Italian Data Protection Authority

Organisation name in original language

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Category of human rights structure

Statutory human rights body

Country

Italy

Type(s) of body

Data Protection Authority (DPA)

Address

Piazza Venezia 11, 00187 Rome

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Legal source(s)

  • Established by Law No 675 of 31 December 1996 and later reformed by Legislative Decree No 196 of 30 June 2003 (the Personal Data Protection Code), before being further reformed by Legislative Decree No 101 of 10 August 2018.

Human rights capacity support

Not applicable

Functions

  • Oversight
  • Providing remedy
  • Performing promotional activities
  • Other

Specific mandates

  • Any other function under international human rights conventions, under EU legislation or under the national legal system

Structured cooperation with partners at national level

  • Presents a report of its activities to the Italian parliament and government each year.
  • Points out, to parliament and other bodies and institutions, the need to adopt regulatory and administrative laws relating to personal data protection issues.

Structured cooperation with partners at international and EU level

  • Carries out supervisory and support activities regarding the Visa Information System (VIS) and the European Asylum Dactyloscopy Database (Eurodac).
  • Contributes to the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation’s monitoring at the national level.
  • Participates in the European Data Protection Board.
  • Cooperates with the Council of Europe’s Data Protection Committee, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Working Party on Information Security and Privacy, the International Working Group on Data Protection in Technology and the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program.

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