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ARTICLE · 24 DECEMBER 2013

EU Commission Back-Pedals On Data Protection Reform

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After many setbacks and delays in developments for EU data protection reform (see our previous blogs on the first European Parliament vote delay and subsequent vote pushback), October was an exciting month of progress.

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After many setbacks and delays in developments for EU data protection reform (see our previous blogs on the first European Parliament vote delay and subsequent vote pushback), October was an exciting month of progress. The Ministers in the Council agreed on a centralised, one-stop-shop mechanism for data protection, and the European Parliament voted in favour of the proposed new data protection regulation and directive.  However, all this enthusiasm came to nothing, with European Council Conclusions revealing that the reformed EU Data Protection Framework is not to be adopted until 2015 – long after the next European Parliament elections in May 2014. 

Hopes for a swift reform have further been dampened by recent announcements (13/1027 and 13/1029) by Vice President of the European Commission Viviane Reding, following theEU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on 6 December 2013.

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