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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12866
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SECTORAL POLICIES / Home affairs

Europol ordered by EDPS to comply with deletion of personal data of persons not related to crime

On Monday 10 January, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) asked the police cooperation agency Europol to delete data on individuals who have no established link to criminal activity, asking that they comply with a previous request made in September 2020, the EDPS said in a statement.

 

“In the context of its enquiry, the EDPS admonished Europol in September 2020 for the continued storage of large volumes of data with no Data Subject Categorisation (e.g. by categories of...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: EU institutions hail David Sassoli as a passionate Europeanist and a fundamentally good man
EU2022FR: Charles Michel and Emmanuel Macron in unison on ‘European sovereignty’, Ukraine and Africa
FUTURE OF EU: some 200 European citizens adopt 51 recommendations for future of EU on climate, environment and health issues
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Strategic Compass, Eastern Neighbourhood, China and Africa on Gymnich agenda
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: EU strongly condemns rhetoric of 9 January celebrations
SECURITY - DEFENCE
DEFENCE: third-party activities in theatres of operations, contested strategic areas, and ‘Strategic Compass’ on agenda of informal meeting of EU defence ministers
SECTORAL POLICIES
INTERNAL MARKET: Thierry Breton outlines future Single Market Emergency Instrument
MIGRATION: in European Parliament’s Legal Service’s opinion, Member States may decide on special derogations in times of emergency but must justify them
MIGRATION: UNHCR hopes French Presidency of EU Council will make progress on sustainable asylum reform
HOME AFFAIRS: Europol ordered by EDPS to comply with deletion of personal data of persons not related to crime
JUSTICE: EDPS reprimands European Parliament for internal anti-Covid testing site and data transfer to USA
DIGITAL: legislation on Digital Markets Act, EU Council and European Parliament start negotiations
CLIMATE: MEP Cyrus Engerer delivers draft report on revision of ETS market stability reserve
CLIMATE/FINANCE: ‘Platform on Sustainable Finance’ welcomes extension of consultation on inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear in EU taxonomy
AGRICULTURE: European Commission puts pressure on EU countries lagging behind regarding CAP strategic plans
AGRICULTURE: European Commission seeks to reassure MEPs on future EU-India trade deal
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
STATE AID: European Commission consults on new rules for agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: MEP Helmut Geuking suggests giving €50 per birth in EU
NEWS BRIEFS
MYANMAR: EEAS deplores four-year prison sentence for Aung San Suu Kyi
CHINA: Taiwan to mobilise one billion dollars in credit to support trade with Lithuania
TRADE: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala urges WTO members to agree on patents on Covid-19 vaccines
COURT OF AUDITORS: MEPs suggest refusing to reappoint Marek Opiola of Poland
ENERGY: nuclear power provided almost 25% of electricity produced in EU in 2020, according to Eurostat
SPACE: CNES Chairman calls for European human spaceflight programmes
RULE OF LAW: enforcement of financial penalty payments, Poland has responded to European Commission in a timely manner
FINANCE: European Commission and OECD-INFE publish a joint framework for improving individuals’ financial literacy
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Greens/EFA MEPs nominate Alice Kunkhe as candidate for European Parliament President
CSDP: two new EU Force Commanders for Atalanta and EUFOR Althea
REGIONS: nine fact sheets on impact of pandemic on outermost regions