The Privacy Statement explains how the European Commission ensures the protection of personal data for the part of IMI that falls under the Commission's responsibility.
IMI is built as a toolkit for administrative cooperation. Based on pre-defined administrative cooperation procedures, it supports different forms of cooperation and mutual assistance, depending on the needs defined for each policy area.
A one-to-one workflow supports the exchange of information between two competent authorities in different countries. For this information exchange, IMI makes use of pre-translated questions and answers ("question sets"):
A one-to-many workflow covers the situation in which one sender needs to transmit information to a group of recipients. This is currently the case for the alert mechanism under the Services Directive and notifications of national legislation:
Alert mechanism for service activities that might cause serious damage to the health or safety of people or to the environment
Notifications
A repository allows the storing of information in a database inside IMI which is made accessible to all IMI users or a defined group of users. It is currently used for notified information on licence holders for the road transport of Euro cash
explains how the European Commission ensures the protection of personal data for the part of IMI that falls under the Commission's responsibility.
