Legislation Data Protection

In compliance with Data Protection legislation and the General Medical Council guidelines on confidentiality, the Yellow Card was updated in September 2000 to ask for an identification number for the patient for instance, a practice or hospital number. The CSM no longer asked for personal patient identifiers on Yellow Cards all that is now required is the patient s initials and age instead of their name and date of birth. The inclusion of the identification number enables the patient to be identifiable to the reporter but not to the CSM, thus allowing the reporter to know to whom the report refers for any potential future correspondence. 

Companies must ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times and that data protection legislation is complied with. 

The Commission in consultation with MS has published detailed guidance documents on the application format, documentation to be submitted in an application for an IEC s opinion paying particular attention to the information given to subjects and on appropriate safeguards for the protection of personal data. Some MS already have data protection legislation in place and the reader is encouraged to check this within each MS under consideration. 

One potential area of anomaly may be the way in which data protection laws are applied to on-line services such as those provided via the Internet or World-Wide Web. Some of the challenges for data protection legislation raised by the increased use of online services have been discussed in Section 12.3. Can the provisions of the 1995 directive, which may perhaps be regarded as the current state of the art as far as data protection legislation is concerned, meet these challenges The difficult issues are not so much the cases where the data subject is aware that data has been collected and used or even where this information is made available on the Internet since this is, arguably, the type of activity for which data protection law was designed. Rather the problems, as explained in Section 12.3, are more likely to arise as a consequence of the traceability of operations on-line in situations where the potential data subject may not be aware that... 

This chapter shows that there are a number of issues and concerns for the protection of individual privacy and integrity arising out of the use of computers and computer networks. In relation to privacy and data protection, a detailed regulatory framework has evolved in the European Union and also in a number of states which, though not members of the EU, are members of the Council of Europe or the OECD. In contrast to this the US has, at present, no generic data protection legislation, as such, but instead relies on sectoral self-regulation by means of codes of practice and similar instruments. 

In the body scanning process, there is an implicit link between ownership rights and privacy. Data protection legislation, including data privacy laws have been enacted by many countries throughout the world for two main reasons protection of privacy and ensuring of access by the owner to his information stored in a... 

A specified party must hold or obtain (and maintain) all necessary authorisations, for example, under the UK Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial) Regulations 2004, and sub-ordinate/related legislation, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. 

Under the social security legislation all companies with 10 or more employees are required to keep an accident book in which the occurrence of all accidents should be recorded and which must be retained for 3 years after the date of the last entry. Because the original accident book contained personal data about individuals it has been replaced by a new version that is data protection compliant. This new version only must be in use by 1 January 2004. 

English coimnon law does not know a general right of privacy and Parliament has been reluctant to enact one. But there has been some legislation to deal with particular aspects of the problem. The Data Protection Act 1984, with which this appeal is concerned, is one such statute. 

The Government s intention to legislate on data protection was annotmced in March 1981, when the Home Secretary armounced that the Government would be introducing legislation to provide stamtory protection for personal... 

White Paper Data protection the government s proposals for legislation, Cmnd 8539 1982... 

Article 32 of the Data Protection Directive required that the terms of the directive be implemented not later than three years from the date of adoption, i.e. by 24 October 1998. The Data Protection Act received the Royal Assent in July 1998 but was not brought into force until 1 March 2000 due to the need for approval of a number of crucial pieces of secondary legislation. The new Act retains the same basic stmcture as its predecessor and a state... 

The Data Protection (Notification and Notification Fees) Regulations 2000 SI 2000/188. See http //www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2000/20000188.htm. 

To evaluate the potential risk of Ebro river sediments, the concentrations detected were compared to actual legislation. The WFD does not specifically address sediment management [95]. In contrast to this, the Canadian sediment quality guidelines for the protection of aquatic life [96] provide data for different types of sediments and include 33 compounds, PAHs and DDTs among them. All the PAHs included in the Canadian guidelines are present above the limit, ranging from 3% of the samples for naphthalene to 90% for dibenzo(a,h)anthracene. Special attention has to be paid to benzo(a)pyrene and dibenzo(a,h)anthracene, considered... 

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