The 2011 annual report on the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) activities was presented to the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament. The report includes a list a priorities for 2012 among which there are raising awareness or focusing in technological developments, especially those connected to the Internet and associated policies.

Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and Giovanni Buttarelli, Assistant Supervisor, presented their Annual Report of activities for 2011 to the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament. This Report covers the seventh full year of activity of the EDPS as an independent supervisory body. In June 2011, for example, the European Data Protection Supervisor evaluation showed that the Data Retention Directive does not meet privacy requirements.

According to the EDPS, in 2011 he made significant efforts to push the effective protection of personal data. He also stressed that the effects of the new EDPS enforcement policy showed that most EU institutions and bodies are making good progress in complying with the Regulation, while others should increase their efforts.

Therefore, the EDPS priorities regarding data protection in 2012 are raising awareness, defining procedures for handling notifications related to standard administrative procedures or to processing operations already in operation, an exercise to determine the state of play for Data Protection Officers (DPOs) in EU institutions and bodies, and visits and inspections to institutions and agencies. As adviser, he will continue the on going work on the legal framework for data protection in the EU. In addition, he will focus on technological developments, especially those connected to the Internet and associated policies, and in a further developing the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (e.g. EU-TFTS, Smart borders) and financial sector reform insofar as they affect the right to privacy and data protection.