The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) last Friday adopted an opinion that the European Commission's proposal to revise the EU's financial regulations does not comply with data protection law. The proposal includes provisions about processing personal data by EU institutions and member states, such as publishing decisions about administrative and financial penalties in a way that would identify the individual penalised, among others, reports IEWY. "The role of privacy and data protection is not to prevent public access to information whenever personal data are involved," said Assistant Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli. However, he said, synergy between transparency and data protection "in the new regulation can only be ensured if the rules on transparency and processing of personal information are sufficiently clear and precise."
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