A mayor’s office mixes up the European Commission and the European Council when asking who typically proposes EU legislation such as data-protection measures. Which assignment is correct?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Need a bill on the EU table? That proposal job is classically the Commission’s lane — think of them as the office that writes the first draft for the legislature to fight over. The European Council is more about high-level political direction from heads of state or government, not the day-to-day proposal machine.
Full Explanation
Under the EU institutional framework, the European Commission has the primary role of proposing EU legislation, including measures in the data-protection field, before co-legislators act. A mayor’s office that mixes the Commission with the European Council should separate initiative from high-level political direction: the Commission typically drafts and proposes; the European Council sets overall political priorities at heads-of-state-or-government level and is not the ordinary legislative proposer. The European Council does not draft every GDPR Article as if it were a national supervisory authority. Nor does it alone adopt regulations without Parliament or Commission involvement under the ordinary process. National mayors do not jointly propose EU regulations through the EDPB secretariat—the EDPB is a consistency and cooperation body for supervisory authorities, not a municipal legislative proposer. Exam caveat: institutional role questions often swap Commission, Council of the EU, European Council, Parliament, and EDPB—match proposer versus co-legislator versus supervisor. Operational check: when civic leadership asks who writes EU privacy law, answer Commission proposes, Parliament and Council of the EU co-decide under the ordinary legislative procedure, and supervisory authorities enforce—then stop conflating those boxes in briefing decks.