European Data Protection Supervisor

European Data Protection Supervisor
since 6 December 2019
NominatorEuropean Commission
AppointerEuropean Parliament and Council
Constituting instrumentRegulation (EU) 2018/1725
Formation17 January 2004
First holderPeter Hustinx
Websiteedps.europa.eu

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is an independent supervisory authority whose primary objective is to monitor and ensure that European institutions and bodies respect the right to privacy and data protection when they process personal data and develop new policies.[1]

Wojciech Wiewiórowski has been appointed European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) by a joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council.[2] Appointed for a five-year term, he took office on 6 December 2019.

Regulation (EU) 2018/1725[3] describes the duties and powers of the European Data Protection Supervisor (Chapter VI) as well as the institutional independence of the EDPS as a supervisory authority. It also lays down the rules for data protection in the EU institutions.

  1. ^ "About | European Data Protection Supervisor". edps.europa.eu. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference 32014D0886 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (Text with EEA relevance.), 21 November 2018, retrieved 9 October 2019