’s launch of a Business Continuity and Crisis Management review exercise with relevant internal and external stakeholders following an internal assessment of the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Human resources, equality and staff well-being
  • At the end of 2021, the Supervisor had 132 staff members, a slight increase from the end of 2020 and a significant increase from the end of 2019 when there were 107 staff members. Members are concerned to see an increase in the number of contract staff and a decrease in the number of civil servants between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021. They encouraged the Supervisor to offer permanent contracts to its employees to guarantee business continuity and work security.
  • The number of EU nationalities represented in the staff had further increased to 21, compared to 20 at the end of 2020. While both senior management positions are occupied by men, women represent 75% of middle management.
  • Parliament welcomed the Supervisor’s focus on ensuring the mental well-being of both Supervisor and Board staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. It welcomed that the Supervisor has developed the system for flexible working arrangements and welcomed that no cases of psychological or sexual harassment were reported.
  • Ethical framework and transparency
  • The Supervisor's ethical framework, which was updated in 2019, includes, among other things, mandatory training for new staff on harassment, prevention of conflicts of interest and other ethical issues. The EDPS does not currently use the inter-institutional transparency register, but publishes on its website the EDPS' programme, recorded meetings and interventions, including meetings with interest representatives. The EDPS is invited to join the inter-institutional agreement on a mandatory transparency register.
  • There were no cases of staff leaving the institution in order to join the private sector in 2021 and no cases involving cooling-off periods.
  • Parliament also commented on digital transition, cybersecurity and data protection, buildings and security, environment and sustainability, interinstitutional cooperation and communication.
  • The resolution highlighted the following points in particular:
  • - the Supervisor continues to test and demonstrate open source tools, rather than proprietary tools, in order to maintain independence from suppliers, retain control of its technical systems, and better guarantee privacy and the protection of user data;
  • - it is important to adapt human and financial resources to the growing workload and to increase the Supervisor's budget: the Supervisor's workload is expected to increase further due to the growing trend towards digitalisation in the Union, the revision of the agencies' mandates and the initiatives presented by the Commission, in particular in the area of justice and home affairs, namely the opinions on Europol’s mandate, on the digital services and digital markets legislation and on the NIS 2.0 Directive, as well as the joint opinions on the artificial intelligence act and the Union's digital COVID certificate;
  • - the EDPS is making efforts to become a paperless institution. It continues to encourage the use of public transport, reimbursing 50% of monthly or annual season tickets;
  • - cooperation between the EDPS and other EU institutions, bodies and agencies, in particular the European Public Prosecutor's Office, is welcomed. The EDPS needs additional resources to monitor the European Central Bank's digital euro project. The EDPS is encouraged to continue the dialogue with Europol about the Agency's processing of large-scale data sets;
  • - as regards communication , the EDPS has organised several events which have helped to strengthen its role and the understanding of its mission by the general public. It prepared a public pilot phase of two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video, launched in 2022 to promote the use of decentralised, free and open technologies as alternative social networks.
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  • The Committee on Budgetary Control adopted the report by Mikuláš PEKSA (Greens/EFA, CZ) on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2021, section IX - European Data Protection Supervisor.
  • The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament give discharge to the European Data Protection Supervisor in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2021.
  • Budgetary and financial management
  • The report notes that the Supervisor's budget for 2021 amounted to EUR 19 463 193, which represents a minimal decrease of 0.07% compared to 2020. It further notes that the budget implementation rate was 86% for the year 2021, which is a significant increase compared to 2020, when the implementation rate was 73%.
  • Internal management, performance and control
  • Members acknowledge that 2021 was a challenging year, not least due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which created the immediate need to safeguard staff wellbeing and at the same time created new tasks, including the setting up the EU Digital COVID Certificate and the monitoring of Passenger Locator Forms, contact tracing apps, and other technologies used to fight against the virus, and ensuring that they were fully in line with the Union personal data protection legislation.
  • The report welcomes that the Supervisor immediately created an internal COVID-19 task force to actively monitor and assess the Union’s responses to the pandemic. It also welcomes that the Supervisor launched a competition to employ more specialised experts on data protection and adapted the internal organisation to reflect the increased workload on data protection. Members welcome the Supervisor’s launch of a Business Continuity and Crisis Management review exercise with relevant internal and external stakeholders following an internal assessment of the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Human resources, equality and staff well-being
  • At the end of 2021, the Supervisor had 132 staff members, a slight increase from the end of 2020 and a significant increase from the end of 2019 when there were 107 staff members. Members are concerned to see an increase in the number of contract staff and a decrease in the number of civil servants between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021. They encouraged the Supervisor to offer permanent contracts to its employees to guarantee business continuity and work security.
  • The number of EU nationalities represented in the staff had further increased to 21, compared to 20 at the end of 2020. While both senior management positions are occupied by men, women represent 75% of middle management.
  • The current rules allow for teleworking up to three days a week and the Supervisor is setting up a working group to develop a strategic approach to ensure that the workload is fairly distributed among staff. No cases of psychological or sexual harassment have been reported.
  • Ethical framework and transparency
  • The Supervisor's ethical framework, which was updated in 2019, includes, among other things, mandatory training for new staff on harassment, prevention of conflicts of interest and other ethical issues. The EDPS does not currently use the inter-institutional transparency register, but publishes on its website the EDPS' programme, recorded meetings and interventions, including meetings with interest representatives. The EDPS is invited to join the inter-institutional agreement on a mandatory transparency register.
  • The report makes the following observations, inter alia :
  • - the Supervisor's workload is expected to increase further due to the growing trend towards digitalisation in the Union, the revision of the agencies' mandates and the initiatives presented by the Commission, in particular in the area of justice and home affairs, namely the opinions on Europol’s mandate, on the digital services and digital markets legislation and on the NIS 2.0 Directive, as well as the joint opinions on the artificial intelligence act and the Union's digital COVID certificate. It is important to adapt human and financial resources to the growing workload and to increase the Supervisor's budget accordingly;
  • - the EDPS is making efforts to become a paperless institution ;
  • - the report welcomes the cooperation between the Supervisor in his supervisory functions and the other EU institutions, bodies and agencies, in particular the European Public Prosecutor's Office. It welcomes the Supervisor's close monitoring of the evaluation of the European Central Bank's digital euro project. It welcomes the Supervisor's proposed initiative to create a pool of experts to support national data protection authorities in their work on investigations;
  • - as regards communication , the EDPS has organised several events which have helped to strengthen its role and the understanding of its mission by the general public. It prepared a public pilot phase of two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video, launched in 2022 to promote the use of decentralised, free and open technologies as alternative social networks.
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