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Annual Report 2024: acting for the future of data protection

The EDPS Annual Report 2024 is about acting for the future of data protection, preparing for diverse possibilities and risk that the digital landscape represents. 

Guided by our 2020 - 2024 strategy and its principles: Foresight, Action and Solidarity, the EDPS has:

  • unveiled and taken steps to start executing its Strategy for AI
  • monitored and analysed technologies, including AI- led technologies
  • advised EU-co legislator on upcoming EU regulations directly impacting people’s privacy and data protection
  • providing tools to EUIs to ensure their compliance with EU data protection laws
  • influence the development of data protection globally.

You can consult the EDPS Full Annual Report 2024, and its Executive Summary, to find out more about our supervisory actions, policy and legislative advice, and technology monitoring activities.

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Read Annual Report - Executive Summaries

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Migration management: data protection is one of the last lines of defence for vulnerable individuals

The EDPS published on 28 May 2025 an Opinion on the Proposal for a Regulation establishing a common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the EU.

The objective of the Proposal is to ensure the effective return and re-admission of third-country nationals illegally staying in the EU by providing Member States with simplified and common rules.

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Newsletter is out!

In this issue, read about our trainees’ vision for Europe; our upcoming event on the future of data protection; current affairs on data protection law; our advice and tools for EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies, and MORE!

105th Plenary meeting of the EDPB, Participation of Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Brussels, Belgium

Centro de Estudios Garrigues, Speech by Leonardo Cervera Navas in study visit organised by the EDPS, Brussels, Belgium

XI Congress APEP, Keynote Speech by Leonardo Cervera Navas in event organised by Universidad A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

"The world is watching - us lawyers?", Leonardo Cervera Navas speaking in panel at CPDP 2025, Brussels, Belgium