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Europe Data Protection Digest | Notes from the IAPP Europe Managing Director, October 24, 2014 Related reading: IAPP Westin Scholar finds evolving privacy law 'exciting'

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They say that a watched pot never boils, and 2014 has possibly been a demonstration of that. Just a year ago, the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee approved the Albrecht report amending the commission’s proposal for a comprehensive reform of the 1995 Data Protection Directive. At that point, all eyes were on Brussels, and it looked as though the reform should come any day. Expectations were reignited when the European Parliament approved the Albrecht report by voting in plenary in March. After March, however, the debate quieted down and things looked frozen for a bit.

A year after the LIBE Committee approved the report, the focus on the reform of EU data protection legislation is stronger than ever and some of the uncertainties that have dominated 2014 seem to be crystallising. The EU underwent major changes in the meantime: a new Parliament, characterised by the emergence of Eurosceptic groups, a new commission, challenged by the Eurosceptics, and a new president of the European Council.

As the Italian Presidency of the EU draws to an end, some of the developments we have impatiently been watching are now starting to boil: Though no appointment has been made yet, we are one step closer to knowing who the next European Data Protection Supervisor will be. Also, negotiations on the data protection reform advance: The Council of Ministers for Justice met on 10 October to discuss Chapter IV of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation, and more meetings are in the pipeline for December. There are different versions of the same story, though: On the one hand, the commission praised the 10 October meeting as “an important one” that took the negotiations “another big step forward.” On the other, the council continues working with the understanding that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,” which, considering the complexity of the text, is a massive condition to be working on.

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