Ireland and EU privacy/digital laws: New horizons

Ireland and EU privacy/digital laws: New horizons

14 May 2026

McCann FitzGerald, Dublin

Overview

Date: Thursday 14 May 2026
Times: 09.00 to 17.30 BST
Location: McCann FitzGerald, Dublin
Type: In-person and Online

CPE Credits: up to 6

Irish CPD & CCPS: 6 hrs 20 mins

All of the content of the conference qualifies for Irish Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours. It also qualifies for the subset of CPD known as Client Care and Professional Standards (which used to be known as RPD).

Everyone attending in person or on-line will be entitled to 6 hours 20 minutes of CPD. This will also cover and exceed their requirement for CCPS for the entire year. If they attend in person, it will cover and exceed the yearly in-person CPD requirement (which is 5 hours of the overall 25 hours CPD requirement).

In addition, McCann FitzGerald will be able to issue CPD/CCPS certificates to attendees which they can then use as evidence of meeting CPD and CCPS requirements.

Keynotes:

• Michael McGrath, European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection
• Dr Des Hogan, Commissioner for Data Protection, Data Protection Commission, Ireland

Confirmed Session:

• How to Deploy AI Within a Data Legal Framework
  Richard Nicholas, Partner, Browne Jacobson, UK

With data an increasingly valuable asset, you will not want to miss this conference whether your organisation is based in Ireland, or is one of hundreds of companies based outside the EU which have their European HQs in Ireland.

Clarification and Simplification

Everyone agrees, in principle, with the goals of Clarification and Simplification to reduce administrative burdens. However, will the EU’s ambitious initiative to put together its digital legislation into the Digital Omnibus Package survive in its current form? The package including the Data Act, the AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act, and many more provisions, is an integral part of the EU’s current 5 year political programme.

The proposed amendments relating to personal data protection in the EU Digital Omnibus Package aim at upholding the principle of proportionality enshrined in the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, while also fostering innovation and economic growth in the Single Market.

But the future path is not clear because in the next few months there will be more lobbying by both companies and privacy advocates as the Omnibus goes through its legislative stages in the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers.

• What will be the shape of a possible compromise?
• How should your organisation prepare for the more likely outcomes?

Ireland at the centre of the EU data debate

With Ireland taking over the EU Presidency in July, Ireland will be at the centre of this political and economic policy debate. Our sessions with the Commissioners will indicate for you, at both EU and national levels, how differences are likely to be resolved.

A speaker from the European Data Protection Board will brief us on the EU DPAs' position on the Digital Omnibus

Further speakers coming soon

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Registration

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