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Monitoring cases - OLAF

11
Jul
2007
Opinions Prior Check and Prior Consultations

Monitoring cases - OLAF

Opinion of 11 July 2007 on a notification for prior checking on monitoring cases (Case 2006-548)

OLAF engages in processing of personal data when it opens a Monitoring case. These are cases where OLAF would be competent to conduct an external investigation, but where a Member State or other authority is in a better position to do so.  OLAF main action in such cases consists in monitoring the activities of the national authorities or EU institutions that are responsible for a case in order to ensure that the appropriate judicial or administrative actions are taken to protect the Community's financial interests.  The type of personal information processed by OLAF in these cases includes identification, professional data and information concerning activities related to matters which are the subject of monitoring.  
 

The EDPS has issued an opinion on the processing of personal data in the context of OLAF's Monitoring cases. The Opinion concludes that on a general basis the data processing complies with the principles established in the data protection Regulation. However the EDPS did make some recommendations. Among others, the EDPS asked OLAF to ensure that individuals whose data are processed by OLAF are informed of the data processing that takes place in the context of Monitoring cases. It also suggested some amendments to the privacy statement and asked OLAF to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the necessity of the 20 years conservation period vis-à-vis the purpose of such conservation.

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