EU sanctioning powers and data protection. New tools for ensuring the effectiveness of the GDPR in the spirit of cooperative federalism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Chapter deals with the use of sanctioning powers in the context of EU data protection law and reflects on the thorny relationship between different typologies of sanctions (criminal and administrative) in the light of the new administrative sanctioning powers of the Data Protection Authorities. The analysis starts form short historical presentation of the EU (secondary) laws dealing with data protection and, then it looks at changes to EU ...