CPDP Conference Who is Who

Name: Diana

Family Name: Alonso Blas

Affiliation: Data Protection Officer at Eurojust

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Diana Alonso Blas has been the Data Protection Officer of Eurojust since 2003 and in this capacity she has played a fundamental role in the development of the data protection regime of this new EU third pillar agency. Previous to that, she worked for about two years at the Data Protection Unit of DG Internal Market of the European Commission and worked four years as Senior International Officer with Peter Hustinx at the Dutch Data Protection Authority. She started her career at the Center for Law and Information Technology of the University of Leuven where she worked on various EU comparative data protection projects and spent one year at the Belgian Data Protection Authority with an expert contract. She is a Spanish national and has published many articles and reports in the field of data protection (first and third pillar).

Abstract

The Slovenian and French presidencies have, during 2008, invested a great amount of time and efforts in the review of the Council Decision of 28 February 2002 setting up Eurojust with a view to reinforcing the fight against organised crime. This review aims at reinforcing the situation of Eurojust, harmonising the powers of the National Members as well as improving the information communication from the national authorities to Eurojust. In itself, the new Decision has clearly no intention to modify the Eurojust data protection regime, which is in itself a very positive fact. It contains however some provisions which have some impact or relevance from the data protection viewpoint, which will be explained during this presentation.