Early retirement - Parliament

Opinion of 18 February 2009 on a notification for prior checking on the procedure for early retirement without reduction of pension rights (Case 2008-748)

The European Parliament has implemented a procedure allowing officials and temporary agents who meet the eligibility conditions to file an application in order to benefit from early retirement without reduction of their pension rights.

The EDPS finds that there is a breach of Articles 11 and 12 of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001, in particular in view of the fact that no specific notice containing all the relevant data protection information is provided to the members of the staff concerned concerning the data processing that is taking place. The EDPS further makes recommendations to the European Parliament with respect to the need to also inform third parties concerned whom data are processed (e.g. in cases of requests for early retirement for family reasons) about the data processing and their right to access, correct and block their own data.