Key developments
- 🇪🇺 Regulation (EU) 2025/2518 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2025 laying down additional procedural rules on the enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
Also this year
- 🇪🇺 21/05/2025: The European Commission publishes:
- Communication ‘A Competitiveness Compass for the EU‘ (COM(2025) 30 final), Brussels, 29.1.2025.
- the ‘Omnibus IV Simplification Package‘.
CJEU
- 04/09/2025: EDPS v Single Resolution Board, C-413/23 P.
Council of the EU
- 🇪🇺 Some relevant developments:
- 06/10/2025: Council position and findings on the evaluation and review of the Law Enforcement Directive (LED) – Revised Presidency draft (WK 12924 2025 INIT).
- 07/10/2025: Easing administrative burdens related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Discussion paper (WK 12926 2025 INIT).
- 13/10/2025: Omnibus simplification legislative packages – Progress report (ST 13787 2025 INIT).
- 31/10/2025: Future rules on data retention in the European Union – Compilation of comments (WK 13500 2025 INIT).
- 07/11/2025: Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down additional procedural rules on the enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (first reading) – Adoption of the legislative act = Statements (ST 14842 2025 ADD 1).
- 14/11/2025: Way forward for a simplified application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – State of play (ST 15421 2025 INIT) (not available online).
- 20/11/2025: Council position and findings on the evaluation and review of the LED – Approval (ST 15616 2025 INIT).
- 21/11/2025: Omnibus VII: Digital Omnibus – Presentation by the Commission (AGS on 21 November) (WK 15969 2025 INIT).
- 21/11/2025: Way forward for a simplified application of the GDPR – State of play (ST 15421 2025 REV 1).
- 28/11/2025: Omnibus VII (Digital Omnibus and Digital Omnibus on AI) – compiled comments (ddl 26/11) (WK 16524 2025 INIT).
- 01/12/2025: Omnibus VII: Digital Omnibus – Presentation by the Commission (AGS on 1 December) (WK 16586 2025 INIT)
- 01/12/2025: Omnibus VII (Digital Omnibus and Digital Omnibus on AI) – compiled comments (ddl 26/11) (WK 16524 2025 ADD 1).
- 02/12/2025: Omnibus VII: Digital Omnibus – Presentation by the Commission (AGS on 1 December) (WK 16586 2025 REV 1).
- 08/12/2025: Omnibus VII (Digital Omnibus and Digital Omnibus on AI) – compiled comments (ddl 05/12) (WK 17004 2025 INIT).
- 09/12/2025: Omnibus VII (Digital Omnibus and Digital Omnibus on AI) – compiled comments (ddl 05/12) (WK 17004 2025 ADD 1).
- 10/12/2025: Omnibus VII (Digital Omnibus and Digital Omnibus on AI) – compiled comments (ddl 05/12) (WK 17004 2025 ADD 2).
- 15/12/2025: Omnibus VII: Digital Omnibus – Presentation by the Commission (AGS on 12 December) (WK 17297 2025 INIT).
- 23/12/2025: Omnibus VII (Digital Omnibus) – compiled comments (ddl 18/12) (WK 17677 2025 INIT).
ECtHR
- 2025:
EDPB
- 17/01/2025: Position paper on Interplay between data protection and competition law.
- 03/07/2025: The Helsinki Statement on enhanced clarity, support and engagement.
- 08/07/2025: EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 01/2025 on the Proposal for a Regulation on simplification measures for SMEs and SMCs.
Annual reports:
- European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Annual Report 2025: Protecting people in a changing digital world.
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