The European Data Protection Supervisor homepage highlights a series of initiatives and events centered on privacy, data protection, and the evolving regulatory landscape in the European Union. A prominent announcement focuses on Data Protection Day 2026, which marks the anniversary of Convention 108, described as the first legally binding treaty protecting privacy in the digital age. To celebrate this occasion, the Council of Europe and the European Data Protection Supervisor will co organize a one day event that will explore new frontiers in data protection and bring together stakeholders to discuss emerging challenges.
The Data Protection Day 2026 event is scheduled to take place on 28 January 2026 at the European Commission’s Charlemagne building in Brussels, and it will be held in person and remotely to allow broader participation. The homepage encourages visitors to consult the full programme and provides information on how to register, underlining the intention to make the discussions accessible to a wide audience. Alongside this, the site points to recent news such as support for targeted VAT data access to fight fraud at EU level, where the European Data Protection Supervisor warns against blurring administrative and criminal boundaries, illustrating the institution’s focus on balanced data use for enforcement purposes.
Other items on the homepage signal ongoing engagement with topical privacy issues, including a conference titled Data takes flight: Navigating privacy at the airport, scheduled for 12 February 2026 and organised jointly by trainees from the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Data Protection Board. The December 2025 agenda lists high level meetings and speeches, including interventions on the role of the Council of Europe’s framework convention on Artificial Intelligence in protecting privacy and personal data, and participation in an Artificial Intelligence convention conference panel on key aspects of personal data protection. A featured blog post, Getting ready: Preparing the EU public administration for the AI Act, notes that the EU public administration is preparing its own Artificial Intelligence systems for implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Act, that the European Data Protection Supervisor has been nominated as the market surveillance authority for Artificial Intelligence systems of European institutions, agencies and bodies, and that a new European Data Protection Supervisor Artificial Intelligence unit was established in October 2024 to support this role.
