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• CENTR in 2022 and beyond: a General Manager's perspective

  2021-09-22 Blog

  General Manager, Peter Van Roste, shares some insights into CENTR’s strategic planning process and touches on some of the changes coming in the next few years.

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• EU Policy Update – Summer 2021

  2021-09-08 EU Policy Updates

  In a nutshell: Slovenia took over the Presidency of the Council of the EU. The European Parliament adopted a temporary ePrivacy derogation to detect and remove child abuse. The NIS2 and CER Directives, as well as the DSA Regulation proposals advanced through the European Parliamentary discussions. The Council of the EU published its conclusions on intellectual property policy. The European Data Protection Board adopted guidelines on the concepts of controller and processor. ENISA published a report stating that supply chain cyberattacks are expected to quadruple in 2021.

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• EU Policy Update - June 2021

  2021-07-12 EU Policy Updates

  In a nutshell: The European Commission published a proposal on European Digital Identity, and adopted new sets of standard contractual clauses to provide more guidance on compliance with Schrems II. The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the EU Cybersecurity Strategy for the Digital Decade. Members of the European Parliament proposed amendments to the Draft report on the NIS2 proposal and numerous opinions on the DSA and the NIS2 proposals throughout different committees. The European Court of Justice delivered judgments in cases concerning platforms’ liability for copyright infringements, copyright infringements through peer-to-peer networks, and in a jurisdictional dispute over the ‘one-stop shop’ mechanism in the GDPR. 

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