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Strasbourg, 13 February 2013 T-PD-BUR(2013)RAP29Abr

BUREAU OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH REGARD TO AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA [ETS N° 108]

(T-PD-BU)

29^th meeting of the Bureau

Strasbourg, 5 – 7 February 2013
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ABRIDGED REPORT

DG I – Human Rights and Rule of Law

The Bureau of the Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (T-PD-BU) held its 29th meeting in Strasbourg from 5 to 7 February 2013 with Mr Jean-Philippe Walter (Switzerland) in the Chair. The agenda as adopted by the Bureau of the T-PD and the list of participants are set out in Appendices I and II.
The Bureau of the T-PD:

1. took note of information presented by Mr Jan Kleijssen, Director, Information Society and Action against Crime, DGI, on the forthcoming stages in the modernisation process following the adoption of the proposals by the T-PD (29^th plenary meeting, 27 – 30 November 2012), in particular the setting up of an ad hoc committee, and on the major developments since the plenary meeting;

2. examined the draft explanatory report to the modernised version of the Convention and asked the Secretariat to make the necessary changes so that it could be forwarded to delegations and observers at the beginning of March (following the Bureau’s validation of the revised version by written procedure) in order to obtain their written comments and to be able to have those comments in time for the 30^th meeting of the Bureau (28-30 May 2013);

3. took note of information presented with regard to the draft terms of reference of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Data Protection (CAHDATA) and asked the Secretariat to make additions to the draft in order to include, as observers, an extensive list of non-member states and certain international organisations (United Nations, Organization of American States, African Union, Economic Community of West African States, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, APEC) while underlining the necessity to revise the proposed formulation of Article 22 (entry into force) of the modernisation proposals of Convention 108 and asked the Secretariat to organise the modalities of this revision;

4. examined the proposals relating to the mechanism for assessing implementation of the modernised Convention and asked the Secretariat to revise these proposals in the light of the discussions;

5. took note of information presented by the scientific expert, Mr Joseph A. Cannataci, in connection with the report entitled “Recommendation (87)15 – Twenty-five years down the line”, which would be on the agenda of the 30^th plenary session of the T-PD and held an exchange of views on the follow up to this work on the basis of proposals by the expert, who recommended giving consideration to standard-setting work (binding instrument) in this field and also presented his propositions to the members of the Bureau of the Convention Committee on Cybercrime (T-CY);

6. took note of information presented by the scientific expert, Mr Paul De Hert, in connection with the report on the collection and processing of biometric data, which would also be on the agenda of the 30th plenary session;

7. examined the draft questionnaire prepared by the scientific expert to assess the implementation of Recommendation R(97)5 on the protection of medical data and asked the Secretariat to co-ordinate the forthcoming stages in this work, namely finalisation of the questionnaire (on the basis of written comments sent by the participants) and sending of the questionnaire to delegations by the end of April at the latest (deadline for replies - 30 June) so that the scientific expert could submit a draft report in September;

8. examined the draft revised Recommendation on the protection of personal data used for employment purposes and asked the Secretariat to make the proposed changes and to forward the revised version to participants so that it could be sent beginning of April at the latest to delegations and observers for comment beginning of April at the latest (deadline for replies – 10 May) and re-examined at its 30^th meeting;

9. took note of information presented by the Secretariat of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) on the work in progress on the manipulation of sports results and agreed that the Bureau would prepare an opinion on the preliminary draft Convention against manipulation of sports results, which would be submitted to the Drafting Group at its plenary meeting on 20-22 March 2013;

10. took note of information presented by the Secretariat of the Bioethics Committee (DH-Bio) on the committee’s activities in the field of using health related data, including genetic data, for insurance purposes and concerning the research on biological material of human origin and biobanks, as well as future activities on electronic medical file;

11. took note of the invitation to the Kingdom of Morocco to accede to Convention 108 and of the recent adoption in Uruguay of the law ratifying Convention 108, suggesting that this country would shortly be acceding to the Convention;

13. decided to postpone to its 30^th meeting the information items not covered (revision of the document on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights relating to data protection and the Data Protection Day);

14. confirmed that its next meeting would take place from 28 to 30 May 2013 (the 31^st meeting being at present scheduled for 28 to 30 November 2013).

