25/05/23 (Agence Europe) – The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) appointed its new chair on Thursday 25 May. Ana Talus, President of the Finnish Data Protection Authority, will replace Andrea Jelinek for the next five years. “Part of the newly adopted EU digital legislation overlaps with the GDPR. Going forward, it is crucial to ensure that the legal framework related to the data protection is coherent, that the competences of the EDPB are safeguarded and that fragmentation is avoided”, she said, as she took office on the fifth anniversary of the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Ms Talus was elected with 19 votes out of 27. The EDPB also appointed Irene Loizidou Nikolaidou (Cypriot) as its Vice-Chair, replacing Ventsislav Karadjov (Bulgarian). (HS)