EU RESPONSE TO COVID-19 / Justice

For data protection supervisors, one-year extension of EU Covid certificate regulation seems to be limited to what is necessary

Brussels, 16/03/2022 (Agence Europe)

The EDPB and the EDPS, the European Data Protection Board and the European Data Protection Supervisor, adopted on Wednesday 16 March a joint opinion on the Commission’s proposals to extend the current EU Covid digital certificate regulation by 12 months.

While the EU Council has adopted its mandate (see EUROPE B12905A16), both bodies say they understand the need to extend the applicability of the regulation “given the impossibility of predicting a possible prolongation of the...