Post by EDPS - European Data Protection Supervisor

*** Privacy Symposium - Panel *** Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiorowski at Privacy Symposium in Venice took part in panel "Handling Extraterritorial Effects of Data Regulations: Enforcement, Conflict of Laws, and Cooperation”, addressing some of the most pressing cross-border challenges authorities and organisations are facing today. EU instruments such as standard contractual clauses already provide practical mechanisms: minimisation obligations, notification duties, clear competence rules, to manage tensions between jurisdictions without forcing a binary choice. GDPR's one-stop-shop and binding dispute resolution offer a proven model within the EU/EEA. Beyond it, bilateral agreements and memoranda of understanding can pre-empt conflict by agreeing competence rules in advance. Global cooperation is no longer optional. Forums such as the Global Privacy Assembly and instruments like Convention 108+ reduce fragmentation and build shared expectations. "Global cooperation needs to grow stronger and should be a prime concern for us all. It is no longer an ancillary activity of an authority; it is and should be at the core of all its actions". Wojciech Wiewiórowski stressed.