Article 98 GDPR

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Article 98 - Review of other Union legal acts on data protection
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Article 98 - Review of other Union legal acts on data protection


The Commission shall, if appropriate, submit legislative proposals with a view to amending other Union legal acts on the protection of personal data, in order to ensure uniform and consistent protection of natural persons with regard to processing. This shall in particular concern the rules relating to the protection of natural persons with regard to processing by Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data.

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Commentary

Article 98 GDPR requires the Commission to favour a uniform and coherent approach to data protection within the European Union. Since data protection affects several different sectors with their own characteristics, the differing provisions regarding data protection should be checked “where appropriate” for coherence with the GDPR. This way, the GDPR can be seen as a benchmark for the protection of personal data in the future. In this regard, the GDPR refers to certain legal instruments that also have to be taken into consideration under Article 98 GDPR.

Examples are the ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EG), that formulates priority of the more specific rules for the processing personal data occurring in the context of electronic communications (see Article 95 GDPR), the e-Commerce Directive (Directive 2000/31/EG), especially in the context of liability and responsibility of hosting, caching and content providers (see Article 2(4) GDPR), the Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (Directive 2003/98/EC amended by Directive 2013/37/EU) regarding documents that are not or only partially accessible for reasons of data protection (see Recital 154 GDPR), the Regulation on Community Statistics on Public Health and Safety at Work (Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008, especially regarding its relevant definitions and the interpretation of “public health” for the GDPR (see Recital 54 sentence 3 GDPR), the Directive on Patients' Rights in Cross-Border Healthcare (Directive 2011/24/EU), regarding personal data processed within healthcare services and patients’ access rights to their files (see Recital 35 sentence 2 GDPR), the Regulation on Clinical Trials on Medicinal Products for Human Use (Regulation (EU) No 536/2014), that provides for special provisions in cases of consent to participation in clinical trials (see Recital 161 GDPR), and the Regulation on European Statistics (Regulation (EC) No 223/2009), with special rules on confidential information that is at the same time personal data (see Recital 163 GDPR).

Decisions

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