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Information & Ethics committee Unfortunately, the working language we use most often in our organization is English.
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee Allow me to speak to you in English.
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee It is my pleasure. Chair, and distinguished members of this committee. I really appreciate this kind invitation for me to speak to you today. Let me say that I'm very honoured. I'm not the EU legislator. I am not formally in charge of any adequacy finding. I represent an indepe
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee It's not only sunny but extremely hot.
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee This is the million-euro question. Let me say first that there is no regulated process that expresses [Inaudible--Editor] in the GDPR. We should build on the basis of the criteria. First of all, existing adequacy decisions will remain in force up until the moment they are updated
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee Yes. It's a very similar approach, and indeed, the adequacy will also relate to the law enforcement sector. This sector can be evaluated in two different areas. One is the processing of personal data by private controllers. The other is the accessing of data by police forces and
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee The police directive is in force. However, because it's a directive and not a regulation, member states have until May 6 next year—so 19 days before the full entry into force of the GDPR—to transpose it into the national system. This is because it has more implications for domest
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee This is one of the areas where we have novelties in the EU. First off, there are three important rulings from the European Court of Justice concerning independence of supervisory authorities. They relate to Germany, Hungary, and Austria. In these three cases, the countries have
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee This is a question where I risk displeasing you. Let me speak as a member of the judiciary, as I am, to say that the GDPR contains very little news on the right to be forgotten. You will not find any specific reference. If you interview the rapporteur of the Costeja González ca
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee The GDPR provisions on transfer of data apply to all controls in the public and the private area without any distinction. We have different criteria now for the assessment. They basically allow for it to say that it should be a global evaluation and not purely a legal one. The c
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee With regard to the EU position, not just the one of my institution, you may look at the latest state of the union speech by President Juncker, which says we need coherence and consistency. Europe, regarding the GDPR with the directives I mentioned, would like to have one coherent
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee Yes. We have published a paper to recommend, in case of future talks—an upgrade or very familiar existing provisions, including those in the GATT area—to assist the approach I've just described.
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee In the communication of the commission that I mentioned, they declare that on top of their priorities now, they have, for this year and early next year, Japan and South Korea. Both countries want—and this was a point discussed even at the G7 meeting in Taormina—to sign trade agre
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee Yes, it is. We would like to see how things will evolve. This was a point made for a compromise approach by member states. It could be that some countries might decide differently, although, for instance, the first piece of legislation introduced by the EU with regard to EU inst
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli
Information & Ethics committee We have not in the past been forcing third countries to copy the European Union, although an inefficient legal system is also to be dissuaded. I successfully persuaded the legislators to say that administrative fines are not to apply in a tot capita, tot sententiae approach, in t
June 13th, 2017Committee meeting
Giovanni Buttarelli