On 13 July 2022, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Aloisia WÖRGETTER, Permanent Representative of Austria to the Council of Europe, deposited, in the presence of the Deputy Secretary General Bjørn Berge, the instrument of ratification of the Protocol amending the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (CETS No. 223), known as Convention 108+, bringing the number of ratifications to 18.
The Protocol aims to modernise and improve the Convention 108, the only binding international instrument with global relevance in this field. It addresses the new challenges to the protection of privacy resulting from the use of new information and communication technologies having emerged since the adoption of the Convention in 1980.
The Protocol also constitutes a bridge between different regions of the world and different normative frameworks, including the new European Union’s legislation in the context of transborder data flows.
More information:
- Protocol amending the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (CETS No. 223)
- Council of Europe’s work in the field of data protection
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