Frequently Asked Questions

Once a public consultation is closed, all contributions to the public consultation are reviewed and, where necessary, the guidelines may be adapted. Once this process has been completed, the guidelines will be up for final adoption at a subsequent EDPB plenary.

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is the European Union’s (EU) independent data protection authority.

The EDPS is responsible for monitoring the processing of personal data by the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (EUIs) as well as providing advice on policies and legislation that affect privacy and cooperating with similar authorities to ensure consistent data protection.

For more information visit the EDPS website.

The dispute resolution mechanism triggered under Art.65.1 (a) and (b) GDPR contributes to the good functioning of the cooperation mechanism by addressing any disagreements Concerned Supervisory Authorities (CSAs) may have in a given case or if there are conflicting views as to which authority is the Lead Supervisory Authority (LSA).
The EDPB will act as a dispute resolution body. It must adopt a decision to address the conflict between the involved Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), which is binding on them (Art. 65 GDPR). The decision is adopted by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Board, and in case a decision cannot be adopted within 2 months, the decision is adopted within the next 2 weeks by a simple majority.

Once the Lead Supervisory Authority (LSA) or, in some cases the Concerned Supervisory Authority (CSA), with which the complaint was lodged has notified the EDPB of the date its final decision was communicated to the controller or processor and, where relevant, to the complainant, the EDPB will publish its own decision on its website.

The archived documents adopted by the Article 29 Working Party (1997-2016) are available on the website of the European Commission here: WP29 archive.

Should you experience any difficulty accessing WP29 documents, we recommend contacting the European Commission's DG Justice. The European Commission provided the Secretariat for the Article 29 Working Party and was responsible for all its publications. 

You can contact them by filling out the following form

All documents adopted during the EDPB Plenary are subject to the necessary legal, linguistic and formatting checks and will be made available on the EDPB website once these have been completed.

Once published, recently adopted documents will be listed under “latest publications” on the main page of this website.

You can also find overviews of the documents adopted per plenary on the EDPB news page.

As addressees of the EDPB decisions, the relevant Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) that wish to challenge these decisions can bring an action for annulment before the European Court of Justice (CJEU) within two months of being notified.

No. The EDPB does not handle complaints or conduct investigations. If you believe your data protection rights have been violated you can contact the organisation holding your data, contact your national data protection authority (DPA), or go to a national court.

DPAs can conduct investigations and impose sanctions where necessary. Find the contact details for all EEA DPAs 

Please note that the EDPB does not contact individuals, via phone or other means of communication, to inform them of such matters.

Therefore, it could be that the call you received represents a phishing attack targeting you abusing our name.

All comments submitted are screened and reviewed manually before being displayed on our website. There should have been a visual confirmation after submitting your comments on our website.

In any case, please allow for some time before your comments are published.