#PrivacyCamp23 - Saving GDPR enforcement thanks to procedural harmonisation: Great, but how exactly?
Channel: European Digital Rights
Date: 2023-03-08

Lisette Mustert focused on the cooperation between the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) with national authorities to highlight how cross-border handling of data occurs and express the need for a new set of rules that will clarify the existing uncertainties. To reach a consensual outcome, lead authorities need to assist each other. The cooperation process is complex and slow and it may deprive parties of their procedural rights, which does not lead to protection of digital rights or admin rights or defence rights based on how the GDPR system is designed.

Gwendal Le Grand explained that not all authorities are always in agreement in terms of the interpretation of the law and decisions. Then we enforce dispute enforce mechanism. To that, Romain Robert gave the example of the Meta complain EDRi member noyb submitted and the many procedural issues along the way. Maria Magierska highlighted the capacity and resources limitations of Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), which should be seen as a structural problem and not an individual problem.

In their wishes of what could solve the harmonisation issue of the GDPR, the speakers mentioned the implementation of the principal of good governance, implementation of the full law, DPAs to work as fast as the EDP, make the regulation as clear as possible.

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