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The ICO is a member of the Article 29 Working Party (the WP is made up of a representative from each of the 28 EU Member States + the European Commission and EU bodies dealing with data protection, as detailed in Article 29 of the Data Protection Directive).

The WP is designed to make sure that Member States' Data Protection Authorities apply the DPD in a roughly uniform manner.

Of course, if the ICO deviates from the DPD then any party is able to appeal to the First-Tier Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal and the Court of Appeal who may then refer any questions of EU law to the ECJ in a similar way to Schrems' case.