Brussels, 10 October – During its October 2024 plenary, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) selected the topic for its fourth Coordinated Enforcement Action (CEF), which will concern the implementation of the right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) by controllers. Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) will join this action on a voluntary basis in the coming weeks and the action itself will be launched during the first semester of 2025.

The right to erasure (Art.17 GDPR) is one of the most frequently exercised data protection rights and one about which DPAs frequently receive complaints. The aim of this coordinated action will be, among other objectives, to evaluate the implementation of this right in practice. For example, this will be done by analysing and comparing the processes put in place by different controllers to identify the most significant issues in complying with this right, but also to get an overview of best practices.

In a coordinated enforcement action, the EDPB prioritises a specific topic for DPAs to work on at national level. In the past three years,



DPAs have already coordinated their national actions on different topics, namely: the use of cloud in the public sector, the designation and position of Data Protection Officers and the implementation of the right of access by data controllers.

The results of these national actions are then aggregated and analysed together to generate deeper insight into the topic and allowing for targeted follow-up on both national and EU level.

In 2023, the EDPB published the report on its first coordinated action on the use of cloud-based services by the public sector.

Earlier this year, the EDPB also published the report on the outcome of the second coordinated action on the designation and position of Data Protection Officers.

The report on the outcome of the 2024 coordinated action on the right of access will be adopted at the beginning of 2025.

Coordinated actions follow the EDPB’s decision to set up

📌 CEF 2025: EDPB selects topic for next year’s Coordinated Action (Anupgarh)
🏢 EFDPO European Federation of Data Protection Officers
📍 Anupgarh