On her return to Brussels after three days in Japan for a number of meetings to speed up the political and technical dialogue for an adequacy decision on data protection (see EUROPE 11927), the European Commissioner for Justice, Vĕra Jourová, provided her account of the discussions on Monday 18 December.
The Commissioner was clearly optimistic and indicated that she had returned with a “realistic plan" to finalise discussions next year. She explained that ideally, they would have an...