On Thursday 13 September, MEPs approved (by 527 votes for, 51 against and 27 abstentions), the interinstitutional agreement reached at the end of May (see EUROPE 12025) on the draft regulation relating to the processing of personal data by the bodies and institutions of the European Union(see EUROPE 11700).
The aim of the text was to have a level of protection for the EU institutions and bodies, equivalent to that provided by the general regulation on personal data protection, which has been...