The committee adopted the report by Daniel CASPARY (EPP-ED, DE)
granting discharge to the European Data Protection Supervisor for 2005. In
its accompanying resolution, the committee noted that 2005 was the first year
in which the EDPS was fully operational. It referred to the administrative
cooperation agreement signed in 2004 with the Commission, Parliament and
Council providing for assistance for the EDPS for a start-up period of 3
years, under which the Commission’s Accounting Officer and Internal Auditor
were appointed as the relevant officers for the EDPS, and noted that this
agreement had been renewed for a further period of 3 years with effect from
16 January 2007. It also noted that the EDPS had decided to set up an
internal control structure "appropriate to the institution’s activities
and requirements".
The report welcomed the decision by the EDPS and the
assistant supervisor to publish, every year, a declaration of their economic
and financial interests once their new website was completed. Lastly, it
welcomed the fact that the EDPS was prepared to join the interinstitutional
agreement on OLAF and encouraged him to take all necessary steps as soon as
possible.