The Professional Statute of the Data Protection Officer
17 Pages Posted: 4 May 2022
Date Written: May 4, 2022
Abstract
The role of the data protection officer, although referred to by Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995, has been clarified and strengthened in the new legal framework established by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, which sets out the rules on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
In this sense, we intend with our study to offer an analysis of the professional statute of the data protection officer, based on the analysis of the deontological principles governing the profession and the risks inherent in its exercise, in order to encourage reflection on the relevance of the creation of an associative structure representative of the profession, able to control access to and the exercise of the profession, to elaborate technical standards, deontological principles and rules and to create an autonomous disciplinary regime.
Keywords: Data Protection Officer, GDPR, Deontological Code, Professional Statute
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