The EDPB announces new initiatives to make GDPR compliance easier and strengthen cooperation between supervisors.
Although the GDPR law has been in effect since 2018, many organizations still do not know what their obligations are. Especially after a data breach, panic often reigns. The European Data Protection Board, the umbrella body of privacy supervisors (EDBP), organized a summit in Helsinki to examine how GDPR compliance can be made easier.
Template for Data Breaches
New tools emerged from the two-day meeting to better support micro, small and medium-sized organizations. For example, the EDPB is working on ready-made templates for data breach notifications to data protection authorities. There will also be practical checklists, manuals and frequently asked questions to help companies better understand their obligations.
If your organization experiences a data breach, you are legally obliged under the GDPR law to report it to the local data protection authority. For Belgian companies for example, this authority is the GBA. However, what and when to communicate is not always clear to companies in the heat of the moment.
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International Cooperation
The EDPB also wants to bring supervisors closer together across borders. For example, the organization wants to draw up joint guidelines and share experiences on practical and legal issues. The supervisors will also be invited to relevant EDPB meetings from now on. This should strengthen the coherence between different European rules.
Consequently, this should also make it easier for organizations to comply with legal obligations. National supervisors collect their positions and court rulings in publications that should give organizations more clarity. Guidelines are regularly evaluated and revised if necessary. For strategic, cross-border topics, the EDPB wants countries to prepare joint positions more quickly.