Alongside its analysis and open letter on the ‘omnibus’ legislation to simplify digital regulation proposed by the European Commission (see other news), the association Noyb has made public an EU Council document listing the positions of nine Member States on the changes to be made to the Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (see EUROPE 13747/1).
With the exception of Germany, all of them are opposed to a total reopening of the regulation. The Czech Republic believes that the amendments should be highly targeted and “respect the systematic structure of the General Regulation”.
Estonia and Austria are both of the opinion that the GDPR “does not require any further amendments for the time being”.
France does not wish to see the regulation reopened, but is calling for “efforts to harmonise and implement the text”, with the publication of specific guidelines if necessary. The same goes for Warsaw, which considers it important to “strengthen the role of the EDPB in harmonisation and interpretation”.
Slovenia is very much opposed to the idea of relaxing the obligations in the text, particularly without a prior impact study, even in order to reduce the administrative burden.
Finland says it is “ready” to discuss possible adjustments, once again to reduce the obligations of micro-enterprises and SMEs, but believes that the GDPR is “still relevant” in its current form.
Lastly, Sweden is only in favour of highly targeted changes, such as to the rules on data transfers to third countries or companies’ documentation obligations.
Germany, for its part, believes that the proposed simplifications “do not go far enough”. It justifies the exclusion from the scope of the GDPR of certain companies that process “low-risk” data, and wants to amend several articles relating to reporting obligations and citizens’ requests for access to data.
Berlin is also pointing the finger at the problems posed by AI and its use of personal data to train general models, asking the Commission to consider adjustments to the GDPR on this point (see EUROPE 13744/6).
See the document: https://aeur.eu/f/jdp (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)