EDPB 2025 Annual Report: Recent Trends

The European Data Protection Board (the "EDPB") recently published its 2025 Annual Report (the “Report”).

The Report is framed around the theme of "Clarity in action: Supporting stakeholders through guidance and dialogue.", and reflects a year defined by four central themes: (1) cross-regulatory cooperation, (2) simplification and accessibility of GDPR compliance, (3) cross-border cooperation, and (4) variation in enforcement activity.

Some key figures relating to the EDPB activity outlined in the Report are as follows:

• 5 sets of Guidelines: Pseudonymisation, blockchain technologies, the DSA-GDPR interplay, Article 48 GDPR, and joint DMA-GDPR Guidelines;
• 2 sets of Recommendations;
• 29 Art. 64(1) (non-binding) consistency opinions;