The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is an independent supervisory authority whose primary objective is to monitor and ensure that European institutions and bodies respect the right to privacy and data protection when they process personal data and develop new policies.
Wojciech Wiewiórowski has been appointed European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) by a joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council. Appointed for a five-year term, he took office on 6 December 2019.
Wojciech Wiewiórowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx vjɛvjuˈrɔfskʲi]) is a Polish lawyer, university teacher and European Data Protection Supervisor. He is a former General Inspector of the Personal Data Protection in Poland (2010-2014).
He was born on June 13, 1971 in Łęczyca, Central Poland. In 1995 he graduated from Faculty of and Administration in University of Gdańsk, the School of English and European Law organised in Poland by the University of Cambridge, the Summer School of International Law organised by the Catholic University of America and the Jagiellonian University and the Singapore Co-operation Programme: “eGovernment - Journey Towards Public Sector Excellence”. He was the finalist of the Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition organised by the University of Cambridge in 1998. Between 1996-2004 worked for law publishing house and co-authored legal information retrieval systems. He also taught European and constitutional law at the Gdansk School of Public Administration and Gdańsk University of Technology.
The main bodies of the European Union and Euratom are:
Apart from them, some several other bodies exist.
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