Monthly Archives: January 2012

It’s official: some initial reactions to the draft DP Regulation

Claire Walker | Published: January 25, 2012
So, the reports that we would not see the detail of the reforms until March proved unfounded. The official publication of the Commission’s DP reform proposals earlier today, exactly on schedule,  cannot have escaped the notice of Datonomy readers. (But just in case, the link to the package of new measures is here .) The centre [...]
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DP reform package still on for 25 Jan, despite delay rumours?

Claire Walker | Published: January 18, 2012
If , like this Datonomist, you have been trying to make sense of the conflicting reports about  delays – or otherwise – to publication of the draft DP Regulation, then this report  just posted byEuractiv.com confidently predicts the publication of a “package” comprising a communication, a regulation, a directive and a technical report on the 25 [...]
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EU draft data protection regulation: political discussions have started in Germany

Christina Motejl | Published: January 17, 2012
The draft data protection regulation of the European Commission that had leaked in early December has been widely criticised by the German Minister of the Interior and aFederal Constitutional Court judge. The points of concern were not the new and mainly stricter rules of the draft regulation, but that the European Commission chose a regulation [...]
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