APPENDIX I.

Strasbourg, 05 February 2013 T-PD-BUR 29 (2013)OJ_en

BUREAU OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH REGARD TO AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
[ETS n° 108]

29^th meeting, Strasbourg, Agora room G4

From 5 February 2013 – 9:30 am
to 7 February 2013 – 4 pm

AGENDA

1. Opening of the meeting

2. Adoption of the agenda

3. Statement by the Secretariat

Jan Kleijssen, Director, Information Society and action against crime

4. Modernisation of Convention 108

Scientific Expert: Ms Cécile de Terwangne, Professor Law Faculty, CRID Research Director, Namur University (FUNDP)

Required action: The Bureau will examine the draft explanatory report and will take note of the information provided concerning the evaluation and follow-up mechanism and concerning the ad hoc committee

5. Data protection and Police

Scientific expert: Mr Joseph A. Cannataci, Professor at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, Netherlands

Required action: The Bureau will take note of the information provided by the scientific expert and will decide on the next steps to be taken as regards to this works.

6. Biometrics

Scientific expert: Professor Paul De Hert, Head of the Department Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at Tilburg University, Netherlands

Required action: The Bureau will take note of the information provided by the scientific expert and will decide on the next steps to be taken as regards this work.

7. Protection of medical data

Scientific expert: Mr Joseph A. Cannataci, Professor at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, Netherlands

Required action: The Bureau will take note of the information provided by the scientific expert and will decide on the next steps to be taken as regards this work.

8. Data protection used for employment purposes

Required action: The Bureau will examine the draft revised Recommendation in order to make the necessary changes before its transmission to delegations and observers for comments.

9. Data Protection Day

Required action: The Bureau will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat.

10. Cooperation with other Council of Europe Bodies

Required action: The Bureau will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat.

· Committee on Bioethics (DH – Bio)

· Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) – Sport Conventions Division

Draft International Convention to combat the manipulation of sports results (restricted)

11. State of signatures, ratifications and accession

Required action: The Bureau will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat.

· Overview Convention 108

· Overview additional Protocol

12. Events and data protection activities as well as work of other international organisations and institutions: overview

Required action: The Bureau will take note of the information provided by the Secretariat.

· 6^th CPDP Conference « Computers, Privacy and Data Protection » (23-25 January 2013, Brussels)

· International Conference 'Online Privacy: Consenting to your Future' (21-22 March 2013, Malta)

13. Observers

Required action: The Bureau will take note of the information provided by the observers.

14. Other issues

· European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case law
DP (2013) Case Law

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Draft order of business

APPENDIX II.

Strasbourg, 7 February / février 2013 T-PD-BUR 29(2013)LP(Final)

BUREAU OF THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH REGARD TO AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
[ETS 108]

BUREAU DU COMITE CONSULTATIF DE LA CONVENTION POUR LA PROTECTION
DES PERSONNES A L’EGARD DU TRAITEMENT AUTOMATISE
DES DONNEES A CARACTERE PERSONNEL
[STE n° 108]

(T-PD-BUR)

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

LISTE DES PARTICIPANTS

Strasbourg, 5-7 February / février 2013
Building / bâtiment AGORA
Room / salle 04

DG – I Human Rights and Rule of Law
DG – I Droits de l’Homme et Etat de droit

MEMBERS OF THE BUREAU / MEMBRES DU BUREAU

CZECH REPUBLIC / RÉPUBLIQUE TCHÈQUE
Hana Štĕpánková, [First Vice-chair], Head of the Press Department, Spokeswoman, Office for Personal Data Protection

FRANCE
Catherine Pozzo-di-Borgo, [Seconde Vice-présidente], Commissaire du Gouvernement adjoint auprès de la CNIL, Secrétariat Général du gouvernement

ITALY / ITALIE
Pierruci Alessandra, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali

LUXEMBOURG (apologised/excusé)

PORTUGAL
João Pedro Cabral, Legal Adviser, Directorate General of Justice Policy, Ministry of Justice

SERBIA / SERBIE
Nevena Ružić, Head of Office, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection

