Activities of Jean LAMBERT related to 2017/2144(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016: European Data Protection Supervisor
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the Court of Auditor annual report on the implementation of the EU Budget does not contain any remarks about the EDPS; regrets howeveracknowledges that no EDPS transaction was selected for audit by the Court of Auditors in 2016 as part of a random sample from administrative expenditure as a whole, covering all institutions and bodies and that therefore the legality and regularity of underlying EDPS transactions was not examined by the Court; stresses that transparency is vital for the appropriate function of the Agency, however, that the Court of Auditors published clean opinions for the EDPS in the last four years;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that in its Annual Internal Audit report for the 2016 published end of March 2017, the internal auditor (IAS) identified 5 important Internal Control Systems recommendations dated from previous years and that were still open; notes with great surprise that some of those recommendations relate to information security and business continuity policies; urgnotes therefore the EDPS given the nature of its mission, to lead by example and close such outstanding recommendations without delayat the absence of an Information Security Policy increases the risk of information being insufficiently protected, which could lead to leakage of information and may harm the reputation of the institution; welcomes the adoption by the EDPS of the Information Security Policy on 19 June 2017 despite the delay of more than 14 months;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes with satisfaction that all the Key Performance Indicators set in the EDPS Strategy 2015-2019 met and sometimes exceeded their respective targets in 2016, which shows that the implementation of the Strategy is on track;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the ongoing work of IPEN which is a group composed of IT experts from all sectors providing a platform for cooperation and information exchange on engineering methods and tools which integrate data protection and privacy requirements into new technologies, an essential issue in the implementation of the GDPR;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Welcomes the launch in 2016 of the EDPS Accountability Initiative, designed to equip EU institutions, beginning with the EDPS as a data controller itself, to lead by example in how they comply and demonstrate compliance with data protection rules;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights that the GDPR and the Directive for data protection in the police and justice sectors shall be fully respected and implemented; acknowledges the intention of the AgencyEDPS to keep GDPR as point of reference for its work;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the aim of the AgencyEDPS, as set out in the Strategy for its mandate, to make data protection as simple and effective as possible for all involved;