Council of Europe Discusses new Standards of Data Protection

2016-06-30 13:35:32

Tamar Kaldani, the Personal Data Protection Inspector of Georgia, participated in the 33rd plenary meeting of the consultative committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (T-PD). The meeting started on June 29 and lasted until July 1, 2016 in Strasbourg, France.

The draft amending Protocol to Convention 108 and the draft explanatory report to the modernized Convention were overviewed at the meeting. Besides, following draft documents were also discussed: Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data in the World of Big Data; the Use of Personal Data in the Police Sector; Draft Opinion on the Data protection implications of the processing of the Passenger Name Records and Guiding Principles on the Protection of Privacy in Media Coverage. Participants of the meeting have opportunity to express their opinion related to draft documents.

At the Plenary meeting, participants discussed major developments in the field of data protection as well as the report of the Council of Europe's Data Protection Commissioner.

Meanwhile, the members of the bureau of the Consultative Committee were elected within the scope of the T-PD meeting on July 1. Personal Data Protection Inspector of Georgia, Tamar Kaldani, was elected as a member of the T-PD bureau by Committee members.

Membership of the T-PD Bureau is international recognition for the Office of the Personal Data Protection Inspector of Georgia, as well as a strong international platform. It is also one more opportunity for Georgia to participate in the process of creating and developing European rules in the field of personal data protection.

The Office of the Personal Data Protection Inspector has been represented in the T-PD bureau since 2014.