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Title

Consultation on the legal framework for the fundamental right to protection of personal data

Policy field(s)

• Freedom
• Justice and Security
• Internal Market
• Information Society
• Consumers

Target group(s)

Wide-ranging public

Period of consultation

From 9 July 2009 to 31 December 2009

The consultation has closed. No more contributions will be accepted

Objective of the consultation

To obtain views on the new challenges for personal data protection in order to maintain an effective and comprehensive legal framework to protect individual's personal data within the EU.

Questions addressed

With respect to this consultation, the Commission asked for views on the new challenges for personal data protection, in particular in the light of new technologies and globalisation:

• In your views, the current legal framework meets these challenges?
• What future action would be needed to address the identified challenges?

Reference documents and other related consultations

• Conference "Personal data - more use, more protection?", 19-20 May 2009: live webcast and presentations  
• Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: an area of freedom, security and justice serving the citizen (COM (2009) 262 final ).
• Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the follow-up of the Work Programme for a better implementation of the Data Protection Directive (COM(2007) 87 final )
• Commission's website on protection of personal data.  

Contact details

Responsible service:
Directorate-General for Justice
Unit C3 - Data protection
E-mail: JUST-PRIVACY-CONSULTATIONS@ec.europa.eu

Postal address:
European Commission
Directorate-General for Justice
Unit C3 - Data protection
B-1049 Brussels

Number of responses received to this consultation

168

View the contributions

In the interests of transparency, organisations were invited to provide the public with relevant information about themselves by registering in the Interest Representative Register and subscribing to its Code of Conduct.

If the organisation had not been registered, the submission was published separately from the registered organisations.

• Summary of the public consultation  

Citizens

• Aldhouse, Francis  
• Bell, Raymond  
• Benton, Dustin  
• Breyer, Patrick
• Corbet, Rob  
• Dietrich, Daniel  
• Fackeldey, Arnd
• Fluck, Nick  
• Fourmont, Pierre
• Freriks, Gerard  
• Hatscher, Jordan  
• Henno, Jacques  
• Kanellopoulou, Nadja  
• Karhula, Paivikki  
• Kilian, Wolfgang  
• Kortbæk, Frederik  
• Laubacher, Gérard  
• Matthios, Fabien  
• Pounder, Chris  
• Probst, Ulrich
• Rannenberg, Kai  
• Roy-Toole, Christopher  
• Segaud, Olivier  
• Sigacus Gestion  
• Strangar, Gerhard  
• Struckmeier, Friedrich-Karl
• Theissen, Sascha  
• Vlad, Ioan-Luca  
• Yamada, Yasuhide  

Organisations

• ACCIS Public Affairs Manager  
• Acxiom Deutschland GmbH  
• AK - Österreich
• American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union  
• ANEC  
• Associazione Bancaria Italiana (ABI)  
• Association of British Insurers (ABI)  
• Association of Commercial Television in Europe  
• Association Européenne pour la défense des Droits de l'Homme (AEDH)
• BCS Chartered Institute for IT  
• British Bankers' Association (BBA)  
• British Medical Association  
• Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (BDI)  
• Bundesverband Deutscher Inkasso-Unternehmen e.V. (BDIU)
• Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien e.V. (BITKOM)  
• Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs (BEUC)  
• Business Software Alliance  
• CBI  
• Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP  
• Cisco  
• Conseil des barreaux européens (CCBE)  
• Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins
• DATEV
• Digital Europe  
• EADP  
• ebaY  
• EUROFINAS  
• European Banking Federation (EBF)  
• European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA)  
• European E-commerce and Mail Order Trade Association (EMOTA)  
• European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN)  
• European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA)  
• European Privacy Association (EPA)  
• European Publishers Council  
• European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO)  
• French Banking Federation  
• German Insurance Association  
• GSMA Europe  
• Intel Corporation  
• Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe)  
• Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE)  
• Joint reply by the European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA) and the European Federation of Magazine Publishers (FAEP)  
• Joint reply by the International Video Federation (IVF), the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the International Federation of Film Distributors Associations (FIAD) and the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF)  
• Joint reply by the World Association of Research Professionals (ESOMAR) and the European Federation of Associations of Market Research Organisations (EFAMRO)  
• Joint response by ACT, AER, Advertising Information Group, EACA, EGTA, EPC, FEDMA, IAB.europe, WFA  
• The Law Society  
• MICROSOFT Corporation 1   - 2  
• National AIDS Trust (NAT)  
• Nederlands Genootschap Functionarissen Gegevensbescherming (NGFG)  
• Orange/France Telecom Group  
• Ordre National des chirurgiens-dentistes
• Ordre National des sages-femmes
• Sagem Sécurité
• Symantec Corporation  
• TechAmerica Europe (formerly AeA Europe)  
• Telecom Italia  
• TELEFONICA SA  
• The Direct Marketing Association (UK)  
• The Number  
• UEAPME  
• Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG
• Visa Europe Limited  
• Verband Privater Rundfunk und Telemedien e.V. (VPRT)
• Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (German Federation of Consumer Organisations)  
• Zentralverbands der deutschen Werbewirtschaft ZAW E.V.

Organisations Not Registered

• Alcatel-Lucent  
• Alliance of UK Health Regulators on Europe (AURE)  
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft für wirtschaftliche Verwaltung e.V. (AWV)
• Association for Fair Data Processing  

• Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO)  
• Bertelsmann AG  
• Bird & Bird LLP  
• British Telecommunications PLC  
• Business Software Alliance  
• Cancer Research UK  
• Carfax Europe GmbH  
• Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)  
• Conference of Financial Companies in Poland - employers' association (KPF)  
• Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence  
• Danish Consumer Council  
• Data Protection Forum  
• Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammertag (DIHK)
• Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband e.V. (DDV)
• Ericsson European Affairs Office  
• Ernst & Young  
• European Data Protection Round Table (EDPR)  
• European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRi)  
• European Fundraising Association  
• European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA)  
• European Privacy Officers Forum  
• European Privacy Officers Forum (EPOF)  
• Federation of European Direct and Interactive Marketing (FEDMA)  
• FENCA  
• Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP  
• Finance & Leasing Association (FLA)  
• General Medical Council  
• German Association for Data Protection and Data Security  
• HIDE (Homeland Security, Biometric Identification and Personal Detection Ethics, Grant Agreement nr 217762) and RISE (Rising Pan European and International Awareness of biometrics and Security Ethics, Grant Agreement nr 230389) Consortia  
• Industrie- und Handelskammer Frankfurt am Main (IHK)
• In-House Charity Lawyers Group  
• International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)  
• International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP)  
• International Pharmaceutical Privacy Consortium (IPPC)  
• Internet Service Providers Austria (ISPA)  
• Intrum Justitia Group  
• Joint reply by Confederation of Dutch Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW) & the Royal Association for Small and Medium Sized enterprises in The Netherlands (MKB-Nederland)  
• joint reply by Verband Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger (VDZ) and Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger (BDZV)
• Kapsch TrafficCom AG  
• La Confédération Syndicale des Familles (CSF)
• Liberty Global Europe  
• Linklaters LLP  
• McAfee, Inc.  
• National Services Scotland (NHS)  
• NBC Universal  
• Nursing and Midwifery Council  
• Periodical Publishers Association (PPA)  
• Phorm Inc.  
• Privacy International  
• Rackspace US, Inc  
• RIPE NCC  
• SKYPE  
• Telekom Austria TA AG  
• The Global Privacy Alliance  
• The JNT Association (JANET(UK))  
• VODAFONE  
• World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)  
• Yahoo! Europe  

Public Authorities

• Article 29 Working Party & Working Party on Police and Justice  
• Austrian Bar  
• Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
• Bailiwick of Guernsey - Data Protection Office  
• Berliner Beauftragter für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
• Consejo General de la Abogacía Española
• Dutch Government  
• Federal Republic of Germany
• Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)  
• National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB)  
• SÉNATEURS DÉTRAIGNE ET ESCOFFIER
• UK Ministry of Justice  
• Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein