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Statistics

08.09.2022
ACTIVITY INDICATORS* 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Development of guidelines, policy advising                    
Guidelines (not considering updates to existing) 4 12 6 4 1 2 1 - 1 -
Opinions on draft legislative acts 21 30 28 35 27 34 42 8 29 44
Communication work                    
Questions, memoranda, freedom-of-information requests 817 1370 1144 1369 1417 1520 2384 2343 1759* 1813
Help line calls 1160 1344 1141 1136 1419 1527 2556 1578 1222 1350
Training events and counselling 84 88 58 52 102 165 223 94 71 69
Supervision                    
Circulars (without opening supervisory cases) - - - 5 5 5 8 1 2 3
      incl. No. of circular addressees       149 34 37 162 106 1108 92
Large-scale comparative monitoring sessions 4 4 6 14 9 10 2 - 1 1
     incl. No. of objects observed       412 148 129 85 - 77 73
Complaints, challenges, reports of misdemeanours (submitted) 404 550 413 446 390 462 462 609 701** 693
     incl. challenges                 243  
     incl. Complaints and reports of misdemeanours                 458  
Ex officio supervisory cases (open without complaints) 191 171 152 384 86 149 15 29 28 30
        incl. preventive data protection audits 7 6 16 24 24 1 1 - - -
Personal data breach notifications (IMI) ***             479 1048 884 929
On-site inspections (in supervisory cases) 23 15 48 35 33 45 17 - 2 1
Recommendations and proposals (in supervisory cases)       299 56 125 10 63 223 214
Precepts (usually preceded by a proposal; usually includes a coercive fine warning) 187 120 86 77 59 64 46 14 37 30
Misdemeanour cases (closed) 43 29 11 16 16 9 23 14 12 11
Penal law fines (for misdemeanours) and coercive fines(in supervisory cases) 39 22 8 15 16 4 9 5 12 10
Licensing and special proceedings                    
Submissions for database approval (establishing, taking into use, changing the data composition, ending) 84 89 115 167 139 99 36 39 16 31
Submissions for licences for scientific research without the consent of the data subjects 13 17 13 29 18 54 61 30 32 20
Submissions for licenses for data transfer to a foreign country without adequate data protection level 7 6 13 8 18 22 3 1 2 2
Submissions regarding one’s own data in Schengen, Europol, and other cross-border databases 4 6 6 10 10 8 21 31 10 14
Data Breach Notifications (starting from 25.05.2018)             64 115 138 145
 
** The method for compiling statistics is different from previous years due to a change in the document management system from 2019 onwards.
 
*** IMI is the European Union's Internal Market Information System, through which data protection authorities exchange information and provide complaints, requests for clarification, infringement notices and memorandas.