The LIBE committee agreed to her request but, on Wednesday, said “the Irish DPC has declined to participate in the meeting under the format set”. After its September hearing, the LIBE committee issued a draft resolution critical of the DPC’s work. LetterIn her February letter, Ms Dixon said her office was Europe’s “only supervisory authority to engage with EU-US transfers in a meaningful way, or at all”. He accused Ms Dixon of being very protective of her lead role on regulating companies like Facebook, an approach he said “inhibits a certain amount of initiatives of other regulators”. That Ireland’s DPC had the lead in 196 EU data cases, of which just four had reached a ruling, “means a clear backlog in processing cases in the Irish regulatory authority cannot be denied”.

Source: The Irish Times March 17, 2021 17:25 UTC