“Industrialists and diplomats have accused MEPs of rushing through data protection laws that they say would boost their electoral chances more than Europe’s economies,” EurActiv reports. At an event in Brussels on Tuesday, policymakers and industry representatives clashed over the EU draft regulation’s timeline, the report states, citing comments by the European Commission’s Paul Nemitz indicating companies that value their customers’ needs will not have issues with the new rules. “If you are operating cross-borders, your life is likely to become easier. Why? Because in the future, we’ll have one law in form of a regulation rather than 28 implementing laws based on a directive and we will have a consistency mechanism,” Nemitz said.
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