The European Parliament voted on Thursday (20 May) in favour of a resolution calling on the European Commission to open an infringement procedure against Ireland for failing to enforce the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In a resolution on the Schrems II case, a landmark judicial ruling that invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield, MEPs expressed disappointment that in the judicial proceeding, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) preferred to bring the legal proceeding to court rather than taking a decision on its own, as it was in power to do. The DPC also tried, unsuccessfully, to put the judicial costs on the defendant, which would have had ‘a massive chilling effect’, discouraging EU citizens to uphold their rights in court, MEPs said.