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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

 

 

Meeting: 26/03/2018 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 11)

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The Overview and Scrutiny Committee is invited to consider the attached report of the Executive in respect of the General Data Protection Regulation, with a view to submitting any comments to the next meeting of Council.

Reporting Person: Joanne McIntosh

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Minutes:

Jo McIntosh, Solicitor, and Robert Bishop, Graduate Trainee, presented a detailed report on the General Data Protection Regulation which dealt with the principles on which personal data should be processed, the lawful bases on which organisations could rely on and the rights available to individuals.  The report had been considered by the Executive at its meeting on 22 March 2018 and its recommendations – to adopt the new Data Protection Policy and to appoint the Head of Democratic and Legal Services/Monitoring Officer the Authority’s Data Protection Officer – would be presented to Council on 5 April 2018.

It was noted that a training programme for Councillors was being developed by the Local Government Association which would be rolled out to the Borough Councillors in due course.

RESOLVED

That the report be noted.

Meeting: 22/03/2018 - Executive (Item 10)

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Reporting Person – Peter Bryant

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Minutes:

The Executive received a report which set out the progress made by the Council on compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the work still to be carried out before the GDPR came into force in May 2018.  The proposed training for Members was welcomed.  Members thanked Officers for their hard work to enable the Council’s compliance with the GDPR.

Recommended to Council

That  (i)    the progress made on compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation, as well as the need for further work, be noted;

(ii)   the draft new Data Protection Policy be adopted; and

(iii)  Peter Bryant (Head of Democratic and Legal Services/Monitoring Officer) be appointed Data Protection Officer.

Reason:   Consideration of these matters will enable the Council to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation when it comes into force in May 2018.