Juraj is an EU official at the Data Protection Unit of DG Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. He is working on the development and application of EU data protection law for more than a decade. Juraj has been closely involved in the process of drafting and negotiating the new EU data protection legislation, particularly focusing on the Law Enforcement Directive (EU) 2016/680, the Data Protection Regulation for Union institutions and bodies and data protection rules for the European Public Prosecutors’ Office and Eurojust. He publishes regularly on topical issues for data protection in the area of law enforcement. He is also a part-time postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), after defending his PhD in2024 jointly at VUB and Uni.Lu.