THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, and in particular Article 49(3) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘the EPPO’) was established to investigate, prosecute and bring to judgment the perpetrators of, and accomplices to, criminal offences affecting the financial interests of the Union.
(2)
The EPPO’s case management system includes an index of all case files. The operational personal data contained in the index is limited to the data needed to identify cases or establish cross-links between different case files.
(3)
The categories of operational personal data and the categories of data subjects whose operational personal data may be processed in the index should therefore be identified.
(4)
Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 should be amended accordingly.
(5)
The group of experts referred to in Article 20(4) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 was consulted on 8 May 2020.
(6)
The European Data Protection Supervisor delivered an opinion on 31 July 2020,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: