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Accidents and occupational disease insurance - Commission

27
Jul
2007

Accidents and occupational disease insurance - Commission

Opinion of 27 July 2007 on a notification for prior checking related to Administration of the Accidents and Occupational Disease Insurance (Case 2007-157)

PMO.3 is responsible, among others, for the management of the Accidents and Occupational Disease Insurance Scheme for officials, temporary and contractual agents of EU institutions ("EU staff members"). This Scheme was established pursuant to Article 73 of the Staff Regulations. In the context of the management of the scheme, PMO 3 must process personal data of EU staff members, including information related to the insured parties' health (reports on accidents and occupational diseases).
 

The EDPS has issued an opinion on the management of the scheme which concludes that on a general basis the scheme complies with the principles established in the data protection regulation.  However the EDPS did make some recommendations mainly as concerns raising awareness among non-medical PMO.3 staff regarding medical secrecy, the need to make more visible the privacy statement in the appropriate web site so that EU staff members are properly informed of the processing of their personal data. The EDPS also suggested that the web site for the scheme should ask EU staff members to send medical reports in sealed envelopes marked with the terms 'confidential' and/or 'to be opened by addressee only' and that guidelines should be issued by PMO 3 in order to ensure that inadequate, irrelevant and non excessive information is not provided in medical reports.

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