Commission reveals shortlist of candidates for data protection supervisor role

The Parliament’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee, will hold a hearing for all five candidates on 15 October.

The European Commission has finalised shortlists of candidates for the posts of European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor, to be appointed by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers.

The Commission made an abortive bid to prepare such shortlists last year, when the mandates of the current holders, were scheduled to expire in January 2014. Peter Hustinx, has served two five-year mandates as EDPS since 2004 and Giovanni Buttarelli, was appointed AEDPS in 2009.

On that occasion, the Commission did not think applicants for the posts were sufficiently well qualified and so asked the Council of Ministers and Parliament to prolong the mandates of Hustinx and Buttarelli while the process was restarted.

The shortlist for the EDPS now includes Buttarelli (who was a candidate last year as well), Noëlle Lenoir, a competition lawyer and French politician who was briefly the country’s EU affairs minister, Yann Padova, a French lawyer working for Baker & McKenzie who was secretary-general of the French data protection authority CNIL.

The shortlist for the assistant EDPS post includes Buttarelli, Cinzia Biondi, a UK lawyer specialising in data protection, and Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Poland’s data protection supervisor (who also applied last year).

The Commission sent the shortlists of candidates to the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament on 17 September. The Parliament’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee, will hold a hearing for all five candidates on 15 October.

The Council and Parliament are hoping to reach an agreement on who to appoint to the two positions by the end of October or early November.

 

The shortlisted candidates for the EDPS job are:

Giovanni Buttarelli, Italian, assistant European Data Protection Supervisor since 2009, previously secretary-general Italian data protection authority (1997-2009), president of the Schengen supervisory body (2002-03).

Noëlle Lenoir, French, partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis and Frankel LLP, Paris, since 2012, lawyer Jeantet Associés, Paris (2009-12), Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Paris (2004-09), ministers of EU affairs in government of Jean Raffarin (2002-04), member of France’s Conseil Constitutionnel (1992-2001), chair, European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies (1992-2001), elected chair of the European Ethics and Science and Technology Group (GEE) in 1994, member of GEE in 1991, chief of staff, ministry of justice (1988-90), member of the Conseil d’Etat in 1984, director of regulatory matters, National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL), (1982-84).

Yann Padova, French, senior counsel, Baker & McKenzie, Paris from 2012, secretary-general of CNIL (2006-12), administrator, law committee, Assemblée Nationale, 1995-2006.

Candidates for the position of assistant EDPS:

Cinzia Bondi, British, consultant, Professional Support, since 2009, director of compliance, Morgan Stanley, RBS.

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (GIODO), Poland, since 2010, director, informatisation department, ministry of interior and administration, Poland (2008-10), various positions in public administration (2006-08), appointed assistant professor and head of legal IT department, Gdansk University, 2003, lecturer, Gdansk college of administration, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

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