Published: March 1st, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
Admittedly, it does not have the right to veto. But if the European Data Protection Board had flatly found the US assurances of better protection for data originating in the EU inadequate, that would have been tantamount to a recommendation of rejection for the European Parliament. Moreover, its criticism would likely be the main point of departure for a possible subsequent rejection of the Commission’s adequacy decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). But EU data protection regulators view the Data Privacy Framework as a legal framework more positively than companies feared and critics hoped.