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The Council of Europe is calling for the provision of legal and technical consultancy services in the field of personal data protection in the southern Mediterranean countries.
CALL FOR TENDERS: Legal and technical consultancy in the area of personal data protection in the Southern Mediterranean countries

This call for tender is part of the joint programme between the European Union and the Council of Europe, South Programme V, co-financed by the two organisations and implemented by the Council of Europe.

The activities planned in this context include an analysis of the legislative and institutional frameworks of the southern Mediterranean countries beneficiaries of the Programme and assessment of their needs in terms of protection of personal data, conducting training and awareness-raising activities, the strengthening of institutional capacities and the implementation of networking for countries and personal data protection supervisory in the region.

Interested providers are invited to consult the Terms of reference of the call for tenders and to submit the filled in act of engagement along with the other documents to be provided by email only to the email address indicated in the terms of reference.

 

 The expected start date is 01 May 2023

 The deadline for submission of tenders is 15 April 2023

 

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The South Programme V is a joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe, co-financed by the two organisations and implemented by the Council of Europe.

Strasbourg 23 March 2023
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Conference on Convention 108 + as the global privacy standard, building a free data transfer area while preserving human dignity

Conference on Convention 108 + as the global privacy standard, building a free data transfer area while preserving human dignity

Conference on Convention 108 + as the global privacy standard, building a free data transfer area while preserving human dignity

For 40 years, the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data - Convention 108 – has been the only international legally binding instrument on the protection of privacy and personal data. Its modernised version, Convention 108+, helps preserving human dignity while providing an enabling and secure framework to free flow of data. Read more and listen to the views of prominent personalities.

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You go somewhere, you buy something, you apply for a job, you pay your bills : you live... and at each of those moments of your life, your personal information is used, collected, processed. In order to protect your right to private life, with regard to the automatic processing of your personal data, the Council of Europe elaborated the "Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data".

Thirty years after its entry into force, this Convention still remains the only binding international legal instrument in the field, with a potential worldwide scope of application.

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