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EDPS

The EU's independent data protection authority, ensuring EU institutions respect privacy rights when processing personal data.

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The EU's independent data protection authority, ensuring EU institutions respect privacy rights when processing personal data.

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About European Data Protection Supervisor

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is the EU's independent data protection authority, headquartered in Brussels. Established by Regulation (EC) 45/2001 (replaced by Regulation (EU) 2018/1725) and operational since 17 January 2004, the EDPS supervises the processing of personal data by EU institutions, bodies, offices, and agencies. The Supervisor (Wojciech Wiewiórowski since December 2019) is appointed by the European Parliament and the Council for a five-year renewable term. The EDPS employs around 110 staff and is one of the EU's smallest institutions by headcount. It chairs the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) secretariat, which is the body where national data protection authorities coordinate enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Working at European Data Protection Supervisor

Working at the EDPS is law-and-policy intensive: the institution's role is to scrutinise the data‑protection compliance of all EU institutions and agencies (including the Commission, EEAS, Europol, Frontex, Eurojust, and others), to investigate complaints from EU staff and citizens, to consult on EU legislative proposals with data‑protection implications, and to support the European Data Protection Board secretariat on cross‑EU GDPR enforcement issues. Staff are predominantly lawyers (specialising in EU data protection law, EU AI law, the EU AI Act's interaction with data protection, and large‑scale IT system law‑enforcement aspects), IT specialists with privacy engineering backgrounds, and policy officers. English and French are both working languages, with English dominant in operational work and French in management.

Mission and mandate

The EDPS was established by Regulation (EC) 45/2001 of 18 December 2000 (the EU's first own data protection regulation, applying to the EU institutions themselves), which was repealed and replaced by Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of 23 October 2018 in alignment with the GDPR. The Supervisor and the Assistant Supervisor are appointed by joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council for a five-year renewable term. The current Supervisor is Wojciech Wiewiórowski (since 6 December 2019, reappointed for a second term in 2024 running to 2029). The Assistant Supervisor post is vacant or filled depending on the cycle.

The EDPS has six core functions: (1) supervision of EU institutions, monitoring data processing operations across all EU bodies, conducting on‑spot inspections, handling complaints from EU staff and citizens about EU institutional processing, and issuing decisions (including reprimands, orders, and administrative fines) under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725; (2) consultation on EU legislative proposals, issuing formal opinions on Commission proposals with data‑protection implications, a major workstream covering proposals in security, migration, finance, digital, and AI; (3) European Data Protection Board secretariat, providing the operational secretariat to the EDPB, which is composed of the heads of national DPAs and acts as the coordination body for GDPR enforcement across the EU; (4) IT supervision and large‑scale databases, supervising EU centralised databases (SIS, VIS, Eurodac, EES, ETIAS, ECRIS‑TCN) and the EU eIDAS infrastructure; (5) cooperation with national DPAs, coordinating cross‑border GDPR cases involving EU bodies and national authorities; (6) thought leadership on emerging issues, AI, neurotechnology, generative AI, behavioural advertising, data brokers.

The EDPS's powers under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 include investigative powers (access to any information necessary for the performance of its tasks, on‑site inspections), corrective powers (warnings, reprimands, orders to comply, temporary or de