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On 30 June 2022, Eurojust published the seventh issue of the Cybercrime Judicial Monitor(CJM), an annual publication offering an update on legislative and other developments as well as court rulings regarding cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime. In the seventh issue, special attention is paid to …

On 6 July 2022, Mr Tihamér Tóth and Ms Beatrix Ricziová entered into office as Judges at the General Court of the EU.Prior to his appointment, Mr Tóth had worked as Professor at the Hungarian Pázmány-Péter Catholic University and he was practising lawyer …

On 30 June 2022, the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which was carried out during the last six months (→news of 20 January 2022), came to an end. The Presidency was marked by the efforts to provide a united and …

On 1 July 2022, the Czech Republic took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months. It is the second country in the cycle of trio presidencies composed of France, the Czech Republic and Sweden (→ eucrim 4/2021, …

On 2 and 7 March 2022, the EDPS issued two opinions on the Commission’s proposals for a Regulation on automated data exchange for police cooperation and for a Directive on information exchange between law enforcement authorities of Member States.

In a resolution of 3 May 2022, the European Parliament proposed an EU Roadmap for AI to 2030. MEPs acknowledged the huge benefits of using AI to address climate change, pandemics and the labour market, but warned about risks to fundamental rights.

On 20 April 2022, the EDPS published the Annual Report for the year 2021. In addition to a summary of the highlights of the work in 2021, the report offers chapters on the EDPS’ supervision and enforcement measures, especially in the area of freedom, security …

In a Joint Opinion, the EDPS and EDPB call on the co-legislators to include more safeguards in the planned Data Act to avoid lowering the protection of the fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data in practice.

On 28 April 2022, the CJEU ruled that the GDPR does not preclude a consumer protection association from being able to bring legal proceedings, in the absence of a mandate granted to it for that purpose and independently of the infringement of the specific rights of the data subjects, against the person allegedly responsible for an infringement of the laws protecting personal data.

On 12 May 2022, a Eurobarometer survey about the impact of cybercrime on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) was published. Between 26 November and 17 December 2021, nearly 13,000 interviews with SME representatives in all 27 EU countries were conducted by Ipsos European Public …