SPAIN / ESPAGNE
Agustín Puente Escobar, Director, Agencia Española De Protección De Datos, State Attorney - Head of the Legal department

SWITZERLAND / SUISSE 
Jean-Philippe Walter, [Président], Préposé fédéral à la protection des données et à la transparence (PFPDT), Chancellerie fédérale

OBSERVERS / OBSERVATEURS

TURKEY / TURQUIE
Nurullah Yamali, Counsellor (Rapporteur Judge) / Permanent Representation of Turkey to the CoE

USA / ETATS-UNIS
Evan G. Reade, Consul General, Deputy Permanent Observer to the Council of Europe, Consulate General United States of America

EUROPEAN COMMISSION / COMMISSION EUROPEENNE
Katerina Dimitrakopoulou, Policy Officer, Directorate C: fundamental rights and Union citizenship, Unit C3 Data Protection

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION / CONSEIL DE L’UNION EUROPEENNE
Guy Stessens, Council of the European Union, General Secretariat

EUROPEAN DATA PROTECTION SUPERVISOR (EDPS) / LE CONTRÔLEUR EUROPEEN DE LA PROTECTION DES DONNÉES (CEPD)

Alba Bosch Moline, Legal officer, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)

ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA DEFENSE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME / EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AEDH)
Marise Artiguelong, Déléguée

FRENCH-SPEAKING ASSOCIATION OF PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITIES / ASSOCIATION FRANCOPHONE DES AUTORITÉS DE PROTECTION DES DONNÉES PERSONNELLES (AFAPDP) (apologised/excusé)

INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (ICC) / CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE INTERNATIONALE (CCI) (apologised/excusé)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY COMMISSIONERS / CONFÉRENCE INTERNATIONALE DES COMMISSAIRES À LA PROTECTION DES DONNÉES ET DE LA VIE PRIVÉE (apologised/excusé)

INTERPOL
Caroline Goemans-Dorny, Senior Counsel, I.C.P.O.-INTERPOL

INTERNET SOCIETY / L’INTERNET SOCIETY (ISOC)
Christine Runnegar, Senior Policy Advisor

OTHER PARTICIPANTS / AUTRES PARTICIPANTS

COUNCIL OF EUROPE DATA PROTECTION COMMISSIONER / COMMISSAIRE A LA PROTECTION DES DONNEES DU CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE
Eva Souhrada-Kirchmayer

SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS / EXPERTS SCIENTIFIQUES

Cécile de Terwangne, Professeur à la Faculté de Droit, Directrice de recherche au CRIDS (Centre de Recherches Informatique, Droit et Société), Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP)

Joseph Cannataci, Professor, Chair in European Information & Tech., Department of Business Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Paul de Hert, Professor at Tilburg Institute for Law (TILT), Technology, and Society Tilburg University

SECRETARIAT

DG I – Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law /
DG I - Direction Générale Droits de l’Homme et Etat de Droit

Information Society and Action against Crime Directorate / Direction de la Société de l’Information et de la lutte contre la criminalité

Jan Kleijssen, Director / Directeur

Media, Information Society, Data Protection and Cybercrime Department / Service des médias, de la société de l’information, de la protection des données et de la cybercriminalité

Jan Malinowski, Head of Department / Chef de service

Data Protection and Cybercrime Division / Division de la protection des données et cybercriminalité

Alexander Seger, Head of Division / Chef de Division

Sophie Kwasny, Secretary of the T-PD / Secrétaire du T-PD

Maria Michaelidou, Programme Advisor / Conseillère de programme

Szilvia Simond, Assistant / Assistante


Bioethics Department / Service de la Bioéthique

Laurence Lwoff, Secretary of the DH-BIO / Secrétaire du DH-BIO

DG II. - Directorate general of Democracy
DG II. - Direction générale de la démocratie

Enlarged partial agreement on sport (EPAS) / Accord partiel élargi sur le sport (APES)

Stanislas Frossard, Executive Secretary / Secrétaire exécutif

INTERPRETERS/INTERPRETES

Grégoire Devictor
Derrick Worsdale
Isabelle Marchini