EU Privacy, Data and Consumer Legislative Updates of the Past Month

Date: October 29, 2021

In Case You Missed It: EU Privacy, Data and Consumer Legislative Updates of the Past Month

 

Date	Tag	News	Link to Source
October 28	Cybersecurity	European Parliament adopts position on Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (“NIS2 Directive”) and starts negotiations with Council	link
October 20	AI	European Commission launches public consultation ending on January 10 on the rules on compensation for damage caused by defective products with a specific focus on AI	link and link
October 19	Cybersecurity	European Commission invites the EU and Member States to further develop the EU cybersecurity crisis management framework, including by exploring the potential of building a joint cyber unit to tackle the rising number of serious cyber incidents impacting public services, businesses and citizens across the EU	link
October 19	Cybersecurity	European Commission will propose a European Cyber Resilience Act to establish common cybersecurity standards, and begin building an EU space-based global secure communications system to provide additional EU-wide broadband connectivity and secure independent communications to Member States	link
October 13	Data Protection – Other	European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issues guidelines on restrictions under Article 23 GDPR (i.e., restrictions will be defined as any limitation of scope of the obligations and rights provided for in Articles 12 to 22 and 34 GDPR as well as corresponding provisions of Article 5 in accordance with Article 23 GDPR)	link
October 13	Children Data	EDPB will adopt guidelines on children’s data	link
October 13	Personal Data Transfers	EDPB will adopt guidelines regarding the relationship between the GDPR’s extraterritorial reach and data transfer restrictions.  EDPB announced that the European Commission will develop a new set of standard contractual clauses for data transfers from the EEA to a non-EEA entity that is subject to the extra-territorial scope of the GDPR.	link
October 13	Digital Services	EDPB will adopt statement on overarching concerns regarding legislative proposals in Digital Services Package	link
October 12	Cybersecurity	European Parliament adopts position on new rules on EU critical infrastructure entities	link
October 7	AI	European Consumer Organization (“BEUC”) issues position paper on the AI Act	link
October 6	AI	European Parliament adopts resolution on AI in criminal law and its use by the police and judicial authorities in criminal matters	link
October 1	Open Data	Council of the EU approves version of the Data Governance Act, which will now be negotiated with the European Parliament	link and link

 

What’s Coming Next

• Negotiations on the Data Governance Act between Parliament and the Council are scheduled for November 9, and early December (see here)
• Council of the EU is preparing position on the evaluation and findings on the application of the Directive (EU) 2016/680 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties (see here)

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