Dismissal of the data protection officer
Authors: Iurie Cojocaru and Flavia Lungu The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) instituted an additional layer of protection against sanctioning and dismissal for the data protection officer…
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GDPR | 4-year anniversary – Our top picks of past and upcoming judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Authors: Roxana Ionescu and Iurie Cojocaru Today we celebrate 4 years since GDPR became applicable, changing the data protection rules in a significant manner. These past years have been challengin…
Data Governance Act was adopted
Author: Mădălina Bucur On 16 May 2022, the Council of the European Union announced the adoption of the Data Governance Act (“DGA”) following the Council's approval of the European Parliament's posi…
Minimum data protection checklist on future law on whistleblowing protection
Author: Mădălina Bucur
Introducing NIS 2 – main things to know and follow
Roxana Ionescu and Oxana Gorgan In celebration of the European Cybersecurity Month, we dedicate this article to the analysis of the reform of one of central EU legislation on cybersecurity – the Ne…
Roxana Ionescu moderates the 4th episode of The Legal 500 Corporate Conversations
Roxana Ionescu, Head of NNDKP’s Data Protection practice, moderated the 4th episode of the Corporate Conversations webinar and podcast series - an initiative by The Legal 500. In this episode, Roxa…
First thoughts on the new SCCs for international transfers of personal data
Roxana Ionescu and Mădălina Bucur Everybody was anyway waiting for the new SCCs ever since the GDPR[1] came into force, but there was heightened urgency in completing these documents after the July…
Key takeaways from 3 years of GDPR application in Romania
Roxana Ionescu and Iurie Cojocaru If you are to look at the numbers (see table below), the situation does not seem very dire: the number of complaints and related investigations is down; th…
Key takeaways on the Romanian whistleblowers proposal law
Roxana Ionescu, Madalina Bucur, Flavia Lungu and George Trandafir Background Companies operating in EU may already be aware that on December 2019 the Whistleblowers Directive[1] came into forc…
We received unwanted data. How do we handle them?
Iurie Cojocaru and Roxana Ionescu However, there may be cases when not the loss is accidental, but the collection of data. Actually, it is not always an accident. Sometimes, the data subject provi…