European Data Protection Board Replaces Article 29 Working Party

On 25 May 2018 the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) formally replaced the Article 29 Working Party as the European advisory committee on data protection issues. In addition to taking over Article 29 Working Party's responsibilities in issuing guidelines, recommendations and statements of best practice, the EDPB, which operates as an independent body of the European Union with its own separate legal personality, also takes on a far broader set of responsibilities:

• examining – on its own initiative or on the request of one of its members or the European Commission (Commission) – any question covering the application of the GDPR;
• advising the Commission on any issue related to data protection in the EU, including on any proposed amendment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any EU legislative proposal;