The European Commission has formally requested that Germany comply with a March ruling by the EU Court of Justice for the complete independence of data protection supervisory authorities, according to a commission press release. The ruling held that Germany had failed to correctly implement the requirement that authorities monitoring compliance with data protection law operate with complete independence. Now, German data protection supervisors are "expressly subject to state scrutiny," the report states. The commission may ask that the court impose monetary penalties against Germany if it does not come into compliance within two months.
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