Garante Europeo per la privacy: consultazione pubblica per le Linee Guida sulla proporzionalità delle misure che limitano il diritto alla protezione dei dati personali.

As the independent advisor to the EU institutions and bodies under Regulation (EU) 1725/2018 on all matters concerning processing of personal data, the European Data Protection Supervisor (hereinafter, ‘the EDPS’) intends to issue Guidelines for assessing the proportionality of measures that limit the fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data (hereinafter, ‘the Guidelines’: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/publications/guidelines/edps-guidelines-assessing-proportionality-measures_en).

The Guidelines complement the EDPS Necessity Toolkit  and specify, having regard to the fundamental right to the protection of personal data enshrined under Article 8 of the Charter, the more wide-ranging guidance by the Commission and the Council to check compatibility of legislative measures with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

Through this exercise, the EDPS aims at assisting EU institutions and bodies in the task of ensuring that any limitation of the fundamental right to the protection of personal data is compliant with the requirements of EU primary law.

Before issuing the Guidelines in their final version, the EDPS is launching a stakeholders’ consultation on the draft version of the Guidelines, which you can find hereunder.

The deadline for receiving your input is 4 April 2019. The replies to the consultation should be sent to the Policy and Consultation Unit of the EDPS: POLICY-CONSULT@edps.europa.