European Union: Published EDPB criteria for the selection of cases of “strategic importance” for closer cooperation between Data Protection Authorities

On 29 July 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its criteria for selecting cross-border cases of “strategic importance” to allow strategic enforcement cooperation between EU Data Protection Authorities. The strategic cases can be proposed by any European Supervisory Authority whenever a case overlaps with other areas of law, affects a large number of data subjects in more than one Member State, involves a large number of complaints in several Member State, poses a high risk under the GDPR or a structural or recurrent problem in the several Member States.