{"id":426548,"date":"2025-05-13T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/13\/garante-dati-guida-privacy-politiche-ue\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:55:16","slug":"european-data-protection-supervisor-issues-new-guidance-on-eu-privacy-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/13\/european-data-protection-supervisor-issues-new-guidance-on-eu-privacy-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"European Data Protection Supervisor issues new guidance on EU privacy policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Making personal data protection a concrete operational principle within European policy-making, not just a stated one. The European Data Protection Supervisor<\/strong> (EDPS) has published a new guidance<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0EU co-legislators – the Commission, Parliament, and Council – aiming to\u00a0enhance the regulatory quality of privacy<\/strong>. The document guides\u00a0how to design legislative acts involving personal data processing while fully respecting the fundamental rights guaranteed by the European legal system.<\/p>\n

In the text, the Supervisor insists on the need for legislative measures to be\u00a0clear, precise, and foreseeable, which are key elements to\u00a0ensure effective data protection against abuse and misuse. In a press release this morning (May 13), Wojciech Wiewi\u00f3rowski<\/strong>, European Data Protection Supervisor, underlined<\/a> the value of the guidance as an operational tool for European institutions: “Data protection is a central part of the Union’s policy process, but it requires clear and concrete guidelines<\/strong>. We have identified several best practices that European institutions should take into account to both meet a given legislation’s objectives\u00a0whilst maintaining a high standard of personal data protection<\/strong> for its citizens.”<\/p>\n

The heart of the guidance lies in the call for greater rigor and transparency in outlining the purposes and limits of personal data processing: <\/strong>who collects data, for what purposes, on what legal basis, for how long, and with what safeguards for data subjects. These are not just indications of principle but binding criteria<\/strong> to ensure that any legislation is compatible with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The EDPS\u00a0also calls on lawmakers to justify<\/strong> in a documented manner the necessity and proportionality of any processing envisaged<\/strong>, even when it comes to restricting certain individual rights: no exception can be accepted without a clear justification demonstrating compliance with fundamental principles.<\/p>\n

The publication of the guidance is part of the European authority’s 20th-anniversary initiatives. It aims to consolidate the role of the EDPS\u00a0as an active player in the Union’s legislative processes, not only at the monitoring stage but as a technical and institutional interlocutor. “The EDPS will continue to provide timely\u00a0recommendations every time European legislative activity will imply<\/strong> the processing of personal data,” Wiewi\u00f3rowski reiterated.<\/p>\n

At a time when Europe is being called upon to regulate increasingly complex sectors<\/strong> – from artificial intelligence to security, from digital health to cross-border data flows – the EDPS’s call for regulatory consistency and the centrality of the individual is a precise political message. It is not enough to legislate with good intentions; it must be done with method, legal expertise, and respect for the digital dignity of European citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Clear and proportionate rules” to defend citizens’ personal data. “EU institutions must follow binding criteria and justify privacy violations in decision-making and lawmaking”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":426517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710,29788],"tags":[30670,28080,27280,27282,31219,28081],"class_list":["post-426548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","category-diritti-en","tag-guarantor-european-data-protection-en","tag-dati-personali-en","tag-privacy-en","tag-web-en","tag-wojciech-wiewiorowski-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426570,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426548\/revisions\/426570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}