Mr Bruno Gencarelli
After having served as Deputy to the Director and Acting Director for Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law, Mr Gencarelli heads the newly established team responsible for international affairs (including data flows) in the area of justice and consumers at the European Commission. He was in charge of the Commission's work in the area of data protection in the decisive phases of the legislative reform of EU data protection law. This included leading the Commission's delegation in the interinstitutional negotiations with the European Parliament and the Council on the data protection reform (GDPR and "Law Enforcement Directive"). He also led the negotiations of several data transfer arrangements, including the EU-Japan mutual adequacy arrangement creating the world’s largest area of free and safe data flows. He recently co-led for the EU the negotiations with the UK on all aspects relating to justice and consumers in the context of Brexit. He is in currently in charge of the negotiations on a successor arrangement to the EU-US Privacy Shield. Mr Gencarelli previously served as a member of the European Commission's Legal Service and as an assistant (référendaire) to a judge at the European Court of Justice after having practiced law in the private sector.
Sessions in which Mr Bruno Gencarelli participates
- Convention 108+ Impact on Adequacy Decisions and Data Transfers Santa Margherita - Auditorium
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
- Transatlantic Cross-border Data Transfers Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Sala Capitolare
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- This panel will explore the interconnected nature of transatlantic cross-border data transfers with a var...
- Plenary
- Privacy, Innovation, and Global Trade: (How) Can we Have it All? Ca' Dolfin - Aula Magna
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- The question of how to reconcile privacy, innovation, and global trade can be a challenging one, as actors involved in the debate on cross-borde...
- Panel