Having debated what data protection is developed for, what it should be and what it could one day become, we would like to conclude the Summit with an attempt to turn these reflections into practical proposals.

Data protection is not only an objective in itself, but an important element of modern democracies. One is largely linked to another. How can then data protection make itself useful for democracy? And what can democracy do for data protection? In other words, what measures need to be undertaken to build democracies that effectively protect their citizens and their fundamental rights when it comes to the use of data?

Twenty years after the office of the European Data Protection Supervisor was created, we invite the Summit participants to write a roadmap for the EU so that the next 20 years bring even more profound progress in terms of protection of individuals.