Ex-ante product quality audits - EUIPO

Prior checking Opinion concerning ex-ante product quality audits (Case 2016-0477)

Organisations such as EUIPO ensure the quality of their output in different ways. One such way is checking the quality of decisions before it leaves the organization (ex-ante), recording the error rate and trends in the type and category of errors - and using a database to record this monitoring process.
As staff members remain identifiable in the process and are given feedback at individual level on the basis of this processing operation, this might lead to implications for their performance evaluation(on such processing operations, see EDPS Guidelines in the area of staff evaluation ). This is why the organization needs to comprehensively inform those concerned, grant all data subjects’ rights and ensure the accuracy of the data processed.