EU’s Data Protection Regulation: divisions exposed as Member States show disharmony.
DAPIX is the Working Party on Information Exchange and Data Protection where delegations of civil servants from Member States discuss the European Commission’s Data Protection Regulation. The minutes of the meeting held on 23-24 February shows that there are deep divisions as to the content of the Regulation; in fact, the minutes record that only “a few delegations supported the Commission in its choice of a Regulation”. I can also reveal the Commission’s “hoped-for” timescale for the discussions about




