The Bureau of the Committee of Convention 108 held its 56th meeting on 21 and 22 September in Strasbourg.
Preparing the 43rd plenary meeting of 16-18 November in Strasbourg, it pursued its discussions on ongoing pieces of work, respectively on Guidelines on digital identities in view of their adoption at the next plenary meeting, inter-state exchanges of data for anti-money laundering/countering financing of terrorism, and tax purposes, with the contributions of the secretariat of Moneyval, interpretation of Article 11 of the modernised Convention 108 and contractual clauses in the context of transborder data flows. It also took note of the positive advancement of the work of Costa Rica on its data protection legislation.