Le marché intérieur permet aux personnes, aux produits, aux services et aux capitaux de circuler librement dans l’UE, offrant de nouvelles opportunités aux citoyens, aux travailleurs, aux entreprises et aux consommateurs, tout en créant les emplois et la croissance dont l’Europe a besoin. La mise en pratique de ces libertés fondamentales au moyen de règles, notamment, sur les services de paiement, les applications logicielles pour le partage des informations (telles que le système d’information du marché intérieur IMI) implique le traitement de données à caractère personnel.
Lettre relative au rapport de la Commission sur la situation en matière de protection des données dans le Système d'information du marché intérieur (IMI)
Avis sur les négociations en cours au sein de l’Union européenne pour un accord commercial anti-contrefaçon (ACAC)
The EDPS has adopted an opinion on current negotiations by the European Union of a multilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) aimed at strengthening the enforcement of intellectual property rights and to combat counterfeiting and piracy.
In the light of the information reported about ACTA, the EDPS has concerns about the potential incompatibility between envisaged measures and data protection requirements.
The EDPS makes a number of recommendations in view of providing guidance to the European Commission on the privacy and data protection related aspects that should be considered in the ACTA negotiations. He stresses in particular that:
the fight against piracy on the Internet should not include large scale monitoring of Internet users through the use of "three strikes Internet disconnection policies" or "graduated response" schemes;
other less intrusive means to fight piracy on the Internet must be investigated or, at least, envisaged policies should be performed at a more limited scope, notably through targeted ad hoc monitoring;
appropriate safeguards must be applied to all international data transfers in the context of ACTA, which should take the form of binding agreements between EU senders and third country recipients;
a public and transparent dialogue must be established on ACTA.
Answer to the letter of the Commission regarding the Commission Recommendation on the data protection guidelines for the Internal Market Information System (IMI), 7 April 2009
Deuxième avis relatif au réexamen de la directive 2002/58/CE concernant le traitement des données à caractère personnel et la protection de la vie privée dans le secteur des communications électroniques (directive "vie privée et communications électroniques"), JO C 128, 06.06.2009, p. 28
This Opinion follows upon a first EDPS Opinion, as well as Comments, in which recommendations were made to help ensure that the proposed changes effectively provide for the best possible protection of personal data.
This Second Opinion comes as a response to the Council's Common Position which, on a number of critical points, fails to endorse some of the data protection safeguards proposed by the European Parliament and the European Commission or previously recommended by the EDPS. The recommendations presented in this Opinion aim at streamlining some of the provisions of the Directive, while at the same time ensuring an adequate level of data protection and privacy.
The Opinion particularly focuses on the provisions relating to the setting up of a mandatory security breach notification system for which the Supervisor believes there is still some room for improvement.
