EU Council Harmonizes Rules for Faster Cross-Border Privacy Enforcement
The EU Council approved rules to facilitate handling GDPR cross-border data protection complaints, it announced Monday.
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Among other things, the rules harmonize the requirements for deciding if a complaint meets the conditions for being investigated cross-border, and ensure that common rules apply to the involvement of complainants and organizations under investigations.
The measures also give DPAs the authority to settle straightforward cases without resorting to the full set of rules, and set a deadline of not more than 15 months for most cases to be decided.
The regulation will take effect 20 days after it's published in the EU Official Journal and will apply 15 months after that, the Council noted.
The European Parliament gave the green light to the regulation in October (see Ref:2510210006]).