Priority Post Statement

The U.S. Department of Commerce should also conduct regular searches for companies making false claims about their participation in the Privacy Shield. More awareness-raising for EU individuals about how to exercise their rights under the Privacy Shield, notably on how to lodge complaints. Closer cooperation between privacy enforcers i.e. the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission, and the EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), notably to develop guidance for companies and enforcers. Enshrining the protection for non-Americans offered by Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28), as part of the ongoing debate in the U.S. on the reauthorisation and reform of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). ...[+++]To appoint as soon as possible a permanent Privacy Shield Ombudsperson, as well as ensuring the empty posts are filled on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).

(2) Forthwith after the filing of a petition under subsection (1), the band shall call a special band meeting, to be held as soon as possible, for the purpose of deciding whether the office of the council member in question should be declared vacant, and if, with at least twenty per cent of the electors of the band voting on the question, the special band meeting decides that that office should be declared vacant, that office thereupon becomes vacant.

At the launch of the Communication, Siim Kallas, the then Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Mobility and Transport, said: “If ever there was a right time to do this, it is now” - sentiments which have been echoed by Violeta Bulc, his successor as Commissioner, who has prioritised the inclusion of RPAS in the Aviation Package, due by the end of 2015.

In terms of the priority administration program, Ms. Robinson, you said that the PSC has seen an increase in the number of new surplus priorities over the past year, from 226 to 576.