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Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, issued 835 GDPR enforcement decisions in 2024, more than triple 2023's total, according to CMS's GDPR Enforcement Tracker Report (2026 edition, March 2026 cutoff). See the year-by-year trend, the EUR 15 million OpenAI fine, and why Italy's average penalty is a fraction of the EU average.
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission issued just 10 final GDPR decisions in 2025, yet those decisions carried EUR 530.77 million in fines, pushing its cumulative total since 2018 past EUR 4.04 billion, according to the DPC's own 2025 Annual Report published June 30, 2026. See the decision count trend, the largest individual fines, and how little of that money Ireland has actually collected.
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission has issued EUR 4.04 billion in cumulative GDPR fines, more than half of Europe's EUR 7.1 billion total, per DLA Piper's January 2026 survey. See which countries fine most by value and by case count.
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