CEDPO was founded in September 2011 jointly by several national European data protection organisations as a common umbrella organisation at European level. CEDPO aims to establish contacts with European institutions and to promote the role of the company data protection officer as well as the harmonisation of data protection regulations within the European Economic Area (EEA) or the European Union. Like the GDD, CEDPO advocates reasonable, practicable, balanced and effective data protection.
In addition to the GDD, the current member organisations of CEDPO are:
- The Association of Data Protection Officers (ADPO), Irland
- Association Française des Correspondants à la Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel (AFCDP) (fr), Frankreich
- ARGE Daten, Österreich
- Associação de Encarregados de Proteção de Dados (AEPD), Portugal
- Asociación Profesional Española de Privacidad (APEP), Spanien
- Association Data Protection Officer (ASSO DPO), Italien
- Asociatia Specialistilor in Confidentialitate si Protectia Datelor (ASCPD), Rumänien
- Nederlands Genootschap van Functionarissen voor de Gegevensbescherming (NGFG), Niederlande
- Stowarzyszenie Administratorów Bezpieczeństwa Informacji (SABI), Polen
