ViEUws interviews Giovanni Buttarelli, EDPS, on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He is confident that an agreement can be found by the end of 2015. He explores the impact of the recent European Court of Justice ruling on Safe Harbour on the implementation of the future data protection package. Giovanni Buttarelli gives an assessment of both the EU-US data protection “umbrella agreement” and the new EU proposal on Passenger Name Record (PNR). Finally, he presents the new EDPS Ethics Group which is destined to unfold a new chapter for data protection.