New model of governance and accountability of data protection by Union institutions and bodies. Substitute Impact Assessment

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Series Details October 2017
Publication Date October 2017
ISBN 978-92-846-1980-1
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Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.In the framework of its consideration of the European Commission’s proposal on the processing of personal data by Union institutions and bodies, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs requested an impact assessment of three specific aspects of that proposal.

These aspects concerned:

(1) the impact of the new model of governance and accountability of data protection on Union institutions and bodies;
(2) the implication of this new model in terms of budget and human resources; and
(3) the risks generated by the decentralised model in terms of consistency and uniform application of the Regulation within Union institutions and bodies performing several processing activities by different controllers.

The study considers the short term implications of the new governance model with regard to increased workload (for both data controllers and data protection officers) and additional investments in terms of budget and human resources. It concludes that it will only be once the 'initial period of application' has been completed that it will be possible to reasonably assess the final impact of the new model of governance and accountability on Union institutions and bodies.

As for decentralisation, it considers that the proposal appears to contain adequate safeguards to offset the risks in terms of consistency and uniform application of the Regulation.

Source Link http://dx.publications.europa.eu/10.2861/657697
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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, October 2017: New model of governance and accountability of data protection by Union institutions and bodies. Substitute Impact Assessment http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/610997/EPRS_STU(2017)610997_EN.pdf

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