Strasbourg, 06 October 2025                                                                           T-PD49(2025)OJ_EN

CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CONVENTION
FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH REGARD TO
AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

(Convention 108)

49th Plenary Meeting

Palais de l’Europe, Room 2

Strasbourg, 03-05 November 2025

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DRAFT ANNOTATED AGENDA

www.coe.int/dataprotection


Order of business

Provisional and subject to change in light of the work pace

All times indicated CET

03 November

04 November

05 November

Start

09:30

Items

Joint Event “Transparency and privacy in democratic societies

Items

Adoption of the

abridged report

Break

13:00

                Break

          Break

END OF MEETING

Start

14:30

Items

Items

End

18:00

End

                 End


ANNOTATED AGENDA

1.   Opening of the meeting

Statement by the Chair

Statement by the Secretariat

 

T-PD(2024)48RAPAbrEN

Pro memoria

Abridged report of the 48th Plenary meeting (17-19 June 2025)

T-PD-BUR(2025)64RAPAbr

Pro memoria

Abridged report of the 64th Bureau meeting (29-30 September 2025)

T-PD(2021)WP2022-2025

Pro memoria

Work Programme of the Committee 2022-2025

TPD43(2022)7

Pro memoria

Rules of procedure

2.   Adoption of the agenda

3.   Convention 108+ State of play

Information provided by the Secretariat:

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat and will hold a tour de table inviting those Parties who have signed but not yet ratified Convention 108+, as well as those who have neither signed, nor ratified to present the state of play of their domestic processes.  

·       Consolidated text of the modernised Convention ETS No. 108

·       Explanatory report

·       Amending protocol CETS No.223

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·       Convention 108+: chart of signatures and ratification

·       Convention 108: chart of signatures and ratifications

T-PD(2020)08Rev - Expert Report

Costa-Rica

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat, will hold an exchange of views on the latest developments and decide on the necessary follow up.

4.   Transborder flows of personal data (MCC, Interoperability, other possible tools)

NEW Note from the Secretariat (rev2)

Compendium of the Model Contractual Clauses and list of countries where they have been approved

Presentation by the Secretariat

Required action: The Committee will hold a tour de table on the use of the approved MCC.

The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat and will hold an exchange of views and decide on the necessary follow-up.

5.   Data protection in the context of Large Language Models

NEW Draft Guidelines on data protection in the context of Large Language Models

Expert Report on “Privacy and Data Protection Risks in Large Language Models (LLMs)”

Presentation by the rapporteur Anamarija Mladinić, the experts Isabel Barberá (independent expert) and Murielle Popa Fabre (Responsible AI) and the Secretariat

Required action: The Committee will take note of the presentation by the rapporteur and the experts, will hold an exchange of views and decide on the necessary follow-up.


6.   Work Programme 2026-2029

NEW Draft Work Programme 2026-2029

Presentation by the Secretariat

Required action: The Committee will hold an exchange of views and adopt the Work Programme 2026 – 2029 and decide on the necessary follow up.

7.   Draft Guidelines on Data Protection in the context of neurosciences

Draft Guidelines on Data Protection in the context of neurosciences

Expert report

CDBIO report on Neurotechnologies and human rights framework: do we need new rights?

Information and the presentation provided by the rapporteur, Alessandra Pierucci and Dr Eduardo Bertoni (American University Washington College of Law) and Prof Marcello Ienca (Technical University of Munich)

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the rapporteur and the experts, will hold an exchange of views on the draft guidelines presented and decide on the necessary follow-up

8.  Cooperation with other Council of Europe bodies and entities

NEW Programme of the joint event “Transparency and privacy in democratic societies” (4 November 2025, 9.30 – 13.00, Room 02)

Information provided by the Secretariat

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat.

9.    Developments and activities in the field of data protection

Information provided by the Secretariat

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the participants and the secretariat and decide on the necessary follow-up.

10.  Cooperation

The Secretariat will provide information on on-going cooperation projects.

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the secretariat

11.  Data Protection Commissioner

Activity Report of the Data Protection Commissioner (June 2024 – May 2025)

CM Resolution on the new Regulations on the Protection of Personal Data

Information provided by the Data Protection Commissioner

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Data Protection Commissioner

12.  Observers

List of Observers

T-PD(2018)04Rev3 - State of play and admission criteria

Pro memoria

Information provided by the observers and the Secretariat

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by observers and the Secretariat, hold an exchange of views and decide on the observer status requests received.

13.  Next meetings

Plenary meetings:

49th Plenary: 3-5 November 2025

Bureau meetings:

64th Bureau: 29-30 September 2025, Paris

Required action:

The Committee will take note of the dates of the forthcoming meetings.

14.  Stefano Rodotà Award

Stefano Rodotà Award

Information provided by the Secretariat

Required action: The Committee will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat on the on-going preparation for the next edition of the award.

15.  Any Other Business