Effective procedure – SAs have a preference for cooperation via informal workflows in the IMI system
Article(s) involved (national, EU, or other): Articles 60, 61 and 62 GDPR.
Problem
SAs tend to make more often use from informal workflows in the IMI system rather than formal workflows – e.g., requesting information via voluntary mutual assistance, without legal deadlines and legal consequences when the request is not adhered to.
Ideal Solution
The regulation should provide when SAs should make use of formal requests (formal mutual assistance, joint operations and formal consultation) so that legal deadlines and legal consequences cannot be ignored. In general, the IMI system should be more user-friendly: SAs have to send each other emails about important notifications (e.g., information requests) as such notifications may disappear in the enormous amount of notifications that SAs get from the IMI system regarding their cases (causing a huge chaos in tracking down the status of a particular case, for instance, because each new step within one case may be linked to a different case number).
