Rights of the Individual

Prior checking opinion on the Council first-aid intervention registers (Case 2017-0969)

The EU High Level Advisers programme in Moldova aims to draw on the experience of expert senior officials in EU Member States to help Moldova meet its commitments related to agreements with the EU. The programme is run by the Commission and the EU Delegation in Moldova. A service provider helps to implement the programme in Moldova. The candidate High Level Advisers are selected by the Commission and the Delegation and after the endorsement by Moldovan authorities are recruited by the service provider. In consultation with the Moldovan authorities, the service provider annually evaluates the High Level Advisers on their performance. Following this, the Delegation decides whether to extend the High Level Advisers' contracts. All this entails the processing of personal data by the Commission, the Delegation, the service provider and Moldovan authorities.
The Commission and the Delegation are the co-controllers for the processing of personal data in the High Level Advisers programme and need to clearly define their respective obligations. They should also set up a framework for exchanging the personal data of candidate and recruited High Level Advisers with the Moldovan authorities. The Delegation needs to clarify their respective data protection obligations with the service provider. The candidate and recruited High Level Advisers need to be properly informed about how their personal data is processed in the EU High Level Advisers programme in Moldova.

Prior check opinion regarding remuneration policies and credits to senior officials of significant entities supervised by the ECB (Case 2017-0358)

EDPS Opinion on the proposal for a Regulation establishing a single digital gateway and the ‘once-only’ principle

Prior-checking Opinion regarding probation periods and the e-probation tool at the European Investment Fund (Case 2015-1107)

During the probation evaluation of a staff member and the adoption of the probation report, the EIF processes personal data of that staff member. To ensure transparency and fairness, information on this processing should be provided to the concerned individuals through a specific data protection notice. This notice should be made available on the Intranet. A link to the notice should also be added to the respective forms, reports and/or to the messages sent to the staff members in the different stages of probation evaluation. The notice should also clearly set out the procedures for granting individuals' rights, including also information on within which time limit a reaction can be expected from the EIF to the requests of the individuals. Staff members should be granted access to all their data kept in their personal file and in the electronic database, even after the end of employment. While letters containing probation decisions would need to be kept throughout the career of a staff member, probation reports may not necessarily remain relevant during the whole career. The retention of probation reports up to five years after the end of a particular appraisal procedure would be considered appropriate.