AGS-EDV Database at JRC-ITU in Karlsruhe - Commission

Opinion of 10 January 2008 on a notification for prior checking on "AGS-EDV Database at JRC-ITU in Karlsruhe" (Case 2007-378)
The Radioprotection Service of the JRC Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU) in Karlsruhe processes health related data of occupationally exposed workers and visitors in accordance with the respective legal obligations laid down in the German Ionising Radiation Protection Regulation implementing Euratom Directives 96/29 and 90/641. The processing operations concern the handling of personal radiation data coming from internal and external dosimetry measurements by two external research centres, as well as the management of the respective database set to detect overexposure to the ionising radiation risks. 

The EDPS recommendations provided in this opinion aim to ensure the full compliance with the Regulation 45/2001 and concern, in particular, the information to be provided to the data subjects, as well as the necessity to comply with the confidentiality and security obligations by all subjects involved in this data processing.